Tasha Fox may be one of the favorites to win coming into CBS's Survivor: Cambodia.

Tasha is one of 20 players selected by America to have a second chance of playing Survivor. Originally playing in Survivor: Cagayan, Tasha would quickly become a fan favorite with the audience and made it deep into the game. While she has a reputation of being a good player, she could still excel when she plays Survivor: Cambodia - Second Chance, the upcoming season.

In Cagayan, Tasha was stuck on the dysfunctional "Brains" tribe, which had one of the worst starts for a tribe in Survivor history. However, she was in a power position during her 12 days on the "Brains" tribe, and made it to the tribe swap with Kass McQuillen and Spencer Bledsoe. All three were swapped into Aparri where they surprisingly turned into the power players. They would all make it to the merge.

At the merge, Tasha was in a tight alliance with Kass, Spencer, Jeremiah Wood, Morgan McLeod and Sarah Lacina. However, Sarah was giving mixed vibes to Kass, which caused the latter to flip on all of them and send Sarah out of the game. With Kass now working with Jefra Bland, LJ McKanas, Tony Vlachos, Trish Hegarty and Woo Hwang, Tasha was in the minority alliance. They would lose another member in Morgan.

Now at a significant disadvantage, Tasha pulled out three clutch Immunity wins in a row, solidifying herself as a huge physical threat. Tony and Woo flipped to work with them in voting out LJ, leaving Jefra, Kass and Trish blindsided. Tony and Woo would then go back to them and vote out Jeremiah, but then flip again to vote out Jefra.

At the Final 6, Tasha and Spencer were on their own against a four person alliance. Spencer won the Immunity Challenge and Tasha was sent home.

Going into Cambodia, Tasha has the clout of being one of the most popular players from Cagayan and one of the most popular female players in recent history. She is a triple threat in that she has a strategic sense, a good social game and a knack for challenges.

Depending on what tribe she is placed on, Tasha's positivity in camp should lead to her getting into a strong majority alliance, especially since she is one of the strongest females in the whole cast. This should allow her to last through the pre-merge barring any surprise swap.

After the merge, Tasha may run into trouble if she is in the minority alliance. Her status as a physical threat will make everyone want to target her early. It's also possible that she could be seen as a leader type compared to other females like Monica Padilla or Kelley Wentworth, making her stand out more as a target.

Cambodia Prediction: Tasha should do fine through the pre-merge but she will need to have the right allies in order to get to the end. One of her flaws in Cagayan was not assuring that all of her alliance was happy, so if she learns from her mistakes she could make it to the end. However, we think she'll be seen as too big of a threat and be voted out early jury.

We predict: 11th place.

Previous Cast Assessments:

Kelly Wiglesworth (Borneo)
Kimmi Kappenberg (The Australian Outback)
Peih-Gee Law (China)
Monica Padilla (Samoa)
Abi-Maria Gomes (Philippines)
Ciera Eastin (Blood vs. Water)

Survivor: Cambodia - Second Chance premieres Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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Survivor, Reality TV, CBS