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500 programs

are not fulfilled every day;

and

being the absolute leader of television, much less.

However,

can proudly wear (and celebrate) both.

Yes, today is the day: today

celebrates its

and it does so by remaining the leader and crowning itself as the most watched program on television.

During these 500 deliveries, the

space has maintained an average audience

and 2,512,000 viewers, being the absolute first option in its time slot.

More than enough reasons to throw the house out the window and celebrate it in style.

In recent weeks, the possibility of

broadcasting the special program of the

this Thursday in

and thus competing with the premiere of

was toyed with .

However,

has made the best possible decision: if something works where it is and how it is, what need is there to change it?

So what

has done is to bring to its program 500 the duel par excellence, that of the last two winners of the long-awaited jackpot of

:

and

.

But to think that a single program, a single duel does not have its well-kept secrets and does not have the preparation that

deserves is to be wrong about all of them.

knows that well

: "When I finished the program I stopped studying at the rate I was studying. I also focused more on the master's degree I was studying. But when they told me I was going to compete I went back to study. I have prepared myself just like when I was on the program," he confesses to EL MUNDO.

The epic duel of Pablo Díaz and Sofía Álvarez in Pasapalabra

Pablo Díaz

managed to complete

de

in July of last year, taking home

.

A few months later,

responded correctly to the 25 letters of

and won

a jackpot of

Two champions for a duel that is not only expected but promises to be epic.

"I feel super happy because after all, having been on the show for so long, so long last year, it gave me

a little bit of pain to leave. Being able to return, return to the set and see everyone from

It makes me very happy. And on top of that, being with a contestant of the stature of Sofía! It is a very nice experience and I really wanted to, "says

.

Both contestants have some exceptional companions this afternoon for this special installment.

, director and host of Antena 3 Noticias 1,

, presenter of

,

, presenter of laSexta Noticias 14H, and

, director of

en Antena 3, who will be in charge of accumulating seconds during the first part of the program.

No matter how successful they are both, the pressure of returning to

and facing each other in a single duel has made both

and

immerse themselves in the books, dictionaries and techniques that they already used at the time to win the boat of

.

"I have a series of notes on my mobile, with a lot of vocabulary from a sieve that I did back then, when I participated, but also with a lot of general concepts, Geography, History... I'm studying it with a series of mnemonic rules, with some study patterns, to be fresh for the program. I hope it has caught on...", says Pablo Díaz with a laugh.

But

is not going to leave her participation in this special program to chance.

During her time at

, she beat her opponents 26 times, tied 18 times, hit 1,363 words in total at

and beat 18 blue chairs.

All of this in the 62 shows it took her to hit the jackpot.

"These have been troubled times, of a lot of learning and experiences. I have continued studying as usual, combining it with my work as a psychiatrist," he explained on his Instagram account about these months after winning the jackpot.

Indeed

has continued to study and prepare.

Her way of studying the dictionary, according to what she herself has said, is not in order of letters - "it would be deadly boring, she would never complete it and she would forget some as she learned others" - but, in addition to seeing an infinity of

, "I look at definitions of many common words, to familiarize myself with the style of the RAE".

"I was writing down words with short and clear definitions (for example, Male Salmon: BICAL, or Cave made on the side of a mountain: TUDA), I was looking through thematic groups with DIRAE (for example, terms related to wine or sheep) , or words that end with t (this can be done in the RAE application). I tried to vary so as not to get bored and if you get tired of the words, you can go to African capitals or South American currencies," he revealed.

In other words, participating in

is not just a game.

It might seem that today, with a single duel between the two, that of preparing thoroughly would have passed to other tasks.

But with

and

it cannot be like that.

They love the format so much and they feel so much of

that despite being a single program they prepare as if they were once again playing for the jackpot of almost two million that

won or the one of almost 500,000 euros that

won .

Pasapalabra, the cross of Telecinco

But the duel between

and

will not be the only surprise that the celebration of the

will bring .

For the first time,

has played

placing himself on the other side.

And, to make it even more historic, it was Pablo Díaz who read the questions to him.

A moment that can now be seen exclusively on the Antena 3 website and in which

has surprised.

finished the first round with 22 hits and still 30 seconds on the scoreboard to hit the three letters he had left, G, S and U.

, he said between laughs.

And boy did he take it.

But the feat of

or the epic duel between

and

is not the only one in

.

The Antena 3 program has been climbing progressively since its arrival on the network, rising almost 7 points since its premiere and achieving the leadership of the afternoons for

.

On December 19, 2019, it was made public that

had reached an agreement with

, producer of

, for the broadcast of the successful format from 2020. But it was not until May 13 that the contest saw the light of day. new on Antena 3. The legal battle that ended on October 1, 2019 with

stopping broadcasting

marked a before and after for both networks.

's goodbye

to

was the first in a long succession of blows.

While for

the arrival of

It was the first tile of a path of success that has not stopped growing since then, until it has been the most watched channel for several months.

It could be said that it all started with

.

It is also crowned the most watched program on television this season and king of the golden minute, achieving the most watched minute on television on 359 occasions since its return to

.

In fact, the success of

is the cross of

, especially of

, which since the arrival of

to

has not been able to raise its head.

So far in April,

maintains the second best historical distance against its competitor, with an advantage of more than

in its slot.

In addition, it manages to reach an average of 4.5 million unique viewers each day in these

.

Since that May 13,

has accumulated no less than 205 consecutive wins, which would have reached almost 430 if it had not been for football.

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