David Trigo has turned the new Pasapalabra duel into a contest with a statistical edge for the Barcelona contestant. Since Moisés Laguardia took the position left by Javier Alonso, they have faced each other in 24 episodes: Trigo has prevailed in 12, Laguardia in five, and the remaining seven ended in draws.
The balance, updated after the broadcast on Friday, October 9, depicts a lopsided competition in wins, though not an absolute superiority in every episode. Trigo wins half of the confrontations in this stage, while Laguardia has managed to prevail in a little more than a fifth.
What the numbers really say about the duel
The difference between them lies not only in the number of victories. Of the 24 episodes contested during the last month, David Trigo has emerged victorious in 50%, compared to 20.8% for Moisés Laguardia. Draws account for the remaining 29.2%.
That distribution allows separating two ideas that can be confused: Trigo dominates the balance of this matchup, but the duel has not always been resolved with a wide margin. Nearly one in three episodes ended without a clear winner between the two contestants.
The most recent victory came after Trigo completed AlaZ with 22 correct answers and no mistakes. Laguardia, by contrast, was penalized by an error on the J letter, a stumble that tipped the program in favour of the Barcelona contestant.
Javier Alonso’s departure changed the makeup of the competition
The current duel began after Javier Alonso’s voluntary departure for personal reasons, announced by Roberto Leal at the start of the program. Laguardia then took his place in the competition and joined a dynamic already established around Trigo.
The most visible consequence of that change is that the results of this month cannot be read as a general ranking among all contestants. They are, specifically, the balance of the phase started with Laguardia’s return, who is also facing Pasapalabra for the second time.
Laguardia’s five wins have a concrete regulatory effect: they allow him to start the next program on the orange team. It’s not a cumulative prize nor a guarantee of victory, but it does modify the starting point of the next installment against the blue team.
The money accumulated does not track the same journey
The monetary gap between them is much larger than that reflected by their direct confrontations. Trigo has accumulated 73,800 euros in 132 episodes, while Laguardia has tallied 10,200 euros in this second phase.
The distance stands at 63,600 euros, but the comparison needs context: they do not carry the same number of episodes nor are they at the same point in their trajectories. Therefore, the money accumulated serves to show Trigo’s prolonged dominance in the contest, not to calculate their performance under equal conditions.
The prize pot, for its part, will stand at 1,144,000 euros in the next installment, within the current stage of the competition on Antena 3. That amount belongs to the race for the final prize and does not alter the balance of victories between the two contestants.
A streak of more than 40 episodes in “Where Are They?”
The other relevant data about Trigo lies in Where Are They?, the challenge in which contestants must locate nine hidden words in a 3-by-3 grid.
The Barcelona native has chained more than 40 consecutive episodes completing this phase. The streak is not entirely individual: in one of those episodes he needed the help of guest Jorge Garbajosa to reach the solution.
The latest stumble dates back to mid-August. On that occasion, the turn returned to Trigo with barely ten seconds left and the clock ran out before he could complete the answer.
A clear dominance, but there is still room for the duel
The data offer a precise snapshot of the moment in Pasapalabra: Trigo controls the balance of victories, accumulates a financial lead built over many more episodes, and maintains a notable streak in one of the format’s tests.
Laguardia, however, has not been left out of the fight. His five wins and seven draws show that the new duel is not reduced to a sequence of victories by the Barcelona contestant. The next installment will again test the distribution of teams and the possibility of cutting the distance which, for now, is clear in the figures.
