Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón from Rioja wins the ‘El Cazador Stars’ jackpot

On May 15, it was the Alfareno Moisés Laguardia who monopolized the television spotlight by having to abandon ‘Pasapalabra’ after 245 programs in which he accumulated a prize of 162,000 euros, but he was unable to win the 1.8 million jackpot he won. Oscar Diaz. This time, the Riojan who has monopolized the small screen has been the professor from the University of La Rioja Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, who together with three teammates has won this Thursday the 86,000 euro jackpot from ‘El Cazador Starts’

Sáenz de Cabezón (Logroño, 1972), professor of Computer Languages ​​and Systems at the UR, is also a scientific disseminator, founder of the group Big Van Ciencia and presenter of Órbita Laika (La2 on RTVE). Together with Santi Rodríguez and the brothers Juanma and Mikel López Iturriaga, he has obtained a prize, to be distributed among the four

The Riojan has been participating in ‘El Cazador Stars’ since Wednesday, May 29. This Thursday he competed against the hunter Lilit Manukyan (The Spy). And with them he has obtained 86,000 euros (21,500 for each one) which, in his case, will go to the Rioja Association of Friends of Western Sahara. The other groups that will receive the money are the Jaén Down Syndrome Association (Santi), the Aenilce Foundation (Juanma) and the Triángulo Foundation (Mikel).

‘El Cazador Stars’ is a version of the RTVE program ‘El Cazador’r with famous contestants presented by Rodrigo Vázquez. Since April it has had a new dynamic in which, in the first phase of open questions answered during the initial minute, 200 euros are added for each correct answer. In the second phase, if you manage to escape from the hunter, the money played is now yours.

In the final hunt, the contestants who have not been hunted play for the program’s jackpot, which starts at 20,000 euros and increases by 3,000 per program in the Stars version.