Celtel Africa Challenge Season 2

The Celtel Africa Challenge Season 2 was the second season of telecommunications company Celtel's round-based competition involving universities from Eastern and Southern Africa. Like the first season, the second season was hosted by John Sibi-Okumu.

Preliminaries edit

Kenya edit

With the change from automatic selection for universities, sixteen Kenyan universities were entered into the preliminary elimination round, held in the University of Nairobi on 1 November 2007. The universities were:

After the elimination process and seeding, Strathmore were seeded first, Egerton second, Kenyatta University third and Moi University fourth. The seeded universities proceed to the competition, held in January 2008.

Uganda edit

Eleven Ugandan Universities fielded teams to the national competition, held at. These were:

The eventual winners and representatives of Uganda at the international competition were Makerere University, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Nkumba University and Uganda Christian University.

Tanzania edit

Ten Tanzanian universities took part in the national competition to select the country's representatives to the international competition. These were:

The teams that qualified were the University of Dar es Salaam, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Sokoine University of Agriculture and Saint Augustine University of Tanzania.

Malawi and Zambia edit

The 2008 challenge sees the entry of universities from Malawi and Zambia. The number of teams entered in the international competition remains the same, with the format changing to include two teams from either country.

Malawi edit

The University of Malawi and Mzuzu University were selected for the two slots available for Malawi.

Zambia edit

Eight universities competed for the two slots available for Zambian universities. Among them were:

From these, the universities that advanced to the international competition were the University of Zambia and Copperbelt University.

Competition results edit

Opening Rounds edit

Match	Winners	Eliminated
1	Hubert Kairuki Memorial University	Makerere University
2	Kenyatta University	Saint Augustine University of Tanzania
3	Copperbelt University	Moi University
4	Egerton University	University of Dar es Salaam
5	Strathmore University	Mzuzu University
6	University of Malawi	Uganda Christian University
7	Nkumba University	University of Zambia
8	Sokoine University of Agriculture	Mbarara University

Quarter-final edit

Match	Winners	Eliminated
9	Kenyatta University	Hubert Kairuki Memorial University
10	Egerton University	Copperbelt University
11	University of Malawi	Strathmore University
12	Nkumba University	Sokoine University of Agriculture

Semi-final edit

Match	Winners	Eliminated
13	Egerton University	Kenyatta University
14	Nkumba University	University of Malawi

Final edit

Match	Winners	Eliminated
15	Egerton University	Nkumba University

External links edit

Celtel Africa Challenge official site of the Celtel Africa Challenge
[1] Results table and air dates for Season 2
Celtel official site of the sponsor, Celtel
Richard Reid TV, Producers of CAC