Celtel Africa Challenge Season 2

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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[]

Kenya[]

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, to be held in January 2008.

Uganda[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

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

Zambia[]

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[]

Opening Rounds[]

Match Winners Eliminated
1 Hubert Kairuki Memorial University Makerere University
2 Kenyatta University
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[]

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[]

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

Final[]

Match Winners Eliminated
15 Egerton University Nkumba University

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