Celtel Africa Challenge Totally Explained

Everything about Celtel Africa Challenge totally explained

Celtel Africa Challenge is a televised academic competition for students of East African universities. The programme is an extension of Celtel’s corporate social responsibility initiative known as “Making Life Better”. It is produced by Richard Reid, who also produces College Bowl and Honda Campus All-Star Challenge in the United States.
Celtel Africa Challenge is hosted by John Sibi-Okumu.

Game Format

Celtel Africa Challenge is a question and answer game played between two teams of three players each. The game is played in four rounds. The first three rounds are called Face-Off Rounds. The fourth round is called the Ultimate Challenge.

Face-Off Rounds

In each of these rounds, there are two types of questions: Face-Offs, worth 10 points each and Bonuses, worth 20 points. In each of the three Face-Off rounds, a different player represents the team answering Face-Off questions. That player is the only one who can answer for his or her team.
On Face-Offs, after the entire question is read, the first player to signal gets to answer. If s/he answers correctly, the team gets a Bonus question. If s/he answers wrong, the player representing the other team gets a chance to answer the Face-Off. If that player answers correctly, his or her team gets the Bonus. Bonuses are played by the entire team.
In each Face-Off round, there are four new categories. In each category there are four Face-Off questions. Each Face-Off has a related Bonus question. The last player to correctly answer a Face-Off selects the category for the next Face-Off.

Ultimate Challenge

At the end of the three Face-Off rounds the teams play the Ultimate Challenge. The team that’s behind goes first. If there’s a tie, there's a coin toss and the team that wins decides if it wants to go first or last. Each team gets a turn to play the Ultimate Challenge. There are four new categories from which to choose. When it’s a team’s turn to play, the players confer and select the category. Once a category is selected it's no longer available.
   In the Ultimate Challenge, the team has 60 seconds to answer 10 questions. The questions are read rapid-fire one after the other. Team members can confer on answers. Any team member may call out an answer. The first answer heard by the moderator is the one that will be accepted. As long as there's time remaining, teams can keep coming back to questions which they missed or on which they passed.
   If a team answers all 10 questions correctly it scores 500 points. As a reward for its perfect score, each team member receives a $500USD Bonus. Even if the first team to play the Ultimate Challenge doesn't take the lead in the game, the second team plays the Ultimate Challenge because the team members have a chance to win the Bonus money.
   The team with the most points at the end of the Ultimate Challenge wins the game.

Grants and Prizes

Celtel provides grants to the 16 participating universities and to the students who represent the universities at the Celtel Africa Challenge Championship Festival.
Universities who participate in the first-round of the knockout competition receive $5,000USD and each player receives $500USD.
As the competition progresses the monetary and other grants increase:

Quarter-final universities receive $10,000USD and each player receives $1,000USD
Semi-final universities receive $15,000USD and each player receives $1,000USD plus $500USD in educational materials
The runner-up university receives $25,000USD and each player receives $1,000USD plus $1,500USD in educational materials
The champion university receives $50,000 and each player receives $1,000USD plus $3,500USD in educational materials

In addition, players who teams sweep the Ultimate Challenge round in any televised match receive a $500USD per person bonus.

Tournament Results

Season 1

Opening Rounds

Match	Winners	Eliminated
1	Moi University	Ndejje University
2	United States International University	Tumaini University
3	University of Nairobi	Catholic University of East Africa
4	University of Dar es Salaam	Zanzibar University
5	Kenyatta University	Mbarara University of Science & Technology
6	Egerton University	Islamic University of Uganda
7	Mzumbe University	Makerere University
8	Nkumba University	Sokoine University of Agriculture

Quarterfinals

Match	Winners	Eliminated
9	Moi University	Nairobi University
10	Kenyatta University	Mzumbe University
11	United States International University	University of Dar es Salaam
12	Egerton University	Nkumbe University

Semifinals

Match	Winners	Eliminated
13	Kenyatta University	Moi University
14	Egerton University	United States International University

Finals

Match	Winners	Eliminated
15	Egerton University	Kenyatta University

Season 2

The second season of the Celtel Africa Challenge will air between February and May 2008.

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