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JOSEPH Mwangi and Fenton Odhiambo from, Dar es Salaam became the first Kenyan winners on the Guinness Football Challenge last night. Fighting off tough competition from the other teams from Tanzania and Uganda, as well as the two-time-winners from last week’s show, the dynamic duo showed great skill and knowledge to win big cash prizes in the not-to-be-missed TV game show phenomenon.
In the first round, Picture Trivia and Free Kick, the Kenyan and Ugandan teams, along with last week’s winning team, all scored well, meaning the Tanzanian team was the first to leave this week’s show. Round 2 saw the three teams clock close scores in the Formation Round, with the Kenyan team just in the lead giving them five balls going into the Bullseye Challenge, which was demonstrated by Kalusha Bwalya.
The skill contestants excelled in this challenge, scoring some great points and putting themselves in first place going into the semi final with last week’s winners in second, leaving the Ugandan team to say goodbye.
The semi final was closely fought with the two teams evenly matched on scores, meaning they faced a tiebreak question to determine who had the chance to play the Guinness® Money Wall. Despite last week’s winners rushing in first, they got their answer wrong and it was the Kenyan team through to the final and responsible for knocking the two-time-winners off the top spot.
The Guinness® Money Wall was topped up with the rollover money from last week’s show putting a USD58K up for grabs. The brain put in an impressive performance answering all his questions correctly, and despite a shaky start, his partner hit three of the targets in quick succession, giving them an impressive USD12K to take home. They will be back again next week to face three new teams and see if they can win even more cash!
Hosted by Larry Asego and Flavia Tumusiime, the Guinness Football Challenge TV show celebrates East Africa’s passion for football in the definitive fan test. In each show, contestants face a variety of exciting new challenges as they have to work together showing team-work and knowledge of the game in this definitive but fun fan test – three elimination rounds of knowledge and physical skills games that will lead to the best team each week playing in the Final Round where they can risk it all to win big cash prizes.
Each week, the winning team from the previous show will return to take on three new sets of challengers and see if they have what it takes to win two in a row. The season will culminate in a best of the best episode with four of the best teams from the series going head to head to be crowned champion of champions and increase their winnings.
The Season Finale will see the four football stars, who have appeared throughout the series, take part in the Guinness Football Challenge themselves. Jay Jay Okocha, Marcel Desailly, Rigobert Song and Kalusha Bwalya will be partnered with the top scoring consumers who have been planning the Guinness Football Challenge mobile game, who will have the chance to demonstrate their football knowledge to the nation. Make sure you play the game at m.guinnessvip.com to be in with a chance of starring in the show.
The Guinness Football Challenge, produced by Endemol, will be broadcast on ITV every Wednesday 9:00pm so make sure you grab a bottle of ice cold Guinness and tune in to be part of the action.
Please remember to drink responsibly, strictly 18+.