The Challenge Festival is scheduled to premiere December 15-19, 2021 at present.ĭuring the entire weekend, the Event Summon replaces the Elemental Summon, bringing along special event heroes unique to each event. Each will have unique effects and it's specific heroes for that level of the challenge. Starting in December 2021 the first 5 Challenge Events will be retired individually and then rolled up together into a Challenge Festival where each event now becomes 2 levels of 10 in the Rare, Epic and Legendary portions of the event. It begins on the 2nd Wednesday of the month and continues through the weekend, and rotates through six possible events in the order listed below, beginning in January 2019: Got a great team coming in and we got to do what we got to do for our family and friends and the Albany community.There are Seasonal Events, Tower Events and Challenge Events. “Got to finish up what we started, and it’s not done yet. “We respect those guys but we don’t fear anything,” Sesay said. Albany is 0-3 against Carolina this season. The Empire will host the Carolina Cobras, who beat the Columbus Lions 65-51 in the other playoff game. “This is no different than the fourth game of the season. “We don’t change because of the level of importance of the game,” he said. With two weeks before the championship, Menas has given his team the week off just as he would for any other bye week. So being able to do it consecutively, it’s just no words to explain it.” “Each time going is always a beautiful thing,” Sesay said.
It’s Sesay’s third, because he played for the Arena Football League Empire when they won the ArenaBowl in 2019. I really don’t care about June and May and April,” Menas said. Similarly, the Empire ended their losing streak at Columbus on June 26 and haven’t lost since. Menas described Orozco’s performance as “great,” adding, “I wish he wouldn’t have waited till the fourth quarter and give me a heart attack.” Orozco hit a deuce with under a minute left, and the Sharks ran out of time for a comeback. “We got in a little bit of a dog fight there, but nobody gave up, nobody thought negative at one point in time,” Sesay said. Prince had seven catches for 99 yards and four touchdowns. The Empire offense had a short field after Jacksonville attempted an onside kick, and Castronova took it in for another touchdown, then found wide receiver Darius Prince in the end zone for the two-point conversion. Do you go backwards, or do you make a major play after that?” lineman Brandon Sesay said. “It’s about what do you do after that type of play. “I think we have to figure out some things still on the back end of our defense.” “Obviously, we have room for improvement,” coach Tom Menas said. “I knew that we would get the ball back, go down and score.”Īlbany’s defense allowed Sharks quarterback Arvell Nelson to throw a touchdown pass to wide receiver Milton Williams, but forced an incomplete pass on the two-point conversion to trail by just 59-58 with a minute left. “They all had faith in me,” Castronova said.
Kicker Marc Orozco hit the extra point and sent the ball through the uprights on the kickoff for a deuce (two points) to put Albany ahead 58-53.
“We knew what we had, we knew we just had to execute a little bit better,” Castronova said of the mid-season struggles.Īfter the Sharks scored, Castronova threw a pass to wide receiver Aaron Wascha for the first down, then ran the ball in for a touchdown.