Briefly: As a big fan of AFK‘s first season, I’m now really looking forward to every Monday this month.

Once again, the world’s greatest gamers have stepped away from their keyboards to find out how they will fare in challenges including skydiving, a massive paintball battle, and parkour.

It’s the first-ever original travel competition starring some of the world’s most renowned YouTube gaming influencers, AFK season 2 features elite YouTubers and Call of Duty legends including The Minecraft Project creator TheSyndicateProject and TmarTn. The competition is once again hosted by Inside Gaming’s Bruce Greene.

In AFK Season 2, the stakes have been raised as the destination is San Diego Comic Con 2014. Showing no fear, our intrepid YouTubers skydive over the Las Vegas Strip, parkour in Los Angeles, and lead 200 fans in a paintball domination match at Camp Pendleton. All of that is just the appetizer to the season finale, which takes place at Comic-Con.

You can take a look at episode one below. Be sure to check back next Monday (and the Monday following) for episodes two and three! Don’t forget to let us know what you think! A third season is already in the works, so there should be plenty more AFK coming down the pipeline.

http://youtu.be/fPh9tTGNd5Q

Here are the synopsis’ for the season:

Episode 1
Location: Las Vegas.
Challenges:  Skydive over the Las Vegas Strip, mini Baja dune buggy chase in the desert.

Episode 2
Location: Los Angeles.
Challenges: Tempest Freerunning Academy puts our YouTubers through a rigorous training session and then sets them off on a parkour time trial and style competition.

Episode 3
Location: Camp Pendleton and San Diego.
Challenges: COD skills are put to the test in real life in a massive paintball match of domination, capture the flag, and one v. one. Then, it’s off to San Diego Comic Con to wrap the season.

Briefly: Machinima is at it again, this time with a hilarious unscripted series called AFK.

According to the show’s description, “Pulling the world’s greatest gamers away from the keyboard to find out how they will fare in a real-life demolition derby or roller derby bootcamp is no easy task. That is exactly what Machinima, in association with GEICO, has done in the first-ever original travel competition starring some of the biggest YouTube gaming influencers”

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? Hosted by Bruce Greene, host and producer of Machinima’s INSIDE GAMING, one of YouTube’s most popular daily gaming news shows, the first season of AFK brings the Minecraft Universe center stage as YouTube Minecraft Legends MINECRAFTUNIVERSE and Jerome ASF battle each other in a wide range of events including competing in a real-life demolition derby in Dallas, TX, battling it out for Supremacy in a GTA 5 flash-gaming challenge, a Trials Evolution flash-gaming challenge, and a real-life roller derby bootcamp in Austin, TX.

There are three seasons of AFK currently in the works, so if you like what you see here, there’s plenty more coming down the pipeline. Take a look at the series’ first episode below, and let us know what you think!

http://youtu.be/aoanxwPKHUQ