Amazon seeks 'Call of Duty-est Town'

The hype surrounding Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 keeps heating up.

After Gamestop announced last week a $40 trade credit for those who preorder the game and bring it back to a Gamestop store by December 13, Amazon.com has launched a competition, dubbed "The Call of Duty-est Town in America." The contest is seeking the town or city with the most preorders of Modern Warfare 2.

According to Amazon, any town or city with a population of 5,000 or more can compete. It determined population size using the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data.

Whenever a person preorders Modern Warfare 2 from Amazon, the location is tallied. The goal for each location is to have the highest percentage of preorders. Realizing that population plays a role in those figures, the number of orders doesn't factor into the competition.

Amazon said on its contest page that it will give a $5,000 gift certificate to a charity that serves the winning town. If the competition had ended at the time of this writing, the winner would be Grand Forks, N.D.

The page also features some interesting information about those preorders. As of this writing, the Xbox 360 version of the game accounted for 61 percent of Amazon preorders. The PlayStation 3 and the PC versions captured 31 percent and 8 percent of the preorders, respectively.

"The Call of Duty-est Town in America" competition ends on the game's release day, November 10. The winning town will be announced that day.

[xmaster_dosx]

its intresting that 61% of the preorders are on the 360. I preordered mine from gamestop for the 360.

[1hunid]

Im guessing there is such a big difference in the percentage leaning towards 360 users because of the special relationship that Infinity Ward and Microsoft have. Ive seen some trailers where they made it clear that they have a good partnership. I bought it for the 360 as well but will also buy it for the PS3 later.

[punisher1001]

This would explain why every time I play on XBOX Live everyone sounds like there from the the south. There also seems to be a correlation between boring States and video gaming.

[stanorlaski]

So let me get this straight punisher1001, your just a boring person in an "exciting" state? Or just a person in an "excited state" that plays boring video games?

Personally, most of the nitwits on XBL are 12 yr old Brits.