Amazon Seeks "Call of Duty-est" Town in America

Amazon’s pitting city against town against village in a promotion to see which American municpality orders the most copies of Modern Warfare 2 with release-date delivery. They’ve got a top 40 board up, which Stillwater, Okla. currently leads.

The criteria: Amazon’s cutoff are towns and cities with a population over 5,000 (according to the most current census data), and they have to order “enough copies for two squads (18 people) using Release-Date Delivery.” The ranking is based on per capita orders, not whole numbers. Winning city gets a $5,000 Amazon gift card donated to a charitable organization serving that area.

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