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Home / Articles / News / Local NEWS / Athens ends up in 7th place for ordering popular computer game
Thursday, November 19,2009
Athens ends up in 7th place for ordering popular computer game
While the city of Athens led the nationwide competition in late October, our community ultimately slid to seventh place in the competition to become the "œCall of Duty-est Town in America."
The contest, led by Amazon.com, hoped to generate excitement for the release of the Modern Warfare 2 game, by finding which community had the most pre-orders for the video game before its release on Nov. 9.
Amazon said it would award a $5,000 Amazon.com gift card to a charity serving the town with the highest percentage of pre-orders among its population.
The winning town was announced by Amazon shortly after midnight on Nov. 9.
First place wound up being Independence, Mo., with second through 10th place, in order, Missoula, Mont., Dubuque, Iowa, Rocklin, Calif., Brookings, S.D., Urbana, Ill., Athens, Ohio, Flagstaff, Ariz., Bloomington, Minn., and Bozeman, Mont.
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