Many active-duty service members and Veterans play video games to relax, connect and have fun. Esports, short for electronic sports, is also a growing phenomenon of competitive, team-based video game tournaments.
The Call of Duty Endowment is a non-profit organization that seeks to help Veterans find high-quality careers. The Endowment runs an annual esports tournament called the C.O.D.E. Bowl to raise awareness for Veteran employment. This year’s C.O.D.E. Bowl will be held on Friday, December 16 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Fans will be able to watch U.S. and U.K. military esports teams battle it out alongside top Call of Duty® streamers in the newly launched Call of Duty®: Warzone™ 2.0. The winning military branch will receive bragging rights and the coveted C.O.D.E. Bowl Trophy. One hundred percent of the net proceeds from the tournament will go toward placing Veterans into high-quality careers.
Bowl will be Incredibly fun to watch
All six U.S. military branches and the three U.K. military branches are participating with members from their own esports teams, with the defending champions—the U.S. Space Force—looking to defend its trophy and challenging all branches to “come and get it” from outer space.
Click here to watch video of the Space Force trophy in space.
“This year, the C.O.D.E. Bowl will take Raleigh by storm with a thrilling Warzone 2.0 battle to see if anyone can pry the trophy away from the Space Force,” said Dan Goldenberg, executive director of the Call of Duty Endowment. “The event will be incredibly fun to watch, but we never lose sight of our important mission of placing the 61% of Veterans who identify as being either unemployed or underemployed into meaningful careers.”
The C.O.D.E. Bowl kicks off at 12 p.m. EST on December 16. It will feature nine military teams each divided into two squads, paired with a popular Call of Duty streamer, all competing in the newly released Call of Duty®: Warzone 2.0 in a tournament-style, mini-royale competition. The action will be broadcast live on the Call of Duty YouTube, Twitch and Facebook channels.
Participating teams from the military include players from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard and Space Force, and U.K. players from the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.
On-Site Hiring Event Part of the Itinerary
Along with the C.O.D.E Bowl in Raleigh, Hire Heroes USA, one of the Endowment’s grantees, will be holding a hiring event on-site at the Raleigh Convention Center the morning leading up to the tournament.
To watch a livestream of the tournament, tune in at https://www.youtube.com/@CallofDuty from 12 to 4 p.m. EST on December 16. Visit this page to find more information about the Call of Duty Endowment.
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My name is Darrel Miller. I am a Veterans Assistance Counselor for the State of Louisiana. I offer my assistance. The Veterans Homeless hotline phone number is 1-877-4AID VET (877-424-3838). The hotline number is staffed 24-hrs daily 7-days a week.
I would like to request that the VA get more involved with how homeless veterans are being treated and discarded by the SSVF programs. The social workers are clueless and there’s quite a bit of racism in the practice from programs receiving the grants. Maryland VA Programs are the worse especially for veterans of color.
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I just looked up the SSVF prog on VA.gov and their provider list is very limited, covering only a limited number of counties per state, so if you don’t live in the right county you can’t get any help. The county with the largest pop of homeless ppl in the USA doesn’t even have a provider.