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UK-based content creators and personalities are taking part in an official Call of Duty BO6 Safehouse Challenge giving away £100,000 as a house deposit.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launches on October 25th 2024, and takes players back to the year of 1991, where they conduct their missions from a Safehouse. In-game, the Safehouse is a central base of operations between each campaign mission – it has a secret history, and formerly served as a KGB Black Site.
To mark the launch, Call of Duty is giving away £100,000 for someone to buy their own Safehouse. This will cover the standard house price in 1991 (which was about £57,959, according to the UK House Price Index via Landregistry.gov), additional money to kit it out with furniture and removals, pluys gaming gear for the gaming room, and legal and solicitor fees.
The gaming bundle element of the prize will include: 1 x Xbox gaming console and 1 x controller (Xbox Series X console and Xbox series X/S controller), 1 x TV screen (Panasonic MZ980 Series – 55 inch), 1 x Gaming PC, with the following tech specs: NZXT H5 Flow Chassis RGB, AMD 7800X3D CPU, ASUS TUF 7900 XTX GPU, 2TB Corsair NVMe drive, Corsair H100i LCD Cooler, 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB memory, ASUS TUF Gaming X670E-PLUS Wifi motherboard, Windows 11 Home.
With 46% of 18–24-year-olds fearing they’ll never be able to afford their own home, organisers say the £100,000 prize is ‘more than just a sum of money; it’s a lifeline, offering a substantial hand toward their own ‘Safehouse’.
What is the BO6 Safehouse Challenge and who’s involved?
The BO6 Safehouse Challenge will be hosted by Roman Kemp and will see ‘rogue agents’ Angry Ginge, Ash Holme, and Danny Aarons, go head-to-head in a series of Black Ops-style tests and forfeits.
The three agents will need to tap into their rogue instincts, pushing their limits to secure the £100,000 cash prize for their dedicated fans, all themed around lies and deception.
These challenges will unfold in a meticulously recreated Safehouse, reminiscent of the setting from the game.
All the action from the Safehouse will be published on Call of Duty’s social media channels @CallofDutyUK (X), @CallofDuty (TikTok) – from October 10th, laddering up to the finale on October 24th 2024. The online entrants who chose the winning agent will then be put into a draw, with the winner announced on November 1.
Roman Kemp, host of the BO6 Safehouse Challenge, said: “This year Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is taking gamers back to the 90s, a time that we all look back on fondly thanks to the incredible music, wild fashion, and ‘Cool Britannia’ vibes.
“However, the 90s was also a time of political upheaval and deception, so to secure the prize for one of their fans our Rogue Agents will need to embody the 90s and the Black Ops spirit to secure the bag.”
To enter, aspiring homeowners need to go to promoentries.com/Safehouse and pick which of the competitors they believe will come out on top in the series of challenges. Entrants must be UK-based non-homeowners aged 18+.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.