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"There's a lot of chat right now about how we can get [Call of Duty] into the Olympics."

That's what Jay Puryear, Treyarch's Director of Brand Development believes is the future of the Call of Duty eSports scene.

And although the Tokyo Olympics is still over four years away, it's probably fair to say it would be a stretch for the eSports scene to make it to Japan.

Beyond that? Who knows.

But speaking to Jay and realising just how big the eSports scene and Call of Duty World League truly is, it wouldn't be unthinkable to see it in some form come the Summer Olympics of 2024.

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"Will Call of Duty start off at the Olympics? I’m not sure," Puryear tells us.

"More immediately I could certainly see an all-star team from the States going up against an all-start team from Europe."

eSports and Call of Duty was introduced at the world renowned X-Games in Austin, Texas only two years ago. But as Jay tells us, you can already see the huge potential and popularity spreading with every year that passes.

"During the X-Games ESPN had an app and fans were able to vote for their top 30 X-Games participants. "28 of the 30 were eSports guys. We only took 32 to the event and had Tony Hawk not been there it could have been 29."

If you take a look at the current Global Leader in Gaming Entertainment, the #1 team right now is OpTic Gaming.

As we type this, OpTic have 1.32 million followers on Twitter alone.

By comparison, West Ham United, a football club with over 115 years of history, a club on the eve of moving into an Olympic stadium, currently have 883 thousand.

To really rubber stamp how impressive that is, Optic's CoD captain, 20 year old Seth Abner, currently has a following of 1.07 million.

"I think the Call of Duty World League is in a really strong position right now," Puryear explains.

"It's up to the league to really promote these players as far as their personalities are concerned, as well as the organisations if we're to push it on."

"It's like the MLS pushing David Beckham, or Steven Gerrard.

"The difference though with eSports is that a lot of the fans feel they know these guys and as we move these events across the globe, the more people will want to come and see them play.

"So is the Olympics dream realistic? I think at some point [in the future] yes."