Operation Bad Blood, Evike.com's Appreciation Game has got even bigger each year, especially when the company threw its strength behind it. It has become the largest airsoft event in the Northeastern United States, drawing players from many parts of the East Coast and hitting over 1,000 players.

Conceived initially as a charity game by Moondog Industries and NYC Airsoft for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, for 2014 Op Bad Blood expands even further, and will be hitting both the East and West Coasts.  They won't happen at the same time as Op Bad Blood East set for 13-14 June at Paintball Sports in Plate Kill, New York and Op Bad Blood West set for 2 May at Arc Airsoft in Hollister, California.

Op Bad Blood West is also a charity event with the International Medical Corps being the intended recipient in support of their Ebola Treatment Efforts and the California Academy of Sciences. Op Bad Blood West still maintains support for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and added the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation as recipient for this year. Moondog makes sure that the events he organises always have a charity component.

Both events will have the same storyline:

In the aftermath of an outbreak of Ebola, a third of Congo’s population is dead and the country is in open civil war. The country is split into 6 warring factions. The CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control) has put out a bounty for fresh virus samples from the effected regions to try and isolate the new ebola strain. Each of faction has sent armed medical teams into the hot zone in the tribal territories to find them.

Op Bad Blood East is a 2-day event, with the second day being a sneak preview for this year's Tantalum Contract and the zombie-themed airsoft game OP: Dead Blood.

Tickets for both events can be purchased at the Evike.com online store but you will have to wait for them to announce when the tickets will be on sale. For now, the best is to learn more about both events at the NYCAirsoft.com forums.