Who Is MarufCODM? The Jackal Player Behind Jackal Verse Esports

Profile · Call of Duty: Mobile

How a specialist pilot turned record-level Jackal performances into a competitive esports platform, a tournament community and a worldwide music release.

MaRUF Profile · September 2026

For players familiar with the Jackal in Call of Duty: Mobile Battle Royale, the name MarufCODM has become associated with a distinctive approach: taking the aircraft far beyond the way most players use it and building an entire competitive identity around mastering the sky.

Maruf first built his following through specialized Jackal gameplay in COD Mobile. That identity has since expanded beyond individual matches. He has competed in public and open lobbies, scrims and Battle Royale tournaments; published a series of unusually high-kill performances; developed a social-media audience; and founded Jackal Verse Esports, a competitive project created for Jackal pilots and the wider BR community.

Fans have given him two especially recognizable nicknames: “the GOAT of Jackal” and “the Final Boss of Jackal.” Neither is an official competitive title. Both emerged from the community in response to the performances that made his name closely connected to the aircraft.

The Jackal became Maruf's signature

The Jackal is one of the most distinctive vehicles in COD Mobile Battle Royale. Using it effectively across an entire match demands a skill set different from conventional ground combat. A pilot must manage speed, altitude and positioning while locating opponents, planning attack runs and responding to threats from below. Staying airborne is only the beginning; converting the aircraft into a consistent source of eliminations requires precision, timing and constant awareness.

For Maruf, that challenge became a specialty. His published solo-versus-squad gameplay includes several matches with more than 50 eliminations while using the Jackal, including recorded performances of 51, 52 and 56 kills. He has also released a 49-kill Jackal performance.

Those performances became a defining part of MarufCODM's online identity. Rather than treating the Jackal as an occasional vehicle or switching between several playstyles, he concentrated on understanding how far the aircraft could be pushed. That sustained specialization is what ultimately led viewers to associate his name so strongly with the Jackal itself.

Taking the aircraft into competitive lobbies

Maruf's record is not limited to public matches. He has also used the Jackal in open lobbies, scrims and Battle Royale tournaments, where organized opponents create a different challenge from standard matchmaking. Teams communicate more effectively, experienced players can coordinate a response to aerial attacks, and a successful pilot can quickly become a priority target for the entire lobby.

One of the most visible moments in his competitive history came during an iFerg squad tournament. Maruf recorded 12 kills in a single game with the Jackal. During the event, iFerg remarked that Maruf “might be the best Jackal player.”

“He might be the best Jackal player.” — iFerg, reacting during the tournament

Another major result came in a $3,000 Battle Royale Pro Tournament. Maruf's team finished third and earned a $500 share of the prize pool. According to Maruf's published competitive record, he also finished with the highest individual kill total in the tournament.

These appearances mattered to his reputation because they showed that the Jackal was more than a tool for public-lobby highlights. Maruf continued to build his competitive style around the aircraft even when facing organized and experienced opposition.

From MarufCODM to Jackal Verse Esports

In 2025, Maruf began looking beyond his own performances and started organizing dedicated competitions for Jackal players. That project became Jackal Verse Esports.

The idea was to give players who had developed their own aerial skills a place to compete directly, rather than remaining scattered across ordinary Battle Royale matches. Over time, Jackal Verse developed from a series of hosted tournaments into a broader competitive platform.

Its official website brings together player profiles, tournaments, results and videos so the community can follow both individual competitors and the history of past events. The project has hosted or developed competitions including the Jackal Garena Cup, Jackal World Cup and Jackal Champions Cup.

Rather than allowing each event to disappear after the final match, Jackal Verse records competitors and results as part of an ongoing tournament story. Returning players can build reputations across multiple competitions, previous winners can defend their status, and new pilots can challenge established names.

Player, founder and tournament organizer

One of the defining features of Jackal Verse is that its founder comes directly from the gameplay around which the project was built. Maruf was a Jackal player before he became an organizer. His experience in public matches, scrims and tournament lobbies came before the platform.

That gives him two connected roles within the community. He remains MarufCODM, the player associated with high-kill Jackal matches and competitive appearances. At the same time, he is the founder of Jackal Verse Esports, creating a platform where other pilots can compete, establish records and build identities of their own.

Jackal Verse did not begin as an outside esports organization selecting a game mode to promote. It grew from Maruf's direct involvement in the Jackal community and his ambition to turn a specialized style of gameplay into organized competition.

Giving Jackal Verse a sound of its own

As the tournaments became more developed, Jackal Verse also began building a recognizable audiovisual identity. One of its most unusual elements is original music created specifically for Jackal Verse events.

The tracks are part of the tournament presentation rather than a separate project carrying the same name. They appear in event trailers, highlights, promotional clips and official videos. A Jackal World Cup production can use music connected to that competition, while Champions Cup media can carry a soundtrack created for its own campaign.

In that way, the music becomes part of each event's identity alongside its players, graphics, branding and broadcasts. The official platform also presents a Champions Cup anthem as part of the build-up to the competition.

Jackal Verse music reaches global platforms

The music eventually moved beyond tournament media. Maruf released tracks associated with the Jackal World Cup and Jackal Champions Cup worldwide, making them available independently through major digital services as the Jackal Verse EP by Maruf Codm.

The connection to the competitions remains central. A viewer can hear a track in a tournament trailer and then find it on a streaming platform; someone who discovers the music first can trace it back to the Jackal Verse event for which it was created.

Documenting the journey on social media

Social media has played a major role in documenting Maruf's development as a Jackal player. His TikTok account, @marufcodm, features gameplay clips, competitive moments and several of the high-kill performances that contributed to his reputation.

Jackal Verse represents the more structured side of the project, preserving tournament information, player records, results and event videos. Together, the social content and the esports platform present the two sides of Maruf's work: the player and the organizer.

What comes next

Jackal Verse continues to expand its tournament ecosystem. Its current roadmap identifies the Jackal Champions Cup as the next major Jackal Verse competition, scheduled to begin in December 2026, while the platform continues to maintain its World Cup results and growing player database.

For Maruf, the project represents a significant evolution from where the story began. First came a player learning to master an aircraft inside COD Mobile Battle Royale. That specialization produced high-kill games, those performances established MarufCODM within the community, and the reputation inspired the fan-created “GOAT of Jackal” and “Final Boss” identities.

Instead of keeping the focus entirely on his own gameplay, Maruf then created competitions where other pilots could demonstrate what they could do with the same aircraft. Those events became Jackal Verse. The platform grew to include player profiles, results, videos, original event music and global streaming releases.

Maruf remains the pilot behind the 51, 52 and 56-kill performances that helped establish his name, and a competitor with experience in scrims and tournament play. But MarufCODM is now only one part of the story. He is also the founder behind Jackal Verse Esports, building a place where Jackal players can compete, create records and become part of a community with tournaments, media and music of its own.