Doodle 4 Google – "I love football"
Doodle 4 Google – "I love football"E–mail us at D4Gfootball-ZA@google.com and someone from the Doodle 4 Google – "I love football" team will do their best to get back to you.
Doodle 4 Google – "I love football" is a competition open to young people (aged 4–17) from South Africa to create their own Google doodle inspired by the theme I love football.
We are delighted to encourage and celebrate the creativity of young people, and are excited to see the range of creative doodles that are submitted, about a sport we are passionate about.
At Google we love sports, and we think that football, one of the most played and followed sports in the world, has its own culture that goes beyond frontiers or teams. We are looking forward to seeing the creative visions that young people will submit to represent their love for this sport.
Past winners from previous national doodle competitions (for example: "My Britain" in the UK or "If I could do anything I would…" in the USA) are ineligible to win, but they are allowed to submit doodles and participate in the competition.
Each national winner will win a laptop as well as a framed copy of his/her doodle. The national winning doodle will be displayed on Google's homepage for that country.
The national winning doodles from each participating country will be displayed on the Doodle 4 Google – I Love Football international contest web site and will enter the international Doodle 4 Google – I Love Football contest.
The global winning doodle will be displayed on the Google homepage in all participating countries for 24 hours on 11th July 2010.
The winner will win a holiday to South Africa offered by the South Africa Tourism Board. The trip is for 4 people including one adult, for nine nights, and includes international flights, domestic transportation and accommodation. The runner–up will win 2 VIP tickets to a Premiere League football match in the UK offered by Sports New Media, including international flights, domestic transportation and accommodation in the city where the match takes place.
Participants are not required to be South African citizens. However, they must be permanent residents of South Africa.
There is a limit of one entry per participant. When you are ready to submit your entry, please send us your drawing on an A4 sheet – we advise you to use the Google logo template that acts as an entry and parent’s or legal guardian consent form as well.
Mail your drawing to this address by May 3rd 2010:
Google SA, c/o Two Green Pears, P O Box 1117, Rivonia, 2128, South Africa
Doodles entries must get to us before May 3rd 2010: no later than 9am (local time)
All participants must write their age on the doodle page that they submit. That way we will take age into consideration, and besides, who said 17 years olds are more creative than 4 years olds?! Creativity is a big part of the judging criteria, and in our experience, very young participants come up with amazing doodles.
No. We've been hosting Doodle 4 Google competitions since 2005, the first time was in the United Kingdom. We've also hosted the competition in about 15 countries, including the USA, Australia and New Zealand, China, Egypt, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, and the Netherlands. We've been amazed and inspired by the doodle submissions in every competition, and are very excited to host this competition at both national and international levels this time.
A panel of local Google employees will evaluate all entries. The entries with the top ten scores will be posted and the public will be asked to vote for their favorite doodle amongst the ten*. The doodle with the greatest number of public votes will be named the National Winner. The National Winner in each country will be put forward for global public vote and the doodle with the greatest number of public votes will be named the International Winner while the doodle with the second highest number of public votes will be named the International Runner-up.
To narrow the entries down to the top 10 national finalists, eligible doodles will be judged by Google employees against the following criteria:
Artistic merit: based on artistic skill.
Creativity: based on the representation of the theme and use of the Google logo.
Theme communication: how well the theme is expressed.
Appropriateness of the supporting statement.
The doodle must not show any representation, logo or symbol of a specific country or a team or a sporting event such as: All football team's badges, any country flags, any football tournaments symbols or logos (such doodles will be disqualified to compete).
When voting, the public is encouraged to use the same criteria.
Yes, at the national and global level: at each stage, the public will be asked to pick their favorite doodle.
A Google "doodle" is what we call the decoration we make to our logo every so often. Over the years doodles have become one of the most beloved parts of Google. People really look forward to going to our homepage and seeing what new doodle is on there. Some users have described it as a holiday for them when they see a new doodle. Google doodles have been produced to celebrate several noted artists and scientists. Some of our favorites have included: Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Louis Braille, Percival Lowell, Edvard Munch, among others. For more information visit the Doodle History and Original Doodler pages.
Nearly three hundred have appeared on Google.com in the U.S., and over seven hundred have appeared internationally on international domains.
We have an international group who selects doodles from both within and outside Google. For specific international domains, we ask for suggestions about local holidays. Although we are aware that our list of doodles is not exhaustive, we try to select doodles that show creativity and innovation in a meaningful way. Generally, we look for non-denominational doodles that are fun and quirky from a variety of categories, such as those that celebrate the lives of artists and inventors.
