Doodle 4 Google – “I love football” Doodle 4 Google – “I love football”E-mail us at ukdoodle@googlemail.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 the UK 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 framed copy of his/her doodle. The national winning doodle will be displayed on Google’s homepage for that country.
Each national winner will win a framed copy of his/her doodle and his/her doodle will be displayed on the Google homepage for 24 hours on 12th June 2010.
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 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 UK citizens. However, they must be residents of the UK.
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 consent form as well.
Mail your drawing to this address by 9th May 2010:
Doodle 4 Google Entries, PO Box 14, London, SE16 2DF
Doodles entries must get to us before 10th May 2010: no later than 11:59:59 PM (local time)
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.
Participants’ doodles will be judged by Google employees from the UK. 10 national finalists will be selected that way, from which the public will vote for the winner.
To narrow the entries down to the top 10 national finalists, eligible doodles will be judged by Google employees against the following criteria:
When voting, the public are encouraged to use the same criteria.
Yes, at national and global level: The public will be invited to vote for their favourite doodle from the 10 national finalists that are posted on the Doodle 4 Google – “I love football” web site. Once the national winners are announced in each participating country, the public will vote for the overall winner.
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.
