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World Cup Speed Dial Competition

On June 11th the eyes of the world will turn to South Africa to witness the most popular sporting event on Earth. We want to celebrate with a World Cup Speed Dial competition! This is a perfect opportunity to show of your design skills while showing support for your favorite team!

What to submit

The goal of this competition is to create a Speed Dial background to cheer on your favorite team in the the Football World Championship. So if you support the hosting nation's South Africa team, then you would make a South African football Speed Dial background. We want you to be as creative as you can, just remember that you need to hold all rights for images and logos used!

How do I win?

Submit your Speed Dial background to the album for your country of choice and whoever gets the most comments wins exclusive World Cup Opera swag. The grand prize is an HTC Legend smartphone, and it will be awarded by a jury consisting of Opera Designers Truls and Oleg.

Rules and information

The following rules applies for the competition:

  1. All material used must be your own or you must hold the rights to use them. Please note that the World Cup logo is a FIFA trademark.
  2. Join in as many categories as you like, but only one submission for each.
  3. All entries must be submitted using the e-mail link found in the team albums.
  4. All entries must include your My Opera username in the filename so we can identify you!
  5. Only one comment per image is allowed.
  6. Main prize winners will be selected by a jury of Opera designers. The main criteria are originality and usability as a Speed Dial background.

Prizes

The main prize is a Opera powered HTC Legend or any other phone of equal value. The prize is a available in the form of a Online gift voucher.

Each country winner will also receive a Opera football and Opera SWAG!

Deadline

The deadline for submitting is the 25th of June, winners will be announced the following week.

Update:

The email has now been updated. Contributions will now be sent to prize@opera.com and we will update them manually.

Comments

Tamil Friday, June 4, 2010 7:38:32 AM

up

(194)

Zhmenia Friday, June 4, 2010 7:38:43 AM

There's no my country here. So sad =(

Pfeleleppfelelep Friday, June 4, 2010 7:43:31 AM

cool!
oh wait, I'm not a football-fan. :/

Aleksander AasAleksander Friday, June 4, 2010 8:28:32 AM

Your team does not have to be there for you to join in! Norway isn't there, so this year I'm routing for the Netherlands!

z@h3kZAHEK Friday, June 4, 2010 8:37:25 AM

netwolf Friday, June 4, 2010 8:41:13 AM

If only I didn't hate soccer/football/... that much... wink

Hugh Jarseleroythemasochist Friday, June 4, 2010 10:33:31 AM

I am waiting for my friends to chat lol:) smile flirt flirt flirt flirt bye

GarethGarryn Friday, June 4, 2010 11:03:37 AM

Love how England doesn't have an England flag in your list...

khelil koceilakoussy Friday, June 4, 2010 11:04:40 AM

one two three viva Algeria bigsmile

mahmoud hanysuperjump Friday, June 4, 2010 11:20:24 AM

anyone can !!

Lukáš PospíchalPospíc Friday, June 4, 2010 11:22:51 AM

czech????

PatriceMICKEY2D Friday, June 4, 2010 11:34:58 AM

floxy chidumeujuero Friday, June 4, 2010 12:10:59 PM

ya life is good, thanx 4 caswel

Aleksander AasAleksander Friday, June 4, 2010 12:12:10 PM

England flag updated smile

floxy chidumeujuero Friday, June 4, 2010 12:19:37 PM

ya life is good, thanx 4 caswel nigerian.

PatriceMICKEY2D Friday, June 4, 2010 12:22:02 PM

I do not participate! sorry thank you o

Antonio Cavalcantecavalcante54 Friday, June 4, 2010 12:27:42 PM

Hello Yankees! Put down the guns and play soccer!!!

Kamrul Hassankhshibly Friday, June 4, 2010 12:40:35 PM

brazillllll

Abhinavdecodedthought Friday, June 4, 2010 12:55:51 PM

Germany>Spain>England !!!! up

Lukášlukaydo Friday, June 4, 2010 1:03:42 PM

slovakia, our first world cup smile

Linhbrokenheartvn Friday, June 4, 2010 1:12:41 PM

hot! up

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, June 4, 2010 1:36:20 PM

up

hellsig Friday, June 4, 2010 3:01:17 PM

idea CHILE!!!

Leshegoleshego Friday, June 4, 2010 3:11:33 PM

I'm rooting 4 my country, the host! South africa if u don't know....go Bafana Bafana!!

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, June 4, 2010 4:13:45 PM

The matches start around next weekend

Leshegoleshego Friday, June 4, 2010 6:31:39 PM

The opening match is next week friday....can't wait 4 the opening ceremony

IKoke Friday, June 4, 2010 7:00:15 PM

Chile up

KarenNerak Friday, June 4, 2010 11:16:30 PM

Neato...I'm not gonna partake again, though. Good luck to those who do. up

yeeliberto Saturday, June 5, 2010 2:52:26 AM

very nice

endah yaniyan065 Saturday, June 5, 2010 3:06:36 AM

World cuuuup!!!!

silver infinitysilver-infinity Saturday, June 5, 2010 10:58:35 AM

This is good. Go ITALY!!!

Jairo enrique mateos riverowackos Saturday, June 5, 2010 7:40:48 PM

is greats

Jairo enrique mateos riverowackos Saturday, June 5, 2010 7:40:49 PM

is greats

EMMANUEL ADU-FOSUdearestone Saturday, June 5, 2010 10:17:01 PM

i luv it.

IdhamIdhamku Saturday, June 5, 2010 10:51:37 PM

Keep on eyes

Agustengku Sunday, June 6, 2010 4:45:55 AM

My country no include!!!

Lukášlukaydo Sunday, June 6, 2010 9:28:11 AM

i have error everytime i try tu submit my entry, returned mail: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|sudo -u www-data perl /var/modules/bin/xwa_mail_mmshandler.pl >>/var/log/perlstderr.log 2>&1"
(reason: 255)

mahisunilchavdamahisunil Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:54:30 AM

hiii friends opera is the best software of the world:up:

Raymond Loperarydlp12 Monday, June 7, 2010 6:11:34 PM

Here are my predictions:
1. Argentina
2. Spain
3. Brazil
4. Ivory Coast.
Good Luck to all of you!!!!!!!!!!

sunday presleypresley102 Monday, June 7, 2010 6:31:42 PM

how long does it take before the background appears

sunday presleypresley102 Monday, June 7, 2010 6:43:42 PM


i have error everytime i try tu
submit my entry with my email,it returned mail:
----- The following addresses had
permanent fatal errors -----
"|sudo -u www-data perl /var/
modules/bin/
xwa_mail_mmshandler.pl >>/var/
log/perlstderr.log 2>&1"
(reason: 255)

36MMs Monday, June 7, 2010 11:16:38 PM

¡Uno dos tres Estados unidos!

Aleksander AasAleksander Tuesday, June 8, 2010 10:44:25 AM

Confirmed a issue with the mms upload solution. Stay tuned for a update!

Aleksander AasAleksander Tuesday, June 8, 2010 11:03:46 AM

Updated! The email should now be working again. I'm sorry for any inconvenience.

Now go win that phone!!!11!1

Austine MizekoMizeko Tuesday, June 8, 2010 9:07:35 PM

Ole! Ooollleeee! Am blowing my vuvuzela for South Africa. Lets show them visiters what Africa is made of. Shall we?

Angelikiellinidata Wednesday, June 9, 2010 3:11:46 AM

headbang headbang headbang Good Luck to all participants! yes

table football white and blue football player photo

Aleksander AasAleksander Wednesday, June 9, 2010 7:06:49 AM

Updated again smile

sunday presleypresley102 Wednesday, June 9, 2010 7:22:54 AM

@aleksander can we send the background frm our email to that link or is it mms only?

sunday presleypresley102 Wednesday, June 9, 2010 7:25:10 AM

@aleksander can we send the background frm our email to that link or is it mms only?

xxsofish Wednesday, June 9, 2010 12:08:40 PM

football,the worldgame

dxxdxdddxxxxxxxdddd

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