1. General

The opening time and date of the contest is 25th June 2010 at 16:00 GMT, and the closing date and time for receipt of entries is 24 June 2010 at 24:00 GMT. Entries submitted after this time will not be considered.


2. Restrictions

This prize draw is open to UK residents aged 13 and over only. Employees (and members of their immediate family) of "Electronic Arts" ("EA") ("Promoter"), their agents and anyone connected to this competition are not eligible to enter.

3. Rules to participate

No purchase of any goods or services is necessary to be eligible for entry into this competition.

In order to be considered as entrants into the competition, users are required to publish a qualifying entry to the comments thread of the corresponding news article page at www.easportsfootball.com. Entries posted to any other page will not be considered.

A qualifying entry will be one that meets the criteria of entry as specified in the correspoding news article, entered as text only into the comments section of the article. EA will judge entries based on their creativity, originality and humour. The judges' decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.

4. Prize(s)

One (1) winner will be awarded the prize of an official adidas 2010 FIFA World Cup 'Jabulani' football.

There are no alternatives to these prizes. They are as stated and are non-transferable. If due to circumstances beyond the control of EA, EA is unable to provide the stated prizes, EA reserves the right to award substitute prizes of equal value. All prizes are subject to the terms and conditions of the supplier.

5. Results

The winner will be announced in the EA SPORTS Podcast of 2nd July 2010, which can be seen at http://www.EASPORTSFootball.com/media. The winner will also be contacted directly via Football World messaging on or around the date of publication of the 2nd July podcast.

If the winner of the prize cannot be traced after reasonable efforts have been made by EA, EA will be entitled to select alternative winner from among the entrants.

Details of the winner will be available for four (4) weeks following the day of the selection of winners. Details can be obtained by writing to Football World – Jabulani Podcast, Electronic Arts, Onslow House, Onslow Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4TN

If proof of age is requested, and if satisfactory proof of age is not received, EA reserves the rights to choose another winner.

6. General Conditions

Any entry, which does not comply with the rules, may be deemed invalid at the sole discretion of EA. EA is not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, misdirected entries, lost or unavailable network connections, failed, incorrect, garbled, delayed electronic or other communications or other technical problems related to mobile entries. Proof of sending will not be deemed to be proof of delivery.

By submitting your material to EA, you represent and warrant that your submission (a) is your own and original creation and does not violate or infringe the rights of any third party, including without limitation, copyrights, trademarks or trade dress, patents, or rights of publicity/privacy; (b) is not defamatory, obscene, offensive or indecent; and (c) and has not been previously published or submitted to other parties or websites. By submitting your material to EA, you also acknowledge that your material is not confidential or proprietary.  Our review of your material does not imply that we will use, develop or publish your material.  Nor does our review of your material prevent us from using, developing, publishing or marketing ideas or products that may be similar to your material. 

Once you submit any material to EA, you expressly grant EA the worldwide, complete, exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right to quote, re-post, use, reproduce, modify, distribute, transmit, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and publicly display and perform the material in any form, anywhere, without attribution to you, and without notice or compensation to you of any kind.  If we decide to use, develop or publish your material, you agree to take any further steps reasonably required by EA (and at EA's cost) to enforce and protect our rights to your material.

Assignment of Rights is a condition of claiming the prize(s).

Entrants agree that they may be required to take part in publicity without further consent or payment. Such publicity may include their names and/or likeness.

7. Data protection

In order to participate in the competition participants must provide certain information on themselves. This personal information is collected and processed only for the purposes of organising, running and monitoring the campaign, as well as for carrying out publicity activities on it. The organising entity shall be considered the data controller for the database containing this personal information.

By entering this competition, participants agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions and by any other requirements set out in the promotional material, which may be amended or varied at any time by the Promoter.

The Promoter of this prize draw is EA Swiss Sàrl, Place du Molard 8, Geneva 1204, Switzerland.

This prize draw is governed by and is in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.