The Animation web-series Palpitação Brazil was created for the Bola nas Costas Blog at Globoesporte.com*. The episodes were shown before each match of the Brazilian team in the World Cup (FIFA Cup Brazil 2014). With vignettes and gags, it gave a “guess” about what would be the final result for the game. The series had a first edition for the World Cup in South Africa in 2010.

Palpitação is a play in the words: Palpitação means palpitation, throb, accelerated heartbeat. But the word can be broken in two parts – Palpit(e) (= hint, guess) + Ação (= action, movement).