Turf insider August 2024
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Round winners – July 2024 (Round #169)
Congratulations to the winners of round July 2024: IndoorsyHermit from Skåne took Gold, Tempest from Stockholm added a Silver to his Gold from last year and Aicar from Stockholm biked home a Bronze. Well done mates!
Upcoming events
If you are organizing an open event, don't forget to write to insider@turfgame.com a couple of months in advance to get the information about your event into Turf Insider :)
SåsTurf, Alingsås, 10th of August
For the first time there will be an Open Turf event in Alingsås, Sweden. There will be a foot, bike and a water heat followed by an outdoor BBQ (everyone brings their own food and drink). Full details HERE (only in Swedish). The meeting place for the event will be near Mjörnvallen in Alingsås between the zones Mjörn and KongoBridge.
Skåne Open, 24th of August
Participation will give you the event medal. You can read more about it HERE.
Bonanza 2024 on the 14th of September in Enköping
Finally it is possible to sign up for this year's Bonanza.
Sign up with Swedish text HERE.
Sign Up with English text HERE.
Don't forget that the Turf Awards for 2023 will be handed out during the banquet.
Turf Ultimate Region Fight 2024
MaXi is once again organising the annual multi-region fight in September 2024. Same procedure as last year. Read more about it here:
Good Summer
I hope you have had a good summer so far and that you all have managed to see new zones, turn old zones purple, meet old Turf friends and make new Turf friends.
In summer travelling turfers is a common thing. And meeting travelling turfers is nice when you can't travel yourself. In July I had the joy of both meeting travelling turfers in my home town, and meeting great turfers when travelling myself. One morning in the middle of June, I took an Assist with magnefikdoja on my morning bike ride. magnefikdoja with non-turfing partner were on a morning walk, visiting Uppsala for a few days. They were enjoying the flat nature of Uppsala as well as being able to take the zones close to the hotel several times, since the activity in Uppsala is much higher than where they were from.
Then I went travelling with a fellow turfer to Nyköping for a few days. After lunch one day, we met up with K.Rune, one of the first turfers in Nyköping. We assisted in a zone, realized we were going in the same direction, so asked if K.Rune could guide us. K.Rune did, giving us the best route to the next six zones and along the way, K.Rune was awarded the medal Assist-25. Win-win for everyone.
Another Crew member, kjtindall, had a nice meeting with the newish turfer Munchinpants. kjtindall waited in a zone so kjtindall could Assist. kjtindall had seen the turfer on the map, but never met up. Now kjtindall had the chance to find out the origin of Munchinpants nick. 'Cuz some nicks are just that much more interesting than others and you just WANT to know the story behind!
Let's hope the rest of the summer (and yes, August is a summer month!), will be filled with interesting meetings, new zones and old zones.
Turfing Alone or Assisting & Blocks
Turfing alone can be fun when you need a bit of peace or just want to pursue your own goals! But turfing with other people can also be fun (and often a way to get everyone more points overall) and that is one of the reason we have Assist. Assist is where one turfer takes the zone and one (or maybe many many more) assists - the person that fills up their 'take bar' first gets the zone and the pph, the assister(s) gets the take points but no pph.....but the assister can of course then take the zone immediately after the block has expired.
Turf encourages Assists, so much so there is a nice serie of medals for assisting zone take overs (starts with Assist-5) and a medal serie with increasing number of assisters (Crowdy medals - which go up in fibonacci order number). Bear in mind that the taker of the zone doesn't get the medals though!
Do you have to assist if someone is coming? You don't and you might have a good reason for that (you are in a hurry or you are in competition with them in a league or you just want to be on your own!). Often people will ask in the chat for an Assist - which you might want to respond to or not! It is up to you. Sometimes Crew get complaints about 'blocking' where Assist opportunities are ignored or not seen and people get quite upset about this. Now we encourage, courteous behaviour on both sides - it is often nice to wait a few seconds to help out a fellow turfer or sometimes to meet and have a chat with a new turfer! But also, be understanding if a turfer doesn't want to wait - they may have other challenges to deal with that you don't know about. As with all things turf, being nice goes a long way and it is never OK to get angry or abuse someone for not assisting - it is up to them really, they were in the zone first And it is also never OK to abuse a turfer for taking your zones, that is the game after all!
Turf Picture of the Month
This month Turf Insider had more than 10 entries for Turf Picture of the Month, thank you for all the lovely pictures. Only one can be featured here and this months Turf Picture is of the zone AinslieSea taken by Fashven:
If you have a Zone picture you want featured as Turf Picture of the Month, send it to insider@turfgame.com. Please include your Turf nick for recognition!
Turfa lugnt/Safe turfing!
//Munin
