Turf insider December 2025

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Round winners – November (Round #185)

Congratulations to the winners of round November 2025: AJHB from Greater London won his first Gold and became the 9th turfer to take over 2 million points in one round, GOZU from Södermanland took home the Silver in a tight race with nicos from Berlin who completed the shiny medals with a Bronze. Well done mates!

Upcoming events

If you are organising 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 the newsletter :)

SCOnanza 5-7th of June, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Dangermous and his fellow Scottish turfers are looking forward to welcome Turfers from Scotland and beyond for SCOnanza in [[[Municipality:Glasgow City|Glasgow]], 5-7 June 2026. Expect some novel events and lively venues across the city. Jot it down in your Calendar now! Details to follow next year.

Bonanza 2026 – September 5th in Gothenburg Sweden

Just a reminder to book a long weekend in Gothenburg in September 2026. Information about the Bonanza can be found HERE (in Swedish) and HERE] (in English).

Lusseturf 2025

Lusseturf 2025 was held in Sala and a total of 39 turfers took at least one zone. The Event took place over the new round start, but all that was observed was a short ”twitch” in the system according to one of the organisers who was keeping an eye out for potential problems when the new round started in the middle of the Event. As per usual, it was a well organised Event with plenty of lussebuns and gingerbread cookies shaped as Turf avatars to munch on. Congrats to JoelOsteen (Gold), ripe (Silver) and romi (Bronze). See you next year!

Regarding Zone Issues

Turf Crew likes issues that help to improve zones. However, more and more zone issues are about reshaping the zone map to a particular turfer's liking, which might not even be in the other locals best interest. Turf Crew has a great variety of zone makers, and all try their best to make good zones, often based on suggestions in the Turf app. And remember that just because a zone was created where you once upon a time suggested a zone, you might not have been the only one thinking that was a great place for a zone.

You never know what the reason behind the particular location of a zone might be, the zone maker might have seen something else close by or the possibility of more zones in that area in the future and therefore put the zone where it is. The zone quota that exists in Sweden and UK are meant to improve the daily Turf experience for as many turfers as possible in that area, and not necessarily for ”once in a life time” zones. As for any rule there are of course exceptions.

Zone changes should only be made if there is something obviously wrong with the zone, like the zone is impossible to reach (including consistent GPS problems due to high buildings), if the zone is dangerous to reach, if the zone is too small or if the zone name is misspelled (and not on purpose!) or an attribute is missing. But as a general rule, zones should not be moved to get a better flow or to better fulfil someone's dream zone layout.

Really old zones are often positioned on grass, due to the zone making rules at the time. This will cause the grass to turn into mud during spring/autumn and moving it to a nearby path will improve the turf experience. This is especially common outside of Sweden.

Zones are often named after something meant to be at the zone, or something you can see from the zone or something that popped into the zone makers head when he/she made the zone. Just remember that a zone does not have to be named exactly like the place is called in the Real World. Quirky zone names is an old Turf tradition, so let us keep our weird zone names!

A Zone Worthy of a Detour

Turf Insider is introducing a new section of the newsletter. Tell us about a special zone, that is a bit (or a lot!) out of the way, but definitely worth the extra miles.

This time mpmoke will tell you about the zone LagligtBus in region Västmanland, Sweden.

”In Spännarhyttan, the old mining community of Norberg in Västmanland, Sweden, you can find the remains of Europe's most modern blast furnace. It was only in operation from 1975 to 1981 before it was closed due to unprofitability.

The surrounding area has been partially cleared, but there are concrete foundations, scrap metal and walls left from the demolished buildings. These remains are legally allowed to be painted with graffiti, and the wall is often called "Sweden's most expensive graffiti wall".

As with many other graffiti spots, the quality of the paintings are mixed, some tags and random sprays but also some gems. Go there, take the Turf zone and don't forget the spray paint and mask! ”

So which zone were you happy to make a detour for? Write a few sentences about it and send to insider@turfgame.com]

Turf Advent Calender

Turf Skåne has put together a Turf Advent Calender. It consists of 24 daily missions. It is possible to join late, if you missed it. The daily missions don't have to be done on the day they are revealed, but any time during December. More information HERE (only in Swedish).

Turf Picture of the Month

Turf Picture of the Month in November is OmahaBeach sent in by allinug. Again, only one contribution for Turf Picture of the Month was sent it, so very easy to pick :)

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