Turf insider February 2026
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Round winners – January 2026 (Round #187)
Congratulations to the winners of round January 2026: AJHB from Greater London won his third Gold in a row, nicos from Berlin added one more Silver to his medal row and JimmyAIK94 from Stockholm braved the cold nights to secure a Bronze. This round no one collected over 1 million points, the winter cold takes its toll. Still, well done mates!
AJHB is the fourth turfer to take three Gold Medals back to back. Welshman has the record of four Gold Medals in a row, he did this back in 2021.
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 :)
SåsTurf, 25th of April, 2026 in Alingsås, Sweden
MaXi is again organising SåsTurf. This year it will be in and around the lovely Floraskogen in Alingsås. More information HERE!
SCOnanza 5-7th of June, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Dangermous and his fellow Scottish turfers are looking forward to welcoming Turfers from Scotland and beyond for SCOnanza in Glasgow, 5-7 June 2026. Expect some novel events and lively venues across the city. Put it in the diary now! Details will follow.
Bonanza 2026 – September 5th in Gothenburg Sweden
The registration for this year's Bonanza is now open. Read more on Turf Göteborg's webpages.
Swedish info HERE.
English info HERE.
The Göteborg turfers welcome you all to the West side of Sweden for some good Bonanza fun in September.
A Zone Worthy of a Detour – by edjur
The zone "Hästhallen" (The Horse Hall) in the southeast corner of Sweden (Blekinge) is worthy of a detour. I was there in July of 2025 while on vacation with my mother who has taken up archeology as a hobby after retirement. We therefore needed to visit these amazing rock carvings from the Bronze Age while in Blekinge. There was no zone at the time, however, I put in a zone suggestion since the place really needed one. :-) My suggestion became a zone in September, and the detour to visit is really worth the effort!
Thank you edjur for your contribution! If you have your own special zone you'd like to tell the Turf World about, send a paragraph or two about it to insider@turfgame.com and let the Turf community learn more about it!
Beta testing
An important task when upgrading Turf and adding new features, is the beta testing of new versions of the app. You can sign up to be a Beta tester in the Play store where you download the Turf app. Many do this, but however some seem to forget about it and this was obvious this January when a new beta version of Turf saw the light. Posts on Social media described problems with taking zones and turfers did not know why. It was almost always explained by them using the new Beta version of Turf without knowing it. Information was sent out in the app to all users.
Beta testing is very important, and the developers of Turf are very grateful to everyone participating in the Beta test program. It can be a thankless job when strange bugs happen, but it is very important. So thank you all Beta testers out there!
When I saw the weather forecast for a few places further north, I decided to go there in the hopes of experiencing -40 degrees, a few degrees colder than my super cold Turf session two years ago. On the 8th of january I took the bus to Kiruna with my bike. I biked from Kiruna to Svappavaara in as low as -32 degrees Celsius, but about two thirds on the way a kind person picked me up and drove me and my bike to my Airbnb in Svappavaara. On the 9th of january, I started at -23 degrees in Svappavaara and when I had biked to Vittangi, it had gotten as cold as -34 degrees. In the beginning of that bike trip, a moose litterally jumped about 10 meters in front of me while I biked. On the 10th of january, my thermometer showed -38.5 as the coldest, right before I biked and took all the zones in Vittangi.
On the 11th I biked from Vittangi to Svappavaara in about -31 degrees, I met a truck driver who had had an accident with a reindeer, which is not surprising since they are often on the roads up there and do not care about traffic. I also had one of my top 5 aurora moments on the way between Vittangi and Svappavaara, which is saying a lot considering I almost live inside the arctic circle. I didn´t get to experience -40C yet, but I will soon enough.
Editor's Opinion
I joined Turf Crew 10 years ago because I thought it would be fun to make zones. It is a lot of fun, but also sometimes a bit thankless. There has been zone issues about placement (most are valid since it is hard to make zones from a far in a place you've never visited), zone name and even turfers upset about being credited with the '"Zone Suggestion Accepted" since the zone was not EXACTLY where they suggested it! (anyone who placed a zone suggestion within 200 m of the zone, gets this message).
Zones should be 25 by 25 meters in order for the GPS to work at least ok in most places. Sometimes this will mean that a zone is likely to cover at least part of someone's private garden or a railroad track. One such zone of mine is GlömTräsket, centered on the bike/foot path next to the railroad, but it also covers the rail track since otherwise it might be hard to take from the bike/foot path.
Another big no-no among turfers who write issues is to put the zone where it can be easily taken by car, and especially if the turfer can stay IN the car while taking the zone. I am guilty of making "car friendly" zones since the option has been not to put a zone at all in that area. This happens most often in residential areas where bike or foot paths are nowhere to be seen or they are very close to a car road. Again, the option is to not have a zone on this nice path in this area and then I am ok with having people occasionally take it by car.
I was once asked by a fellow zone maker if he should grant the local turfers' wish to have a zone by the food market in the city, even though it would be partly on the road, and accessible by car. I told him, he should put a zone there since it was a single car friendly zone in that part of the city. And again, most of the time the zone is taken by foot or by bike. I would never make the majority of zones in an area car friendly, but the odd zone here and there, why not? Especially if the option is no zone at all!
Zones I've made have also been totally trashed in social media for being in the wrong area of a city since "no one is turfing there". Well, maybe the reason no one is turfing there, is that there is no zones in that area! And I also rarely make zones without basing them on zone suggestions in the Turf app, so obviously someone made a zone suggestion in that place where "no one is turfing".
Despite the guidelines for zonemaking, it is still the personal choice of a zone maker where to put the zone. The reasons behind where a zone ends up, are as many as there are zone makers in Crew. And it is still fun to make zones! HERE you can read another zone maker's personal opinion about zone making, it dates back to 2020, but is definitely worth a read.
Turf Picture of the Month
Turf Picture of the Month in January is GappyPier sent in by HappyF.
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
