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Round winners – April 2026 (Round #190)

Congratulations to the winners of round April 2026: Király from Skåne added one more Gold to his medal row, TriggerHappy from Uppsala aimed for Roundpointer 1 million and ended up with a Silver in the process, nröjB from Berlin turfed home his first Bronze in a last minute sprint on the last Saturday of the round. 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 :)

Åland Open, 23rd of May, 2026 in Mariehamn, Åland, Finland

It is getting close, get over to Åland for the Åland Open! For the third time, Örebro turfers together with Pensionat Solhem are organizing the Åland Open. There will be both a Foot and a Bike event, with an Event banquet in the evening at Pensionat Solhem. Register HERE.

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

SCOnanza moves west this year - we can't wait to see you 5th-7th June in Glasgow! There'll be a Foot Turf event on Friday evening with drinks afterwards to welcome everyone to the city. Saturday will feature the Scottish Open Cycle and Foot Turf events with dinner and prize ceremony later on. And Sunday, a Foot Turf event unique to Glasgow - it's a surprise!! Full details and sign-up form can be found HERE.

Whether you usually Turf in Scotland or beyond, hope to see you here in Glasgow! //Dangermous & team

Uppsala 2026, 13th of June in Uppsala, Sweden

Kygni is for the second time in a row organizing an Open [[Event[[ in Uppsala. It goes on for three hours and will be full of interesting and weird zones, if last year is anything to go by :) More information will follow!

Bonanza 2026 – September 5th in Gothenburg, Sweden

The registration for this year's Bonanza is open now. 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 recycling

The BrahällaRuin zone is located in Tranås municipality by Lake Noen, west of Tranås.

Brahälla Castle was built around 1680 as a hunting lodge for Count Per Brahe the Younger. The castle was abandoned early on and fell into disrepair. A couple of restorations have been carried out over the years.

You can find the zone via road 133 and road F998 and then take a gravel road to a barely noticeable parking lot. From there, there is a 1.5 km long path to the castle that is partly overgrown. Parts of the route can be wet and muddy.

Thank you recycling 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!

On the same theme, far far away zones are the next story.

Three FTT:s in Mexico – by HaileGåBraSe and ReadySteadyGå

Turfers HaileGåBraSe and ReadySteadyGå spent a week in Mexico in the beginning of April. We were there mainly for sightseeing but for obvious reasons we also wanted to Turf a little.

Although there are very few tourist zones in Mexico, turfers can still get their fill thanks to the country being richly blessed with world heritage sites, 36 in total. During our travels we visited five different sites listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List and in doing so we also managed to take no less than three FTTs.

Zone: ElTajín

El Tajín was the center of a large city that flourished from around 600 to 1200 CET. The site today consists of a large number of well restored pyramids and temples. The site El Tajin is far lesser known than some other similar sites in that part of the world, such as Tikal and Chichén Itzá. But we have over the years visited all three of them, and can safely say that El Tajin is just as interesting and beautiful as the two others.

Zone: Acueducto

South of the city Pachuca the Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque, a water distribution system built in the 16th century, can be visited. The total length of the aqueduct is around 45 kilometres and the turf zone is placed next to its most spectacular section, namely where it crosses a valley and rests on slender and almost impossibly high stone arches.

Zone: JardinJuárez

The Zone JardinJuárez was yet another FTT on this trip. We passed this zone on our way to the world heritage site Xochimilco. Xochimilco is a vast network of canals and islands which for hundreds of years served as a transport system in the region. It was also there the farms producing food for the people who lived in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan were located.

Join Discord, the new Turf Forum

More and more turfers are finding their way to Discord, the new Turf Forum, but also so much more. So far 297 turfers have joined and 75 have linked their account to the Turf app by writing those five digit codes in one of the chats. This is a way to confirm the account as being a "true" turfer ie user of the Turf app. You can join the Turf Discord through Turf's homepage or directly by using THIS link.

Editor's Opinion

During April we have experienced several episodes of downtime with the Turf servers. Frustrating, I know, especially if you are out and about trying to take unique zones or fighting for a better placement in your league or just trying to take your Daily-5. Extra frustrating with no forewarning, but that is because the developers did not think the changes would cause downtime.

The downtime lately is due to changes related to the server structure, both the issue web and the Turf Wiki have been moved and hopefully it will work better, and faster now. This will probably not be the last downtime we will experience, because there is a lot going on in many areas of Turf as far as development of the app and its surrounding support pages. Yes, it is frustrating with downtime, but the improvements are worth it :) Any system needs maintenance to work well.

The new beta for iPhone has not had many bug reports, so a new version has been released to a store near you. The iPhone and Android app should be more on par with each other now. Since I am an Android turfer, I don't know how true this is. It is up to you all to compare notes with each other when you are out and about!

Remember to keep reporting bugs via the issue system! It is important that glitches in the application is reported, so they can be looked at and hopefully resolved.

Did you know...

...that warded/Turfa has set up Turf TV. Check it out HERE.

Turf Picture of the Month

Turf Picture of the Month in April is OldAberdour sent in by Veld.

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