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Round winners – April 2024 (Round #166)

Congratulations to the winners of round April 2024: pPilot from Scotland took Gold with a large marginal to 0beroff from Stockholm who secured a Silver by biking all over Stockholm, uppuppuppner from Västra Götaland took home his first 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 the news letter :)

SCOnanza aka Scottish Turf Open – Saturday June 1st

The Scottish Turf Open Championships is BACK in Edinburgh at the start of June for its second year! Click HERE for more information. This is the second installment of this already legendary event. And HERE is where you sign up for this Event.

24h Event 7th of June in Luleå June

You can participate in the event either by bike or foot and be in a team or do the entire Event by yourself. If you want to play in a team but don´t have teammates, write that in the registration formula and the organizer will try to set up a team for you. Note that you have to register since the event is gonna be private when it occurs. But you will be awarded the special Event24 medal.

Sign up and get more details HERE:

You can book a room at Scandic between the 5th and the 10th of june using the code luleturf2424 and get 10% off. You need to book via this e-mail: lulea@scandichotels.com

Göteborg Open, Saturday 6th of July

Why not visit Gothenburg for our annual foot and bike event? Read all about it our website: www.turfgoteborg.se/2024/05/06/turf-gbg-open-2024/

Skåne Open, 24th of August

Participation will give you the event medal. Details will come later this summer but you can sign up already now HERE.

Bonanza 2024 on the 14th of September in Enköping

More news will follow when we get closer to the date! Don't forget to mark the date in your calendar!

World Heritage Zones – part 2

It is the Turf Crew's ambition that all World Heritages on UNESCO's list should have one zone. If UNESCO demotes a world heritage and removes it from the list the attribute should be removed. This happened with the Victorian docs in Liverpool as they lost their historical values due to new developments in the areas. Sometimes we miss when a WH has been removed, feel free to make an issue if you are aware.

We have made WH zones up until the ones approved by UNESCO 2021. There was no World Heritages approved in 2022 (Corona). We will shortly start working on the new ones from 2023. We use the UNESCO web site as an aid when creating the WH zones, click HERE.

Zones are placed within the WH boundary, even if the zone is in grounds where you have to pay, or in places where you could only take the zone with satellite data connection (like Amazonas).

We don’t move them for convenience, only if they are dangerously placed or physically inaccessible or by mistake are outside the actual WH.

You can find all WH zones using third part tools like Lundkvist or UrbanGeeks Turf Map Tool, use the Tag filter.

Last Turf Insider allinug and FeTaTo shared their experiences with visiting WH zones. This time we will hear from allinug again.

”Now that I have returned home after two months of "World Heritage slalom" by train, I am beginning to sum up my impressions: 39 World Heritage sites spread over France, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, Belgium and Denmark. There were, of course, some other interesting zones as well, although it was often sparse among them. In Monaco, Andorra and Ireland, I had to do without World Heritage sites, although there are such in the two latter countries. Many of them are cathedrals and other impressive buildings. But the World Heritage site that I appreciated the most during the "second half" of my trip was the natural phenomenon at Giant's Causeway on the north coast of Northern Ireland:

"...an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres (92 ft) thick in places. According to legend, the columns are the remains of a causeway built by a giant." (excerpt from Wikipedia)

Turf statistics Warded

For those that have missed it, the first stop for Turf statistics, Warded, have had a bit of a make-over and now have a few more Top lists and a new layout. One new Top List is for Revisits, something that gave a new status to a turfer in Turku, Finland.

Revisit Turf God by Petter69

After realizing that one of our local fellow turfers, ojarnstr, had many MANY more Revisits than anybody else I had to catch up with him to understand why. He chose one of his favorite zones, HundbananStep in Pargas for our meeting. By the way, zone HundbananStep is a very nice zone up the 470 steps with a beautiful view over the well known Pargas limestone quarry. HERE you can find more information about Hundbanan, unfortunately only in Swedish and Finnish

After climbing up the steps and taking the zone, it was time for some questions.

When and why did you start turfing?

• I started in July 2013 after reading an article in the newspapers about Turf. I was a gamer and liked being out in nature, so I thought this would be perfect for me. And I've been playing ever since. I was actually the first player on mainland Finland. Back then it was a different game obviously, with only a few zones to visit. I have never won a round, but round 42 I was no 1 in Finland.

So why do you have so many Revisits?

• Even if we have some legendary and active turfers in my city, like M0112, spagetti, Tagliatelle, Grandi, there have been longer times when I have nearly been alone. So I have not actively tried to be no 1 with Revisits, but I live in a city where it has just happened.

Which zone do you have the most Revisits on?

• That has to be Tummelstenen, closest to where I live and on the way to work. Probably a couple of thousand Revisits on that zone.

How are you going to celebrate when you reach 50.000 Revisits (now 44.000)?

• Ha, I'm not planning on celebrating that, more now aming on reaching 25 million points in total to climb to rank 59.

Have you ever approximated how many points more you would have had without having to take so many Revisists?

• No, but as I normally make one longer Turf bicycle round per day, I normally tend to make some 50k points a week. When other players are active, I make some 100k points a week, so I guess you could estimate something from that if you wanted.

So a couple of rounding off questions at the end, Firstly, if you could change something with Turf, what would it be?

• Well, I think Turf is a great game and great games shouldn't make drastic or big changes, I think this has been perfect with Turf, sometimes something needed adjustments, but no big changes. Now as we talk about revisits, I have suggested shortening the revisit time from 23 to let's say 12 hours. Then I wouldn't have to wait until Saturday evening doing my next round on a sunny weekend day, if I had made a round after work on Friday evening.

Lastly, what is your best Turf memory?

• Definitely our ABOA Turf Open last summer, that was great. We had hoped for some 50 participants, but 83 turfers from several countries showed up. It was so nice to meet all turfers in real life.

Keep on turfing!

We hope to read more about the recent updates to Warded and its care takes, if Turf Insider manages to pin him down between his Turf rounds.

One week Region Battle

The third week of the April round something new took place. It was a new take on the Region battle many of us have been part of in the last few years. This time the Battle was one week instead of one Round. 21-28 April the first ever one-week regional competition was held between Scotland, Västra Götaland and Skåne, and that was also the order in which the teams ended up. This was a test in collaboration with turfportalen.se.

From Scotland féarglas summarizes the whole thing:

"Another regional battle but just three regions and with a twist that appealed to many in Scotland. A week was easier for people to know if they could commit the time and a nice length of time to commit to. The week of madness provided a welcome motivation after a long winter, encouraging us out more, meeting each other and working together. Despite a wet start where we wondered if cloud seeds had been sent from Gbg, the rest of the week was pleasant weather, dry and warm. Many medals and ranks were gained, many personal goals achieved, many kilometres covered. Those who wanted to go crazy went crazy while those who preferred a slower pace did so. There was something for everyone and a lot of fun was had. We enjoyed the 'dash for glory' a few hours before the end of each day, with a few very close endings that required enthusiasm and team effort. 'Many smalls make a big' became the motto and Scotland pulled together, winning the competition. A nice bonus to the rewards of taking part. Thank you to Skåne and VG, and to Turfportalen for developing, supporting and hosting."

Some additional comments from team members in VG and Skåne:

• A week is better than a month. Much easier to really make an effort.
• No mid round starts, the pph advantage is too big. 50 000 points/day for doing nothing! That's 3 times more than our average player took.
• Do (Swedish) calendar days 00-24 instead of 12-12. Makes it easier for the people working normal hours to turf in the evening to get a lead or catch up. Now you can only watch from the side and see the other teams gain.
• Overall all we really enjoyed the competition and the team spirit we got. Lots of cheering and having people turf a lot more than they normally do. Especially considering the cold weather we had.
• I thought it would be more exciting with just a week but I missed the tactical planning from one-month competitions.
• A week gives you very little time to compensate for temporary things that impact like bad weather, bike breakdowns or competing activities. At the same time, full speed ahead a full month is too much.
• Even if I'm retired I have competing things to do Monday-Friday, weekends are optimal for turfing. Perhaps have 16 day competitions starting on a Friday ending on a Sunday giving the teams three weekends to turf like hell.
• I would have preferred the same rule as in the Ultimate region fights for the red line, which is based on active turfers in the region.

Many things to consider for upcoming battles. Huge congratulations to the Scottish team!

Turf Picture of the Month

This months Turf Picture is of the zone SpårSpan taken by Fafng.

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