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Round winners – March 2023 (Round #153)

Congratulations to the winners of round March 2023: retsirK from Skåne had the time of his life going for Gold, Jomii from Värmland decided he needed another Silver and skäggfar from Västmanland took 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 :)

Bonanza 2023 in Umeå

The Bonanza in Umeå is happening soon, have you signed up, booked where to stay and arranged how to get there? The main event of the Turf World is organized by Turf Västerbotten on the 20th of May with events in two classes, a Bonanza banquet and lots of other fun activities. Sign up for the Bonanza 2023 can be found HERE. See you in Umeå in May! :)

Apart from the Bonanza, there are two more Events in the North of Sweden coming up. June is the best time of the year up there in my personal opinion (lived up there for the first 30+ years of my life), so if you have not been, go!

Luleå2023

Luleå2023 in Luleå, Sweden 10th of June.

More information will come closer to the date.

VbMidniteC23

VbMidniteC23 in Umeå, Sweden 17th of June.

Midnight Classic is back in Umeå and it is the only 2-hour event that takes place during two days, starting at 11 pm and finishing at 1 am. It really makes the most of the bright summer nights this far north in Sweden. Turf Västerbotten are currenlty very busy with the Bonanza, so very little information is available, but I am sure it will come, so keep an eye open HERE.

Gbg Open in Göteborg, Sweden 1st of July

Turf Göteborg will host the 10th in a row Gbg Open in Göteborg this year. Information about the event will be found HERE closer to the event.

ABOA Turf in Turku, Finland 5th of August, 2023

The Turku turfers have been planning an event for many years, and it has finally come to fruitation. How about visiting Finland this summer? I sure will!

”The oldest and boldest city of Finland, Turku (Åbo) invites all turfers to join the world's first Turf open event outside Sweden. It's a 2 hour foot event in the city centre around our beautiful river Aura. Turku is a city of seven hills and in the event you can conquer many of them. Turku is easy to reach from Sweden so we hope to see also many Swedish turfers in Turku! More info: https://aboaturf.webnode.fi/

Sincerely, Xtrmrunner”

I am sure the Turku turfers would love to see turfers from all over the Turf world at their Event, so be there! :)

Turf Awards 2022 – Time to vote!

Turf Awards is awarded to turfers who have made significant or particularly attentive achievements during the previous year or have been involved in an especially noted or spectacular zone takeover.

Crew couldn't help themselves, so they played a little April Fools day joke with the nominations, hope it gave you a chuckle and no hard feelings. 30 people voted and here is the results the category Turfer of the Year where ALL the nominations were FAKE.

The real nominations for 2022 are now up and you can vote HERE. Vote for someone you know or someone you think did something heroic, extra-ordinary or just plain crazy! It is all a part of Turf :)

Turf Clubs/Associations

A new section in Turf Insider for Club News and Club introductions. We have many Turf Associations around the Turf world. This is a space where they can get their news heard. Write to insider@turfgame.com if you have any Club news you want to see here :)

• Turf Skånes club championship takes place Saturday 13 May, read more here. We also want to remind about our monthly Turf meets (Turfträffar) which take place Thursdays after round starts. In April we meet in Malmö and in May in Helsingborg - see full calendar here. Turfträffar are open for all, you don't need to be member of the club :)

Turf Göteborg has been around for quite a few years and has regular monthly get-togethers and a few well organized events under their belt. Here is an introduction to the Club by happyf:

”We started in 2014 and had 60 members last year, mostly in the Gothenburg area. One of our activities is hosting an open event, GBG Open. On July 1st we will host it for the 10th time in a row.

We also have our club championship for our members, normally in the fall. Since we are situated in a large region, Västra Götaland, a lot of zones are hard to reach without a car, so we organize excursions where we join up and turf our way to some remote zones. One year we visited Hindens rev, and last year we pointed the compass towards Västra Götaland's summit zone Galtåsen and after that a zone in a large bog, Komossen. Of course there are more zones taken during our trip.

The first Wednesday after each round start, we meet up in Gothenburg to discuss turf and whatever. The last couple of years we have been at Evas Paley in Gothenburg, close to the zone NonViolence. So if you are in the area then, please join us. We start at 18 o'clock. A couple of Sundays each summer, we meet in the large park Slottsskogen. Last year, and hopefully this year as well, we had mini-events then. We will post exact dates later on.

Check the Turf Göteborg Facebook page or read more about us (in swedish) on our web page, https://www.turfgoteborg.se/ ”

Spring supposedly sprung here in Uppsala earlier in March and then we were hit with lots of snow. I had time for one longer Turf ride with my summer bike, hopefully it will be able to come out soon again :) Although very few things are as beautiful as sunshine, blue skies and snow, but I am ready for some green leaves on the trees and an evening bike ride without needing extra lights.

Turf Picture of the Month

This months Turf Picture is of the zone TollarpFlower taken by modernangel. Most contributions this month were of snow, blue skies and sunshine. Turf Insider choose this month to focus on what is coming, and what has already come in certain parts of the Turf world.

This picture was chosen by Turf Insider for it's "Turf feeling" among many great pictures. 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!

Did you know...

...the issue reporting system is VERY slow. It is enough to press once when submitting an issue and then have patience, count to 500 ;) Many times the same issue gets reported 3-5 times because it feels like nothing is happening and the submitt button is pressed again and again and again... It IS happening, just very slow. Patience my dear! Thank you :)

Happy Easter!

Turfa lugnt/Safe turfing!

//Munin