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== Round winners ==Congratulations to the winners of [[Round 127|round 127]]: [[User:KRALJICA|KRALJICA]] from [[Region: Skåne|Skåne ]] turfed home her third [[Gold medal|Gold]], [[User:Björke|Björke]] from [[Region:Östergötland|Östergötland]] turfed home his second [[Silver medal|Silver]] and [[User:floramcml|floramcml]] added a [[Bronze medal|Bronze]] to his Silver. All medal winners turfed home over 1 million [[Poäng|points]]. Well done, mates! In addition, four turfers on Top Ten this round were not from [[Country:Sweden|Sweden]], things are changing :)
==Turf [[Bonanza]] 2021==I am sure many were as disappointed as me when the [[Bonanza: Örebro 2020|Turf Bonanza 2020]] had to be cancelled last year. [[Turf Crew]] is pleased to announce that the newly formed [[Turf association|association]] [[Örebro Turfers]] (not to be confused with [[Örebro Turfförening]]) will host the world championship in [[Turf]] - [[Bonanza: Örebro 2021|Turf Bonanza 2021]]. The event will be held on September 4, in [[Municipality: Örebro|Örebro]] [[Country: Sweden|Sweden]]. Save the date and book travel/accommodation right away. More information about this long awaited event will be released in springtime. Welcome to Örebro! [[File: Turf insider februari 2021.jpg|none|500px]]
* '''Best Turf achievement of the year 2020'''
Awarded to the [[Turfer]] who, for example, got the most gold medals, monthly medals, has taken the most zones, unique zones, regions or equivalent in [[2020]].
* '''Turf Star of the Year 2020'''
Awarded to the Turfer who started turfing as a newbie in 2020 and has made the fastest progress during the year.
* '''Turfer of the Year 2020'''
An open category to nominate a Turfer that exceled in an exemplary way without any connections to an individual Turf performance. This award can be given for anything, for example: efforts to spread Turf, marketing, organizing Turf events or a Turfer who has helped and supported others in a special way.
* '''Most Spectacular Zone Takeover of the Year 2020'''
Awarded to the Turfer, who has completed one of the most notable or spectacular zone takes in 2020.
===Nomination procedure=== In February [[2021]], all turfers have the opportunity to submit proposals on who should be nominated for the Turf Award in the different categories. A nomination proposal must include nickname and a brief motivation based on nomination criteria above. Link to the Google forms for proposing candidates can be found [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKw0WEMZN_UKt7dLfuGv2pfP0N32nUfJ0DDubJ_RtgJG3MPQ/viewform here] (open up January 26 and closes February 25 2021).
=== Voting procedure and announcement of winners ===
In March 2021, Turf Crew nominates a maximum of five candidates in each category. During April all turfers will be given the opportunity to vote for which of the nominees who should be awarded the Turf Award in each category. Link to voting form can be found [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKw0WEMZN_UKt7dLfuGv2pfP0N32nUfJ0DDubJ_RtgJG3MPQ/viewform here] (open up April 1 and closes April 30 2021).
==Turf Expansion in UK, Germany and the rest of the world==No one can have missed the huge expansion in the [[Country: United Kingdom|UK]] in the last few months. Turf is also starting to take off in [[Country: Germany|Germany]]. This has resulted in huge amounts of new [[zones]] in these two countries. UK and Germany are [[Turf on the map#Countries where Turf is officially available|official Turf countries]], so a major focus lately by the [[zone makers]] has been to supply the newbies in these particularly these two countries with zones. Turf was also at the end of [[2020]] made available to download in over 50 countries it hadn't been available in before. New turfers have been popping up in these countries too, often far away from any zones. A new feature to help these turfers were introduced in the app: a message to the turfer if there were no zones within a couple of kilometers, to write to [[Turf Crew]] and ask for zones in their area. About 20 such requests have been made and acted upon. Some newbies have found the Forum and asked for zones there. It also became a bit of a sport among the zone makers to watch [[Turf-TV]] and spot newbies in zoneless areas and give them a zone or ten ;)
Some less active than others ;)
==Suggesting [[Zone|Zones]] in the Forum==Suggesting zones in the Forum is one of the main roads to get the attention of a [[Zone makers|zone maker]]. The other being using the suggestion button (light bulb) in the Turf app to suggest good spots for new [[zones]]. But remember, these are only suggestions, and a great way to help zone makers not familiar with your area to find those extra special spots. The better you promote it, often by a post in the Forum, the more likely a zone maker will see it and act upon it. But zone makers are under no obligation whatsoever to make your zone suggestion become a reality. There is no general policy about zone making in non-Turf countries, it happens now and then when someone 'gets a feeling'.
The Turf Forum has now been equipped with subgroups for each Region in the Official Turf countries. For the best result when you post about your zone suggestions in the Forum, find the country and region, then write the town and area (”kommun” in Swedish) in the title of your post. In Sweden, we have for as long as I've been zone maker, had ”kommunansvar”/”municipality (area) responsibility” for zone making and we change every four months. We no longer have region responsibility in Sweden, if someone still remembers those old days. In other countries, due to much less activity, zone makers have had the same region for a longer time period, some even have entire countries(!). That is about to change, I've been told. With more zone makers, we can rotate responsibilities abroad as well as in Sweden. This will assure zones of every variety, since each zone maker has their own flair when it comes to making zones :)
So, to recap: apply for an account at [https://forum.turfgame.com/ Turf Forum], find your country section of interest, find the Zones section, find the [[Region]] you want to make a zone suggestion in and write a post asking nicely for zones in your specific area. The post should as a minimum have a title with town and area in it so that the zone maker responsible for that area can easily find it. If you suggest one zone or many, does not matter so much, but we like zone suggestions with a bit of local history. Pictures are nice, but difficult to upload in the forum, add a link instead if you can :)
A zone maker colleague of mine thinks the optimal zone suggestion contains: location (on a map or with coordinates, or a link to eg open street map. Personally, I want the name of the closest existing zone so I can easily look for it in the zone making tool), a nice motivation for the zone, a picture or historical map and please, please a local name suggestion of a maximum of 13 characters. Local names are often tied nicely to the location and are less likely to already exist somewhere else.
==Digital Turf Meetings== For lots of turfers the monthly or even weekly Turf get-togethers such as Turf Fika, Turf Beer or Turf Brunch came to a more or less abrupt end with the Covid-19 pandemic last year. Instead some turfers are now gathering online, in digital meetings. In [[Region:Uppsala|Uppsala]] and [[Region:Västmanland|Västmanland]] the monthly get-together was digital in January. I asked two turfers to contribute with their take on digital meetings. Enjoy! ===Safe board meetings during a pandemic by [[User:Ninetail|Ninetail]], Umeå, Västerbotten=== In order to have as broad a geographical representation as possible, the board of [[Turf Västerbotten]] consists of turfers from [[Municipality:Umeå|Umeå]], [[Municipality:Skellefteå|Skellefteå]] and [[Municipality:Öravan|Öravan]]. This means that even before the pandemic struck, some of us either had to travel far or participate via cell phone or using other solutions. If you have participated in a meeting via cell phone, you know that it does not work perfectly. It became even more difficult when at the beginning of the pandemic we switched to keeping at least two chairs distance between all meeting participants - it simply became impossible to place the cell phone so that everyone could hear and be heard.
=== Safe board meetings during a pandemic by [[User: Ninetail|Ninetail]], Umeå, Västerbotten ===
In order to have as broad a geographical representation as possible, the board of [[Turf Västerbotten]] consists of turfers from [[Municipality: Umeå|Umeå]], [[Municipality: Skellefteå|Skellefteå]] and the village Öravan. This means that even before the pandemic struck, some of us either had to travel far or participate via cell phone or using other solutions. If you have participated in a meeting via cell phone, you know that it does not work perfectly. It became even more difficult when at the beginning of the pandemic we switched to keeping at least two chairs distance between all meeting participants - it simply became impossible to place the cell phone so that everyone could hear and be heard.
When firmer restrictions were imposed in Sweden, we realized that it was time to try to find a more sustainable solution. We chose Microsoft Teams, as the service offers both document storage and opportunity for digital meetings. The most recent board meetings have been completely digital and the technology has worked well. The degree of participation in the meetings has increased as no one needs to travel and you can participate even if you have symptoms. In fact, it has also become easier to work with common documents during meetings. One problem that remains to be solved is how to sign physical documents. For the time being, we have appointed members to check the minutes who live close to each other so that they can meet afterwards. Preparations are currently underway for the annual meeting. This will also be digital this year. Hopefully this means that even more turfers from all over the region have the opportunity to participate - our goal is to be an association for the whole region of Västerbotten. There is certainly much more you can do digitally as well, even if what we probably long for most is to be able to meet physically and eat or turf together.
===Report from Digital Turf meeting in Uppsala by [[User:mpmoke|mpmoke]]===
There has been few Turf meetings in Uppsala during 2020 due to the pandemic and it is sorely missed. As a turfer, you want to meet up with your fellow turfers now and then over brunch, coffee or a beer, and dive into nerdy Turf talk, share zone shots, talk about purple coloring of the zones in warded, missions, celebrate region round winners, welcome new turfers and hang out with all the turfers! Many have had digital meetings with work, school, relatives and friends and why not do it with the whole Turf gang?! I myself am most used to Zoom and think it has worked best of the programs I have tried. To avoid people talking in each other's mouths and having some kind of control, a simple program was suggested where we would have a simple quiz game, someone would tell us about odd zone takes. The entire Turf meeting would be limited to about 1 hour. The invitation was made via our local Hangout and a post in the local Facebook group Turf Uppsala.
Overall, I think it was a successful and pleasant Turf meeting. Well worth repeating. What you can think of is to try to test sound and image before the meeting, turn off the mic when you do not intend to talk to avoid drowning out those who talk, have an agenda for the meeting to steer up a little and get people started. We used Zoom, but it may be worth trying other programs as well. The main thing is that we met in some way and kept the geek going until we can meet for real again when the pandemic has blown over.
==Upcoming Region Battle in March== In March [[Region:Scotland|Region Scotland]] will battle [[Region:Skåne|Region Skåne]] during four weeks, so don't be surprised if the Top 100 will be filled with turfers from Scotland and Skåne :) The Region teams and battle can be followed on turfportalen.se. Read more here about the set up. May the best team win!
Turfa lugnt!/Safe turfing!
//[[User:Munin|Munin]]
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