Turf insider March 2023

« Turf insider February 2023

Turf insider April 2023 »

Round winners – February 2023 (Round #152)

Congratulations to the winners of round February 2023: Kygni from Norrbotten (formerly of Uppsala) took his third Gold in lovely winter conditions, Király from Skåne added another Silver to his medal row and Marcus_P from Hamburg turfed home his second 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 :)

Foot Event in Stockholm on April 29th

Turf08 invites everyone to a Foot Event on April 29th "somewhere in the southern part of Stockholm". It will start at 1 pm and last for 2 hours. There will be "fika" and prizes. More information closer to the date can be found HERE, including where the event will take place!

Bonanza 2023 in Umeå on May 20th

The Bonanza, the main event of the Turf World is organized this year 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. So far just over 160 turfers are registred. See you in Umeå in May! :)

Turf Awards 2022

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.

Nominations for Turf Awards 2022 closed on February 28th. Voting will open up in April, stay tuned!

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 Göteborg would like to invite new and old turfers, local and tourist turfers to their monthly “fika”. Come and join other turfers in Gothenburg at café Evas Paley (close to the zone NonViolence) 6 pm on the first Wednesday in the new round. For the March round the meet-up is on the 8th of March.

Turf Stockholm has been around since 2014. Mr_Noodle wrote a short introduction for Turf Insider.

“The Turf association Turf08 Stockholms Län arranges events and Turf meetings in the Stockholm area. Currently the association has around 100 members. The association has arranged a number of Bonanza events, the latest one in 2019.

Both bicycle and walking events are held annually, often as open events and are free for everyone to join. And no event is held without some nice prizes to event winners and coffee, tea and fika to everyone. And there has been a number of barbecue meetings and shorter events over the years. The association is also a sponsor for prizes to Turf winners in Stockholm both for round winners and other turf events.

Next turf event is scheduled for April 29th, this time a walking event. So bring your mobile phone and a smile on your face and meet up in Stockholm. Our web site is http://nyheter.turf08.se

During the last round, many turfers have enjoyed the vivid Northern Lights playing in the skies during evenings. From Kygni in Luleå biking along one evening going for Gold to canon in Nyköping just going for a few zones after dinner, February was a good month to see Northern Lights in large parts of Sweden. Photo below by canon.

If you are lucky, you might even come across a moose as Kygni did between two zones.

Introduction to PaintHelper by praktikus

PaintHelper is a third party page where you can get help with ”painting the zones”, something very many turfers are addicted to. The turfer behind this page, praktikus, has been a turfer since 2014 and here is the story behind PaintHelper in his own words. Link to PaintHelper: painthelper.knzoon.se

”In recent years, I have become obsessed with what many turfers call ”painting”. That is, based on the colors that appear on the page "Map of my unique zones" on warded.se. I then experienced that after a while it became difficult to get an overview of how I best optimize my turfing in order to, for example, increase the amount of red zones. Just over a year ago, I was on sick leave due to burnout syndrome and during my recovery it was a fitting therapy to put this page together. Also very educational and fun :)

What can it be used for? As the name reveals, it is meant to help with painting the zones in Turf. Firstly, it is easy to filter the zones both by the number of takes and by Area/Municipality. Then you can, for example, search for all zones in your municipality that have between 7 and 10 takes to see which ones are closest to turning orange (a minimum of 11 takes). Another nice feature is that it shows untaken zones in the same map as taken zones. On warded you have to look at two different maps to see both taken and untaken.”

I have yet to try out PaintHelper, but if ”painting” zones fast and in the most optimal order is your goal, then this is the page for you!

Turf Picture of the Month

This months Turf Picture is of the zone BorenPier taken by Miawita.

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!

Turfa lugnt/Safe turfing!

//Munin