Round Winners
Congrats First of all, huge congratulations to the winner of round 113110: Király M0112 from Skåne who took Finland! With nothing short of 1 200 000 points he ended up securing first place, gaining the Gold medal for his 19th medalefforts, Oberoff from Stockholm wanted to see if a part-feat of M0112's extraordinary dedication, endurance and hard work. This is the first time dad could win in Turf history that a Region-gold medal is awarded outside of Sweden, marking a unique milestone for future rounds. Király came second and then he went and biked home a was awarded not his first, nor second, but SIXTH Silver medal. DoctorDave from Östergötland earned ! Gammelturfen claimed his first bronze Bronze medalthis round, is this the beginning of another rising star? We'll see what will happen in the future...
Well done mates!
Turf Events
LusseTurf
Västerås annual Christmas event will take place Sunday the 8th of December and the event runs between 11.00-13.00. The venue opens at 10.15 am, and you are welcome to register at www.uturf.se but you can also register at the event.
Vb Winter Classic 2020
Turf Västerbotten wants to invite everyone to their yearly Winter event:
"There is winter, and there is winter. Then there is Västerbotten Winter Classic 2020! If you want to experience a real winter event, then make sure to make use of the leap-day (29th of February 2020) and join this classical event in Umeå. The event is organized by Turf Västerbotten. We can offer a special prize for the turfer who travels the furthest to experience our popular winter event, and some affordable nice accommodation (but you need to be speedy).
More information regarding registration etc will be posted on our web page: turfvasterbotten.wordpress.com ."
If you want your public event featured in Turf Insider, write to: insider@turfgame.com preferably at least two months in advance and add a web page if possible. After the event it is always fun to read a paragraph about it (winners, weather, funny episodes) and remember that a picture is always worth more than a 1000 words.
Musikhjälpen and SteelFM
December 9-15 is the Music Aid in Västerås and of course we will find something on Stora Torget. The theme of the Music Aid this year is ”Sex is not a weapon”, read more here. Turf Västmanland will ensure that there will be Crowdy takes (2 different attempts to get a Crowdy 144) as well as a digital collection box Turf för Musikhjälpen.
In Åland, the radio channel Steel-FM is organizing a collection for the Food Bank in Åland. It started on December 2 and will run until the New Year.
Turf Region BattleKulturf 2019 - 31st of August in Örebro
During On the next round31st of August, Dalarna is battling with region Kulturf took place in Örebro , Sweden. 77 turfers attended the event. Dritzz, wolf71swe and oerjan scored first, second and third place respectively in the bike heat, while Rappapå, elulf and it can be followed hereÖrebroTurfaren scored the top 3-placements in the foot heat. An evening dinner was held at the restaurant Svampen to round up the day. Certainly looks like an amazing event and evening!Mingel vid Svampen.[[Fil: https://turfportalenUnder construction.png|none|400px|thumb|Bilden saknas ladda gärna upp om du har]]Svampen middag.se/event/kampdalarnaorebro2019
The battle is between 29 turfers from Dalarna and 56 turfers from Örebro. The battle will finish on the 5th of January 2020. May the best team win!Swamp Expedition
Medal Vote 2019This round, seven turfers got together to plan out an excursion with the goal to take the zone ÖrnäsMardröm, located in a swamp in Lillsjöns nature reserve in the outskirts of Swedish capital city Stockholm.[[Fil:Under construction.png|none|400px|thumb|Bilden saknas ladda gärna upp om du har]]Swamp Patrol
During November After meeting up in Tinybath, the seven dedicated turfers could vote for set foot towards the next Turf medal from seven choicesswampland. The winning proposal way forward was ”Amount paved with screams, laughter, unforgiving terrain and even the surprise appearance of unique zones during one round”. Behind this mouthful is the idea to go for ”round unique zones”, a concept introduced by https://frut.zundin.se/unika.php. The zones taken does not have to be all time new unique zones to snake amongst the turfer, but unique for the current roundreeds. The Medal workshop is busy designing and naming the new medal, so keep an eye out for it!
The group eventually made it to the zone, and did a couple of zone takes. After the return back to the meetup area a couple of the brave turfers decided that the swamp adventure was not enough and took a plunge in Lillsjön, grabbing the water zone TrillaISjön.
BILDNow, you may think that this marks the ultimate end of the journey, but the Swamp Patrol, which is the now coined name of the swamp explorers, showed impressive dedication and kept on with the swamp exploration. On the way home, the group passed by SäbyNightmare, another zone located in what can be only be described as Shreks paradise, and decided to take that zone as well.
At this point, three members of the Swamp Patrol remained. All three did a successful take of the zone SäbyNightmare, before two unbelievably dedicated turfers in the end decided that all of this was not enough and set foot to grab BonanzaTräsk, located in... yes, you guessed it – a swamp. The take of BonanzaTräsk, accompanied by a swarm of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, marked the end of the day, with a snack in the swamp and dinner to, most likely, celebrate the incredible feat of the day. We will see what awaits in the future from the Swamp Patrol.
In the mud...
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Amongst the reeds...
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Well done mates: Peterspirea, Mr__Noodle, hjulpynt, JKJE, mowog, Rickshaw and Anniña.
Let's talk about Abuse
Sometimes turfers take advantage of Ask the game in a negative way and break the few rules Community: ”You know that exist. Since Turf Crew you are not all-seeing, any turfer that discovers a rule violation can write to abuse@turfgameTurf veteran when.com . Do not blame or question the behavior of a specific turfer in public, since it rarely results in anything good, but could be devastating if the accused was not doing anything wrong. Report your suspicion to the abuse-mail instead. Different actions can be taken by Turf Crew depending on the kind of abuse and in some cases an assessment has to be done with regards to how serious the violation is.”
The most common rule violation is ”gps spoofing” where - ”You use Turf as the turfer is fooling the game GPS at work to believe the gps of the phone is in a specific zone while being somewhere else, usually at home by a computer. This is often done by newbies excited about trying their 'hacking' skills. This kind of abuse always result in the account being shut down/bannedfind customers.”
- ”You watch the news and exclaim ”I've taken that zone!””
Another common abuse of a Turf account is one account with several turfers. This is usually done out of naivety about the rules. A warning by e-mail is often enough for the turfers involved ”You refer to come to their senses and stop sharing one account. If a warning is not enough, the account is banned. Unsuitable Turf nicks are changed by Turf Crew when brought to the attention zone names instead of official names of Turf Crew via the abuse-mail and the turfer is informed by e-mail about why the nick was inappropriatelocations.”
- ”You have a hard time reading a map if it lacks marked zones.”
One turfer having two accounts is NOT abuse, nor is 'armpit turfing' (blocking the phone's gps signal by putting the phone in the armpit when - ”You celebrate your birthday more often than you are in the zone), although many feel these are moral grey zones. Turfing by car is not against the rules either and hence is not abuse. If traffic rules are broken while turfing, it is a matter between the turfer and the police, not a matter for Turf Crew, just as a turfer who bikes or walks also has to obey the local traffic rulesrank up.”
- ”You refer to eras as pre-Turf and post-Turf.”
Another kind of abuse that can lead to repercussions are foul language in the chats in the Turf app. The first step is usually a short temporary chat-ban (the turfer can still use the app and take zones, but can no longer write in the chats). If a short temporary chat-ban is not enough to deter the turfer from abusing the chat privileges, a longer chat-ban is put in place, sometimes lasting 'forever'. In really severe cases, the account can be shut down. Turf Crew can also ”clean” the different Turf chats by removing the foul language if it is deemed necessary.Lundkvist update
Tip of Counties where you once have taken all zones, turning them "yellow" on the month: The Turf Schnapps songmap, and where new zones have been added afterwards, will now make the county show up as orange on the map. Sweet!
Christmas time is upon us and warm drinks are a nice way to finish a turf session. If you are having a drink with friends this Swedish Turf schnapps song might be a fun way to break Tip of the ice.month: Finding out who has the Region Lord bonus
Turfzonen kommer Turfers who currently are Region Lords are accompanied by a Region Lord crown next to their name on the leaderboards. Use this to figure out who is region lord in your region, country or personal top list, and how many zones are owned by the turfer. It may help you plan out the amount of zones needed to acquire the crown yourself (melody: Punschen kommer/Elvira Madiganand maybe who you should take zones from, text by mpmokebut you didn't hear that from me).
Zonen kommerTurfWiki is now open, zonen kommer, ny och gulbig time to get the Wiki Expandator medal
Zonen kommer, zonen kommer, ny och gulTurfWiki is now open for public editing and account creation. Create or edit your favourite article on the biggest knowledge database about Turf. The rare medal "Wiki Expandator" is now within reach for many more turfers out there. Now it's easier than ever to get started and grab that medal yourself!
Skål för alla nyaTurf, skål för varje zonNaviki and the release in Germany
Inga sorger finnas mer när zon vi får!Turf has been officially released in Germany, together with a new partnership with the navigation app Naviki. Now you can see Turf zones as points of interest in Naviki, thus helping you create effective routes between zones. You can check out Naviki here.
Wishing you a great new round, happy turfing!
Turfa lugntSincerely/Safe turfing!PaltN & Turf Crew
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