Turf insider Februari 2025
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Round winners – December 2024 (Round #174) and January 2025 (Round #175)[redigera]
Congratulations to the winners of round December 2024: Király from Skåne decided he wanted another Gold, uppuppuppner from Västra Götaland went for Silver and IndoorsyHermit from Skåne added a Bronze to his Gold. Well done mates!
Congratulations to the winners of round January 2025: sarasota from Halland secured a first Gold, nicos from Berlin took his second Silver and uppuppuppner took his second Bronze. Well done mates!
There has been requests to interview the top achievers in the rounds, Turf Insider does not have the possibility to do this. But if you, as a private turfer, wants to do it and send the piece to insider@turfgame.com, it will for sure get published. This goes for texts about just anything Turf related. I, Munin, see myself more as an Editor of Turf Insider than the sole writer of it. I believe it will be a more interesting News letter, if it contains content from more than one person. So, please send me your stories, big and small, personal or more general. If I, by some miracle, will get an avalance of mail in the next weeks, I will have to save some stories for later. Just remember, I might edit your piece a bit to make it fit in Turf Insider. English is the preferred language, but if you want you can write it in your native language, and I will translate together with Google :)
Upcoming events[redigera]
If you are organising 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 newsletter :)
VBWinterC25, 22nd of February in Umeå, Sweden[redigera]
Read more about it HERE. This is an Event for warm-blooded turfers to take on the cold of Northern Sweden. It is a bike and foot event taking place at the same time.
LuleåIce25, 15th of March in Luleå, Sweden[redigera]
After the success of last year, LuleåIce is back. Information and how to sign up is found HERE.
Åland Open, 24th of May in Mariehamn, Åland[redigera]
For the second time, Mariehamn (Åland) will host two Events on the same day.
Bonanza 2025: 7th of June in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK[redigera]
The first Bonanza outside of Sweden will be held in Edinburgh in June 2025, and is a must for all. Please pre-register your interest by completing this form, and join the 48 already pre-registered. See you in Edinburgh!
As of 2nd of April, most of us will need a ETA to travel to UK. Read more HERE. It opens for applicaion on the 5th of March.
Uppsala2025, 28th of June in Uppsala, Land:Sverige:Sweden[redigera]
Kygni is organising an Event this summer in the town he started turfing in. It will be a 3 hour Event, with zones on both land and in the water. Stay tuned!
Uppsala is a very active Turf City with lots of local turfers and many zones. If you have never been to Uppsala, June is a very nice time to visit :)
Report from Turf Skåne's "Nyårslöftet" by Kingslayer[redigera]
Turf Skåne traditionally hosts the first event every year - Nyårslöftet (“The New Year’s resolution”) which is a 90 minute foot event that takes place on January 1st. For the first time since the start in 2017 we had to postpone it a few days this year due to the weather – turfing in a park full of old trees in storm is likely not a good idea. The event was postponed until January 5th and instead of storm the participants had to navigate icy paths in Malmö Kungspark. Unexperienced mugglers was seen diving and sprawling on the ground, but none of the participants had any accidents. Winner of the event was Podde who took a bus and train from the darkest of Småland just to participate. He was followed by IndoorsyHermit, ZepLeddelin (who has participated in all Nyårslöften since the start) and mrSpock. If you visit Skåne over New Year holidays remember that we (almost) always host this event on January 1st!
From left: Podde, mrSpock, IndoorsyHermit and ZepLeddelin.
Turf Travels and Zones[redigera]
When you travel outside of the official Turf countries, you often feel that Turf zones are lacking. You might even feel zones are lacking in official Turf countries in your next vacation spot. The zone makers in Crew, makes zones in their spare time and so far the order of importance has been Official Turf Countries first followed by a few special projects such as World Heritage Zones. Requests for zones of a more touristy nature, have been of a lower priority, and most often not acted upon when a turfer discovers they have planned a vacation to a zone desert and at the last minute written about it in social media. It is discussed now and then in Crew how to handle requests in non-official Turf countries. Usually what it boils down to, is time. Zone makers make zones in their free time and we can't make zones everywhere, so we have to have a priority list. In general, touristy zones are made in locations with a lot of tourists, such as Paris, Spain and Thailand. We are also not all-knowingly about good places to make zones and that is why we often refer to the Forum.
However, the Forum has its issues. It is often the victim of Spam attacks. If you get an Error message when trying to log in, be patient and try again later. It is not something you have done, that prevents you from logging in. Using your allocated Zone Suggestions in the Turf app every round to make zone suggestions, is also a good way to help with making new zones. Most zone makers use this feature of the zone creation tool. Zone makers are required to read the Forum, but are not required to act on the suggestions/request. The Forum is also sometimes hard to navigate. If the area/city is not stated in the title of the post in the Forum, it is very hard for the zone maker to know if the post is in an area they at the moment is responsible for. I do not read thru all the posts in the Forum, I am only interested in the posts regarding those areas I am currently responsible for. And we change area responsibility every 4 months. Also, it is hard to know at a glance which suggestions have been acted upon by other zone makers.
And remember, suggestions are only suggestions, as is the name you have given your suggestion. For information, there is no Turf factory that reviews the proposals received in turn and stamps them with "yes" or "no". How it works (in Sweden and in UK) is that a zone maker has 4 months to add a certain number of allocated zones per area. In the job description, it is said that Forum threads for the relevant area should be read (however, nothing is said about interacting or that these zone proposals have a higher priority). In the Forum, the suggester can add information that may not be obvious on the map. If you go this way, it is a very good idea to make sure that the name of the area (in Sweden, the municipality=kommun) is in the subject line, in order to identify the post to the correct zone maker. The zone maker can however put the zones whereever s/he wants.
During zone making, the suggestions made by all turfers in the app, can be shown on the map in the zone creation tool and the suggestions become a kind of heatmap of interest. Or just a blurr, because all proposals since 2012 that have not been realized show up. If you click on a suggestion, you can see the zone name and when it was suggested, but not by whom. So, it's a lottery if your suggestion will become a zone or not. You can choose to pick up your tickets every round and have a slightly higher chance of getting zones where you want them, or not. But don't look at a zone suggestion as something that will automatically lead to a zone in a certain place within a limited time. Maqqan wrote a very good Blog post about zone making some years ago, I think it is still a very good piece on the subject. You can find it HERE (original post from 2016) and an updated version from 2020 HERE.
And as always, remember that most things done by Crew, is done for free on a volunteer basis. We do our best with the time we have.
Did you know...[redigera]
...there are still 27 turfers in the Daily-5 race that began on the 4th of September, 2021. ...you can check your progess in the Daily-5 HERE.
Turf Picture of the Month[redigera]
Decmber's Turf Picture of the Month is from the zone ÅhlsKyrka by Lola_Lola
January's Turf Picture of the Month is from the zone AlléFotboll by eastmo.
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
