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Yesterday afternoon (CET) turf was down a few hours. Once the game was back online, there was a few hours more before the api feed was functional. This means that third party sites didn't receive the takes that happened during the second period, and thus showed and possibly still shows distorted information. While we see if this can be sorted, please be aware that you may see misleading information. In particular, don't drop your daily because you were called out, if you believe you did your five takes Monday.

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What's new?

League & Group in player profiles

Tapping on any player now shows their current league and group (e.g. "League 5-21") in the profile dialog.

GPS reliability improvements

Several fixes for GPS-related issues, particularly on devices that struggled to complete zone takeovers:

Fixed a bug affecting certain Android devices (including some Huawei models) where zones could not be taken due to incorrect GPS timestamps

The takeover meter now waits for a reliable GPS signal before completing, and shows a visual indicator while waiting instead of failing silently

Fixed a bug where the zone-taking notification sound played repeatedly while the app was waiting for GPS

Improved GPS accuracy filtering at startup to reduce position jumping during the first few seconds of a session

Settings

App version and build date are now shown at the bottom of the Settings screen.

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Turf Insider is a monthly newsletter written and edited by Munin

Technical issues prevented the sending of the monthly mail to users during February. You can always read Turf Insider on Turf's homepage.

Round winners – February 2026 (Round #188)

Congratulations to the winners of round February 2026: Király from Skåne biked home another Gold, féarglas from Scotland added a 5th Silver to her medal row and ZonerX from Stockholm turfed home a Bronze to keep his Golds and Silvers company. Well done mates!

Upcoming events

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 :)

SåsTurf, 25th of April, 2026 in Alingsås, Sweden

MaXi is again organising SåsTurf. This year it will be in and around the lovely Floraskogen in Alingsås. If you want to sign up, you can do it HERE. There will be two heats, one Foot event and one Bike event. You can join one or both.

SCOnanza 5-7th of June, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

SCOnanza moves west this year - we can't wait to see you 5th-7th June in Glasgow! There'll be a Foot Turf event on Friday evening with drinks afterwards to welcome everyone to the city. Saturday will feature the Scottish Open Cycle and Foot Turf events with dinner and prizegiving later on. And on Sunday, a Foot Turf event unique to Glasgow - it's a surprise!! Full details and sign-up form are found HERE.

Whether you usually Turf in Scotland or beyond, hope to see you here in Glasgow! //Dangermous & team

Bonanza 2026 – September 5th in Gothenburg Sweden

The registration for this year's Bonanaza is open now. Read more on Turf Göteborg's webpages.

Swedish info HERE.

English info HERE.

The Göteborg turfers welcome you all to the West side of Sweden for some good Bonanza fun in September.

A Zone Worthy of a Detour – by Cissiliana

SandISibirien is a zone I often return to. Despite the name, it is located in Skåne and despite Skåne, the environment most closely resembles a Mediterranean beach. What otherwise stands out is that horses come here to bathe, which is a fun and lovely sight. I have seen both horse and carriage teams and riders. The zone is also next to the monument zone UFOMonumentet for the alien-interested and the beautiful forest to the north, Kronoskogen, which is a favorite place for a bike ride. Continue along the entire coast along the Kattegattleden cycle path. Northwards it takes you all the way to Gothenburg and southwards to Helsingborg, both directions via beautiful peninsulas.

Thank you Cissiliana for you contribution! If you have your own special zone you'd like to tell the Turf World about, send a paragraph or two about it to insider@turfgame.com and let the Turf community learn more about it!

Server Hickups

February saw several server hickups affecting take overs and one even shut down the app for over 12 hours. Smaller hickups where event zones are showing up in the normal app have also occured. No one wants these interruptions, but they are a sign that Turf is evolving and a big thanks to everyone that reported these ”hickups” via the issue system. It lets the developers know about the problem and also gives important clues to what might be the root cause.

Did you know...

...that Warded has had another make over? Check it out HERE.

Editor's Opinion

Turf Goals...we all have them. It can be everything from just taking one zone during a round in order to get Turf Insider sent to you (if you have agreed to have e-mail sent to you) to winning Gold. Goals change with time. When I started I wanted to take at least one unique zone every time I went for a session...this became quite hard pretty fast when I could be on my bike out turfing four times a day! It changed to at least 50 unique zones per round and then to 50 unique zones per round in average during a year (allowing me fewer uniques in winter).

Even before the Daily medal, I wanted to take at least 5 zones when I was out turfing, to get a session on Warded :) Painting zones purple in Warded (zones are coloured purple on the map in Warded when you have taken them 51 times or more) is another goal I am working on most of the time (I am less enthusiastic about this if it's raining). Some people collect a certain kind of zones (water, Monument, Holy – my fave is winner zones!) and others want to take Assist with as many different turfers as possible (a top list TheCat is crushing). There is something for everyone in Turf, and you can also choose different goals depending on how you feel during a certain point in your life.

Turf Picture of the Month

Turf Picture of the Month in February is SortlandPier sent in by North_Wing.

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

...if you want to contribute to future Turf Insiders, send your story to insider@turfgame.com :) C'mon and share your big and small stories with the Turf world.

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There is currently an issue with zone takes, where the map in the app and on the homepage isn’t updated when a zone is taken over. It shows the owners as they were Saturday afternoon. On the homepage, you will see the current owner if you click on the zone.

But the game still runs, you can still turf, but somewhat blindfolded. You can see the actual owners and take times if you click on a zone on the home page map, or on some third party pages. To play in this scenario you must think of both zones that you may actually own (even if not shown in the app), the zone you want to take but also you can not take zones rightfully owned by someone else if the map shows you as the owner. The app trusts this and will not try to take it. Third, zones may be blocked, and this may also not show in the app. Whenever the server rejects a take if it for example is blocked or already yours, the green meter will go all the way up, but there will not be a takeover notification nor will the zone be striped. Please note that the meter reaching the top, doesn’t mean a takeover is made.

It is not known when this will be solved, nor if this will affect anything of the takeover history. As it looks right now, it is just a confusing display thing in the app but the full impact isn’t known until the issue is resolved.

//Turf Crew

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