News and announcements by the Tramprennen-crew

Routes No.III & IV: Ernie & Bert hitchhiking through Poland and Ukraine

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After Kermit and Cookie Monster we’re happy to announce the 3rd and 4th route for Tramprennen 2012: Welcome Ernie & Bert!
Starting in Leipzig and Dresden, these two routes will lead us mostly through Poland and Ucraine. crossing the Carpathian Mountains, whoop whoop!

Route No.III: Ernie

Dresden (D) – Krakow (PL) – Zamosc (PL) – Lviv (UA) – Lyuta (UA) – Carei (RO) – Lake Surduc (RO)

The Route on Google Maps

Start: Dresden (Germany)
Size: large!
Water: the river Elbe passes the city withendless grassland
Important: football, watch this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BJ7BDtE8yI

1st stage: Krakow (Poland)
Size: large
Water: Vistula river passes through the city
Important: the second highest building of Krakow has never been finished and is now named “Skeletor”

2nd stage: Zamosc (Poland)
Size: small
Water: there is a lake (at least seen on Google Street view :P )
Important: the city is listed as UNESCO world heritage since 1992

3rd stage: Lviv (Ucraine)
Size: large
Water: 296m above sea level
Important: was capital of chocolate in Europa and is still famous for sweets :)

4th stage: Lyuta (Ucraine)
Size: small
Water: three rivers (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene! :D)
Important: The European Rainbow Gathering took place close to Lyuta in 2009

5h stage: Carei (Romania)
Size: small
Water: not sure about that
Important: a Romanian football player was born in Carei

6th stage: Lake Surduc (Romania)
Size: Lake!
Water: Lake!
Important: Lake!

Route No.IV: Bert

Leipzig (D) – Opole (PL) – Gródek nad Dunajcem (PL) – Lviv (UA) – Dolyna (UA) – Dej (RO) – Lake Surduc (RO)

The Route on Google Maps

Start: Leipzig (Former German Democratic Republic)
Size: large
Water: many new lakes surrounding the city
Important: played the significant role in instigating the fall of communism in Eastern Europe

1st stage: Opole (Poland)
Size: medium
Water: the Oder River changed its direction after a flood to the West in the 16th century. 400 years later, the people followed ;)
Important: the Penny Bridge

2nd stage: Gródek nad Dunajcem (Poland)
Size: small
Water: situated directly at a huge lake (says google Maps, we’ll see!)
Important: funny name

3rd stage: Lviv (Ucraine)
Size: large
Water: 296m above sea level
Important: was capital of chocolate in Europa and is still famous for sweets :)

4th stage: Dolyna (Ucraine)
Size: small
Water: nature
Important: By the end of the 19th century to big city fires destroyed the town completely

5th stage: Dej (Romania)
Size:
Water: wherethe Someşul Mic River meets the river Someşul Mare River
Important: Dej means Deus (God in Latin)

6th stage: Lake Surduc (Romania)
Size: Lake!
Water: Lake!
Important: Lake!

The first 2 Routes: From Gent and Copenhagen to the Surduc Lake

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Heya folks,
Here are the first two routes of Tramprennen 2012, the 4 other ones will be published within the next days aswell! :)
Start: 18th August 2012
End: 1st September 2012

First off, the theme of this year’s race: the heroes of our childhood days – the Sesame Street muppets! :)
Route No.I: Kermit the Frog, starting in Copenhagen!
Route No.II: Cookie Monster, starting in Gent!

We have chosen the routes randomly and we have no clue what to expect there. Maybe you’ll see the most beautiful village in the world, maybe the most terrible city you’ve ever seen…But to be honest: We don’t care. Isn’t that the reason of travelling, to expect nothing except the unexpected? It’s up to you to make it a special journey: Welcome to the playground called planet Earth! 8 Billion people worth to get to know, billions of birds and plants, of trees and leaves, lakes and seas! The goal is not to reach a specific place, but rather to go on an inspirational journey. And we’re looking forward to be on the road for two weeks with many many great people and hopefully you aswell!

And now: Let’s DANCE! :)

Cookies and Quacks to you!
Cheeers,
Tramprennen 2012-Crew! :)

Route No.I: Kermit the Frog

Copenhagen (DK) – Lüneburg (D) – Dresden (D) – Ostrava (CZ) – Banská Štiavnica (SK) – Szeged (HU) – Lake Surduc (RO)
The Route on Google Maps

Start: Copenhagen (Denmark)
Size: large!
Water: sun, beach, water
Important: the autonomous town of Christiana is still existing

1st Stage: Lüneburg (Germany)
Size: small for a city
Water: just culture!
Important: City, country, fun… the tourism slogan of the city..

2nd Stage: Dresden (Germany)
Size: large
Water: the river Elbe passes the city withendless grassland
Important: football, watch this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BJ7BDtE8yI

3rd Stage: Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Size: third largest city of the czech republic
Water: directly at the river Oder
Important: center of the heavy industries in the Size!

4th Stage: Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia)
Size: very small
Water: mountains!
Important: town wall from the 13th century and we meet the other route

5th Stage: Szeged (Hungary)
Size: third largest city of Hungary
Water: river mouth of the Mieresch in the Theis, 15 small lakes and 3 big ones
Important: sunniest city of Hungary

6th Stage: Lacul Surduc
Size: Lake!
Water: Lake!
Important: Lake!

Route No.2: Cookie Monster

Gent (BE) – Kassel (D) – Prague (CZ) – Vranov nad Dyji (CZ) – Banská Štiavnica (SK) – Oradea (RO) – Lake Surduc (RO)
The Route on Google Maps

Start: Gent (Belgium)
Size: third largest city of belgium
Water: where the rivers Schelde and Leie crossing
Important: Gent is known as “the proud city” and “the city of flowers”

1st Stage: Kassel (Germany)
Size: medium
Water: on the river Fulda and very,very green
Important: famous for the art exposition “documenta”

2nd Stage: Prague (Czech Republic)
Size: large
Water: on the river Moldau
Important: the golden emperor city with the big night life

3rd Stage: Vranov nad Dyji (Czech republic)
Size: population: 845 people
Water: a dam just around the corner
Important: it’s a market town

4th Stage: Banská Štiavnica( Slovakia)
Size: very small
Water: mountains!
Important: town wall from the 13th century and we meet the other route

5th Stage: Oradea (Romania)
Size: medium
Water: the river Crisul Repede is crossing the city center
Important: since 2008 there are trams of type ULF in operation

6th Stage: Lacul Surduc
Size: Lake!
Water: Lake!
Important: Lake!

#5 meetingpoints & dates PreMeeting and racebegin!!

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Hey Friends!!

The 4 routes are full! 12 teams each route! The DonationCounter keeps rapidly increasing and less than a week until we’re finally back on the road!!

Following you find the necessary information for the PreMeetings in Hamburg, Basel and Berlin and also the starting point and time for the begin of the race!

Hamburg

PreMeeting, 21.August, 7pm:
Location: Haus 73
Adresse: Schulterblatt 73

Start Tramprennen 2011, 22.August, 7am:
Location: Neuer Kamp 32, in front of the Viva con Agua office
Start: 8am, meeting time 7am

bei Fragen zum Startort Hamburg bitte bei Hanjo (01762439957) oder Frirk (017663073728) melden!

Berlin

PreMeeting, 21.August, 7pm:
Location: Rummelsburger Bucht am S-Bahnhof Ostkreuz
Adresse: Koordinaten (52.500255, 13.470161)

Start Tramprennen 2011, 22.August, 7am:
Location: Oberbaumbrücke (U- und S-Bahnhof Warschauer Straße oder Schlesisches Tor)
Start: 8am, Treffpunkt 7am

bei Fragen zum Startort Berlin bitte bei Marco (01631745489) melden!

Basel

PreMeeting, 21.August, 6pm:
Location: Hinterhof Bar
Adresse: Münchensteinerstrasse 81

Start Tramprennen 2011, 22.August, 7am:
Location: Dornacherstraße 192 vor dem Kulturverein CREOPOLIS
Start: 8am, Treffpunkt 7am

bei Fragen zum Startort Basel bitte bei Malte (01631947911) melden!

weitere Infos

Die Hitchpakete werden wir am Start an alle Teams austeilen!
Weiterhin wirds eine Trampermappe mit folgenden Infos drin geben: Treffpunkte der einzelnen Etappen, Handynummern aller Teams + Nummer für den SMS-Ticker, Sicherheitshinweise beim Trampen, Regelwerk + Punkteverteilung, Routenaccount für Fotos, Blogs und Rennen-Updates auf tramprennen.org

Steil gehen!
die Tramprennnenenenennenen-Truppe!

Newsletter #4: 2nd Basle route has been cancelled!

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Hello Friends, fresh from us to you: the new newsletter!

1. The route “Maddox” from Basel is cancelled!

We had to debate this for a while but made the most sensible choice in the matter of routes and participants. We will start with 4 instead of 5 routes and cancelled one of the two routes starting from Basel. Currently the field is pretty close to 4×12 teams and we do not expect the fifth route to have filled up in the next two weeks. We would have loved for all 5 routes to work, but we did not want to start with a half-full fifth route.

Hence, registration state looks like this now:

Tigers Gaarden: 12 teams (full)
Blues Laboe: 12 teams (full)
Ederbier Destroyerz: 9 teams
Fugbaum Kneipenterroristen: 11 teams

In the following week you’ll also receive updates with the exact starting and meeting points in Hamburg, Berlin and Basel.

We have received several request as to whether it might be possible to add a 13th team to a specific route. While we understand the wish very much, it cannot be done. For several reasons, one of which are group dynamics, we limited routes to 12 teams last year with positive results. Of course it can always happen, that a team spontaneously cancels or wants to swith routes. Please follow our facebook and forum posts. Or post in the forum yourself, if you want to switch.
A big sorry from our side of things, but please understand our motivations.

2. HitchPackage from now on only without SIM-card.

Our contingent of SIM-cards has been used up. Nonetheless all teams further have the opportunity to grab the “veggie hitchpackage”. It includes a Shirt, stickers and Edding markers! Questions about it should be directed to Ansgar (gro.nennerpmartnull@ragsna)! :)

3. Newspapers, radio and other media

Marcel and Sarah are tirelessly contacting magazines and newspapers, but can always use your help. So if you’d like an article in your local paper, write to the staff – many are happy about some interesting stuff, especially during summer! To contact a newspaper, you can use the (so far German only) press-area (tramprennen.org/presse). Or write to Marcel: gro.nennerpmartnull@lecram

The team Herschel Krustofski pioneered this action, check their article in the “Badischen Zeitung”: Article in Badische Zeitung

4. The DonationCounter

Goes steadily upwards! Together we so far manages to wash over 5000 bucks into the buckdet!! Respect!! Who knows, maybe we’ll manage to beat last year’s 413 cent – if everybody finds a few half-cent/km sponsors (12,50 Euro), we’ll come closer to our common goal!
Let’s do it! :)

5. Water is life!

Why we collect donations on the road will be nicely demonstrated by the documentaries on phoenix tonight at 22:15. Under the common title “The global water crisis”, phoenix will air several documentaries that tell the story of the global drinking water deficit and the problem of water privatization. A recommended watch: preview on phoenix

We can’t wait to go nuts with you – 2 weeks left!!!
Cheeeers and Whoop Whoop!!

Your Tramprennen-Dudes and Dudesses!
Ansgar, Hauke, Marcel, Sarah, Franzi, Malte, Pille und Wuddich

News #3: Hitchpackage, Shirt sizes, routes

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Hey Hitchers!

Here’s newsletter #3, please read especiall the first part! :)

1. Deadline Hitchpackage + your your shirt size until August 5th

Please transfer the money for the hitchpackage until August 5th! Especially the teams who ordered the packages after registration through Ansgar. Soon we’ll have to print the shirts, therefore we need your shirt sizes. In your profile menu is a menu where you can choose the shirtsize, please do so. As a short note: the shirts have a casual design, if your shirt size is inbetween S and M you might choose the bigger one…
Concerning the SIM-cards: our sponsor blau.de provides us with 40 SIM cards. Because so many teams requested a hitchpackage, this contingent will habe reached its limit soon! On the one hand its pretty sad, because we can’t provide every team with a SIM card. On the other side we’re more than happy, because we can cover all running costs through your help :)

2. The DonationCounter is exploding!

Yesterday we altogether cracked the 4000€! Totally insane, so many donations already three weeks before the race starts!

Big impact is thorugh the eBay auction of team “Funky Toilet” by team “Ehrenamt hat Feierabend” and “Schwabbelarsch”. Hannes managed to collect 550 Euro within a couple of days and is now his own TeamOwner! Check his profile:
Team Funky Toilet ! Awesomness! :D

Another great example is Team HansDampf from Hannover who can now proudly call a drunken Linux-Penguin their new TeamOwner! Check it: Team HansDampf

folks, let’s skyrocket the Counter together! :)
if you need some hints how to get sponsors, check our fundraising toolkit: Fundraising Toolkit

3. Registrations!

The routes are getting more and more crowded with teams. 1x Berlin and 1x Hamburg are full, 1x Basel and 1x Hamburg again half full with 6 teams.
Only route Maddox is still lonesome on the road with Team “Schwabbelarsch”. We consider to merge both routes from Basel in case no more teams will show up. So please, push the race. Tell your friends, share the link and the project on facebook! :)

Cheeers,
Tramprennen Crew! :)
Pille, Malte, Ansgar, Hauke, Sarah, Frirk, Marcel, Wuddinger