News and announcements by the Tramprennen-crew

Winner of Sticker-Contest / Notifying Start

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The Sticker-Contest has shown again that we have some really creative minds among us. Thanks a lot for your great designs! The Sticker you can see above has managed it – it will be this year´s Hitchhiking-Race-Sticker and would like to be distributed as often as possible during the race.

MOREOVER, TODAY IS THE NOTIFIYING START! AND YOU CAN FINALLY REGISTER FOR THE HITCHHIKING RACE 2016! YIBIJAYAAY, WHOOP WHOOP, HERE WE GO!!

To not plunge you completely into the unknown, but still maintain the voltage, we´ll give you some tiny informations about the routes in the next few days/weeks.

You are already know the different starting places. But here is a short reminder:  There will be 8 different routes. The starting places are Halle, Leutkirch, Freising and Innsbruck. There will be two routes from each starting place. You already know from which place you want to start? Then it´s time for registration!

If you don´t have got a hitchmate yet, you are heartly invited to our first “FIND-A-HITCHMATE-PARTY” in Berlin on June 10th. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1130881703599776/

We are already really excited for the summer and we’re thrilled to experience an incredible Hitchhiking-Race 2016 with all of you!

Newsletter #2 – Routes are fixed!

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More than a month ago first information about this year´s Tramprennen found their way to the waiting hitchhikers. Just look outside your window and you will see a lot of things happened in the meantime! Spring has already done a pretty good job and brought nature back to live again. But not only plants and animals sneak out of their hole. The Tramprennen Crew is not sleeping but constantly working on the (already!!!) 9th version of our beloved Race. Last weekend some of us met in Berlin to work on the routes for this summer. And we are happy to present some more hot news to the hitchhiking world out there!

Final destination

You know that Tramprennen 2016 is going to beautiful Bulgaria and the internet users among you might already have checked the whole country to dream of some nice places to go. We found a super nice one: The small village Tsigov Chark at the banks of the beautiful Lake Batak, situated in the Rila mountains. Sounds like the world´s ass? Yes, it is! But trust us, it´s a fucking gorgeous ass!

Atlas Tsigov

Routes

The first Tramprennen in 2008 started with only one route and through the years they become more and more. For the first time last year we had 6 routes but even that was almost little for all the hitchhikers wanting to join the race. That´s why we will do a next step this year and we are proud to announce that we now have eight routes in the pipeline! To keep the whole thing even more interesting we will only announce the detailed routes at the evening before the race right at the starting points. Buuut… anyway it will be worth it to check the homepage from time to time because some more informations will maybe drop out earlier!

Starting Points

One important information about the routes is ready to be spread right now: the four different starting locations. This year Franzi will invite you to Innsbruck, Jakob to Leutkirch im Allgäu, Gero will start something in Freising and Luki is looking forward to kick off the shit in Halle (Saale). Like last year there will always be two routes starting from one point and meet each other again half way before everybody will meet in Tsigov Chark after two weeks. At the starting points each team will be (fairly! :-)) drawn to one of the two routes starting from there.

Dates

Last but not least some dates you should keep in mind. Most important of course: Tramprennen 2016 will take place from the 19th of August until the 3rd of September! But it´s maybe also interesting for that registration will start the 1st of June and (even more important) will close again the 31st of July. As soon as the first teams will be online there will also be the possibility to donate.

While writing this we´re getting more and more inpatient to rock the roads to the East this summer and we are pretty sure it´s the same for you while reading! Whoop Whoop

Easter Competition 2016 Last Infos

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Eastern is knocking on door. Perfect time for Eastern-hitchhiking, don´t you think? In 2016 there is a cozy Petrol-Station-Bingo-Game. Means: On Thursday you’ll simply download a Bingo-Sheet from our website. This sheet is extra generated for you (if anyone wants to generate a new sheet which fits better, can order a new one). Starting on Friday at 8am. Pass as many Petrol Stations as possible and mark it on your Bingo-Sheet – of course only by hitchhiking.

On Saturday we will meet and evaluate together who has the most “BINGO!”s. Totally chilled by a peaceful cone ball on the bowling alley! Allowed are: horizontal as well as vertical and although diagonal Bingos. It’s not allowed to cross the different Bingos.

In addition this time it is also possible to build Bingos with two, three and four fields. Every Bingo brings different POINTS: two = 1 Point, three = 2 Points and four =3 Points.

Infos about the meeting on Saturday:

8pm on “Grünen Deich 2, 21354 Bleckede-Wendewisch” (Bleckede is really big, you want to go to WENDEWISCH!!!).  We’ll sleep in heated rooms, there are showers, a bowling alley etc..

About eating:  it’s firstly self-catering! (Please, take plates and cutlery with you. Pots and jars are there.) That’s why we recommend: come on at 5pm (meeting-time) to the EDEKA-Shop in Hohnstorf/Elbe (on map).

We’ll go shopping together and then we’ll have another short hitchhiking-race to the final destination.

About Drinks: We are looking to get them centrally concerned. For a better planning, please write a short message to Ole , that you want to come! E-Mail: gro.nennerpmartnull@elo

If you have any questions or be stuck, you can also call Ole on Phone:  +49 178 6028609.

Generate Sheet

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TAKE-OFF 2016 – Tramprennen comes out of hibernation!

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Tramprennen 2016 starts to become reality. Last weekend a bunch of impatient hitchhiking-addicts gathered in Leipzig to launch a new episode of Hippiekacke for this summer. Of course there is still a long way to go but at the same time we can already present some first news!

Final Destination

This is probably the information everybody was waiting for: Tramprennen 2016 will go to the beautiful country of BULGARIA! The exact location will be announced soon, when the routes will be planned – first glimpses show numbers of different and beautiful opportunities to go and look forward to! We know that traveling southeast is something that can cause discussions due to the current political situations in this part of Europe. But at the same time we belief that another Tramprennen to these regions can also be a sign for free movement and against borders!

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Routes and starting Points

As you know from the previous years there will be different routes leading to our final destination somewhere in Bulgaria. After the good experiences with last year´s mode we decided not to change this again. Again there will be several small starting points with two routes each. The routes will be announced at the starting spot the evening before the race starts and the teams will be drawn to one of them by coincidence. The different starting locations are not sure yet and will be planned and published soon.

Fundraising

Last year we collected a lot of donations for the important work of Viva con Agua and PRO ASYL. We still think both of them are organizations which are worth to support. Again we will split the money we raise between those two!

As a reminder for everybody: Tramprennen will be from August 19th to September 3rd this year. We can´t wait make it happen!

Planning-Meeting 2016

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Howdyho Hitchhikers!
Winter is slowly losing power and we are about to gain it: Tramprennen arrived in 2016, still in the wonderful memories of the weeks of last year’s race that we want to adopt to a new Tramprennen 2016.

 
Really important in this process are your experiences of the last years, so a big THANKS for the large participation in our survey! We were overjoyed of all the positive feedback but we are also aware of your critical points and tips for improvement and will try to incorporate them in the plans of 2016.

 
Speaking of planning and this year’s race: the period of time is for sure (19. August – 3. September, WHOOP WHOOP), but besides this there is plenty of space for creativity, development, crazy ideas and whatever comes in your mind. We are really happy about every person who wants to join the organization-team and become an active part of our baby Tramprennen!

 
To get together with each other and start the designing of 2016 we meet from 11th to 13th of March in the wonderful town Leipzig. Dominik invites in his house project, were we can sleep upstairs and downstairs work and be creative in the rooms of one of the local initiatives. If you want to join us with this and be part of the crew just send a mail with “TR2016-I am in” to gro.nennerpmartnull@ofni. After that we will send you more information about the weekend. If you cannot join but still want to be part of it just write also a mail and we will try to involve you via skype or whatever works. There will be a possibility!

 
P.S. To all the people that are waiting for the 2015-shirts: We finally managed to get an appointment in the screen printing studio! On Monday the shirts will be printed and directly posted afterwards. To compensate the long waiting period there will be also a small present in your package. :-)

 

So long – enjoy the last days of winter and let’s rumble 2016!

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