A Happy Day!

Two weeks left and the race is on!
These are the news you need for the moment. Please read them carefully, otherwise you might miss some useful information.

1. Registration Stop and cancellation of route Peach

In good old Tramprennen tradition we cancelled one route due to missing teams. Sorry Peach and thanks for being with us till now. Since we’re preparing the Hitchpackages this weekend and every route has 10 to 12 teams now, we stopped team registrations.

That means: 60 teams and 130 Hippyhobos will be on their way to Poland in 2 weeks!! We’re more than happy to hitch with so many great people for the 6th time!! Thumbs up and let the good times roll!

2. About switching a route – yes, possible till friday.

Recently, we had a lot of movement between the routes. Some teams cancelled their participation, others switched from Luigi to Yoshi, from Yoshi to Mario and so on. Right now, there is one free slot left on Yoshi (Breda) and Donkey Kong (Flensburg). Have a look into your Team Dashboard, if you find something else than a 0 in brackets in the “Choose Route” section behind the route names, you can move your team from one to another route. Till friday!

3. DonationCounter fills up

With the participation of everyone we already raised more than 3000 Euro. 307,5 thumbs for the WASH-Project of Viva con Agua in India & Nepal!! K.I.C.K.S ASS! =)
Let’s try to break last years record and crack the 15.000 Euro! Talk to your friends, neighbours and random people alongside the road and ask them for their thumb! Let’s push things forward and big things will happen! Everyone can contribute to this project with only 1 thumb (10 Euro).

4. Pimp ur Profile!

Most important: Pimp ur profile! Upload a nice picture of you and your hitchmate(s), have a little description about your awesomeness and it will be light years easier to find some TeamSponsors! To pimp ur profile click here: https://tramprennen.org/participate/team-dashboard/

5. PreOpenings in the starting cities

We’re going to have little Pre-Meetings in the starting cities, so everyone will get to know each other a day before the race starts. Please be in your city (Breda, Flensburg, Mainz, Eisenach, Hamburg) on Thursday, 15th of August. The exact meeting point will be announced next week, no worries (usually a small pub).

6. Be a Local Hero: Newspapers, Radios, TV, Blogs

We want to promote the art and beauty of hitchhiking as a common way of travelling! Get in touch with your local newspapers or radio stations and tell them what you’re planning to do. Every article is great and counts. Last year we received a letter from a 96 year old guy who wrote about his hitchhiking stories from the 20s & 30s – just because he read about Tramprennen somewhere in a newspaper! :)
Media Infos can be downloaded here: https://tramprennen.org/about-us/presse/ (english) and here https://tramprennen.org/de/uber-uns/presse/ (german)

That’s it for now!
We’re looking forward to kick everyone’s ass soon! :)

Cheeerios and Happy Hitchhiking!
TR13-Crew

Get your engines roaring! Here are the two last routes of Tramprennen 2013: Donkey Kong and Yoshi. Get ready to select driver!

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Route Donkey Kong (Flensburg)

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Route on Google Maps

Start: Flensburg, D
Fact: Flensburg is famous for the company Beate Uhse, Handball and the “Kraftfahrtbundesamt” in Germany

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Photo: VollwertBIT

1st Stage: Göttingen, D
Fact: Students, student parties, university….

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Photo: Daniel Schwen

2nd Stage: Usti nad Labem, CZ
Fact: in late 90s a 150m long wall was build to keep safe respectable citizens from Gypsies living across the street. It lasted only 6 weeks before being destroyed!

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Photo: Ondrej.konicek

3rd Stage: Česká Skalice, CZ
Fact: there is barrier lake close to the small and old town

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Photo: Matěj Baťha

4th Stage: Poznan, PL
Fact: famous football club, the supporters are doing the craziest pyro-shows (video)

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Photo: Radomil

5th Stage: Ciechanów, PL
Fact: The grad numbered approximately 3,000 armed men..

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Photo: Kaczorgw

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Route Yoshi (Breda)

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Route on Google Maps

Start: Breda, NL
Fact: “day of red-haired” celebrated annualy

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Photo: Bart Rowuenhorst

1st Stage: Bleiwäsche, D
Fact: Situated in the middle of Germany, it won’t get any more proper german

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Photo: Witold Grzesiek

2nd Stage: Greifswald, D
Fact: The bigger (by far) one of the two nuclear power plants of the GDR was located very close to Greifswald, in Lubmin (“Kombinat Kernkraftwerke Greifswald”). It was closed in 1990 even before reunification. Since then it’s being decommissioned.

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Photo: Caspar David Friedrich (* 1774 in Greifswald)

3rd Stage: Szczecin, PL
Fact: There should be the last bridge over the Oder before it’s mouth

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Photo: włodi

4th Stage: Kołobrzeg, PL
Fact: a basketball team from Kołobrzeg (Kotwica Kołobrzeg) plays in the highest league of Poland

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Photo: I, D.kwiatek

5th Stage: Hel, PL
Fact: located at the end of a 34 km long and quite narrow peninsula with the same name, the only road leading there can turn in summer into a 34 km long traffic jam :)

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Photo: Bartłomiej Bulicz

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