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It's aim is to establish competitive autostop as a collaborative activity in Germany and Western Europe. Also, it wants to raise (inter)national awareness of the sport. Activities will include a broad range of topics, from organizing training workshops and lectures on first aid while travelling traveling by autostop, night-hitchhiking, survival, navigation in forests, mountains and deserted areas and other relevant topics, as well as excursions to specific (e.g. usually less travelledtraveled) destinations.

Competitive, collaborative competitions, asking the participants e.g. of relevant skills in orientation / and navigation in the open country, form as well a major part of the club's repertoire. In 2012/13, the '''DTSG''' has been granted funding by the European Union to promote its activities and connect fellow hitchhikers throughout Europe. ===World Championship Qualifications===* The [[DTSG]] had one team participating at the 1st round of the world championship qualifications in [[Ukraine]] in November 2012. After hitchhiking 7 days non-stop through the interior of the country, the very same team successfully qualified for the 2nd qualification round.

The competitions are open community activities, inviting casual hitchhikers, fellow sports(wo)men as well as newbies to participate, learn and share about the art of autostop. On March 9, 2012, the club organized its first competition throughout the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogelsberg_Mountains Vogelsbergkreis] in Northern [[Hesse]], [[Germany]]. A second race was Subsequent races were conducted June 15-17, 2012, through the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmark Altmark region] in Northern Germany, [[Overijssel]] region of [[The Netherlands]], Rhön area in Central [[Germany]], through the Eifel mountains, Sauerland region in [[NRW]] as well as the Fränkische Schweiz in [[Bavaria]].

===World Championship Qualifications===*The club next competition will organize be held on the first qualification round weekend of 25th to 27th November, 2016, around the Black Forest in Germany. More information [[World Championshipshttps://sporttrampen.de/black-forest-race/ here]] (TransGlobal) for (Western) Europeans from 18-28 August, 2012. Participants from all European countries are welcome to participate.{{en}}

* [httphttps://sporttrampen.de Official website] of the DTSG {{de}} and {{en}}* [https://warmroads.de/en/ Warm Roads], a blog by DTSG member [[User:Korn|Korn]], with a focus on competitive autostop analytics {{de}} and {{en}}