The Regional Tracking Center Committee has convened to begin the process of determining locations for this year’s regional tracking centers. Each of the world’s five sectors needs a location for a regional tracking center. Months in advance of Christmas an Elf Supervisor and his or her team are dispatched to the regional locations to begin... Read more
Author: Elf Crash Murphy
Elf of the Year Announcement
In a final wrap to the 2024 Christmas season I am pleased to announce the Elf of the Year. This year’s honoree is known to just about everyone. In fact, when I asked for recommendations from the Elf Community I was overwhelmed with the number of people suggesting this one particular elf. This elf is... Read more
Please Send in a Nomination
It has been an excellent year in tracking Santa and one that taught us many things. We are grateful for all we experienced. Before we move on to the year-in-review and in planning exciting things for 2025, we want to do a few things in wrapping up 2024. First of all, a performance review process... Read more
What the Red Zone Means
Trackers in All Sectors, In just about 12 hours it will be dawning of Christmas Eve day in Sector 1. Whenever a sector enters into Christmas Eve day we call it entering the Red Zone. What is the Red Zone? You're going to see those words in headlines, hear them on the radio, and read... Read more
Schedule Change Announcement
Due to circumstances related to Operation Airlift we have decided to move up the check-in process worldwide. Check-ins will be announced via your Elf Supervisor beginning on Saturday, December 21st instead of our original plan of the 22nd. Tracker Check-in is a process that tells your Elf Supervisor that you are or are not available... Read more
What All Elves Should Be Doing Right Now
Hi Elves! Crash here - if you are new and you don't know me, my name is Elf Crash Murphy and I'm the International Director of Santa Trackers. We makes me, more or less, the Head Elf, YOUR Head Elf, your boss' boss. In my humble way, I'm here to tell ya what to do.... Read more
A Message for All Elves from Elf Crash
We held a chat today at SantaUpdate.com with me and Elf Roger Star that was supposed to talk about tracking Santa. I feel we really failed. My intent was to engage some of our new trackers on how to track Santa. We have a lot of new elves. We had some great experienced elves join... Read more
Pipeline to Santa
Deep at high command at North Pole Flight Command is where a special desk is located. Elves there call it the "hot seat". The elf sitting in that chair has one job and one job only: to talk to Santa when he flies. North Pole Flight Command has a very difficult job. It has to... Read more
Santa Wants to Chat
I don't normally post news but I've got a busy week that will keep me offline most of this week and I want to at least get this word out there: Santa wants to chat. With us. In Elf Chat right here on SantaTrackers.net. Elf Winslow is working the details on this one and we... Read more
Take our 2023 Survey
My Fellow Trackers of Santa, Thank you and Merry Christmas! Santa’s record-breaking ride in 2023 came as a result of a lot of work. Much of that work came from you, the unseen and unheard-from heroes of Operation Merry Christmas. North Pole Flight Command took in over 30 million reports from trackers in the past... Read more
All Elves on Alert Status
Per plan and as scheduled, North Pole Flight Command has put all elves in all departments worldwide on alert status. Alert status means that the next phase of Operation Merry Christmas is in process and that all elves need to be actively coming to North Pole websites with regularity to stay informed and to be... Read more
Tracker Check-in Scheduled
Attentional All Tracker Elves in All Sectors, We are pleased and excited to announce that Tracker Elf check-ins will begin on the following schedule: (All dates and hours are local time) Sector 1: December 22nd at 11:00pm Fiji Time Sector 2: December 22nd at 7:00pm Turkmenistan Time Sector 3: December 22nd at 8:00pm Iceland Time... Read more