ozfortress administrators are responsible for the smooth running of the ozfortress seasonal league. Remain in constant contact with them regarding team issues and potential team instability. They are also available to clarify anything about the rules or procedures of ozfortress competitions.

The best way to get in contact with an administrators is in the #admin-support channel on Discord. Click the following link to join our Discord.

The following people are available to solve issues in your division, however for simple issues we strongly recommend that you refer to the ruleset. From here, your own division's administrators should be your first point of contact, however if your administrators are not available, others may be able to help.

Head Administrator - catfish

Division 1 Administrator - skaz
Division 2 Administrator - Connor
Division 3 Administrators - Thermite and samson
Division 4 Administrators - catfish and Hawk

View the whitelist at whitelist.tf

This global whitelist is part of an initiative to unify the international leagues. We will be using the September 2020 edition of the global whitelist.

New items added to the game during the season will be banned until the next season. Modification of weapons will be evaluated by the administrative team. Taunts which are silent and/or toggle-able have been banned.

It is the responsibility of the player to not use these weapons in matches. The whitelist not loading or loading incorrectly is not an excuse for using banned items.

KEY DATES

Sunday 22nd November 2020: Signups Open
Wednesday 2nd December 2020: Signups Close, Rosters Locked
Saturday 5th December 2020: Teams Announced

Saturday 5th December – Thursday 10th December 2020: Round 1
Saturday 12th December – Thursday 17th December 2020: Round 2
Saturday 19th December – Wednesday 23rd December 2020: Round 3

Saturday 2nd January – Monday 4th January 2021: Semi Finals
Tuesday 5th January – Thursday 7th January 2021: Grand Finals and Third Place deciders

PLAYOFFS

All divisions will be using single elimination semi finals with the top four teams of each division going through to semi finals after the group stage.

FORMAT

Much like regular ozfortress seasons, the ozfortress Summer Cup 2021 will feature weekly matches for teams over the course of three weeks. However, teams will be required to play two matches per week instead of the one that is seen in standard ozfortress seasons. Each of these official matches will still consist of two maps. In order to accommodate the extra match, the ozfortress Summer Cup 2021 will see Saturday as a playable match day, giving six total days for teams to play on. All teams are required to be available for four out of the six days.

All matches in the ozfortress Summer Cup 2021 will utilise a pick/ban system. For group stage matches, the pick ban format will be as follows:

1. The higher seeded or home team will either choose to ban first or defer.
2. The first team (determined by the result of step one) will ban a map.
3. The second team will ban a map.
4. The first team will ban a map.
5. The second team will ban a map.
6. The first team will select the first map from the remaining pool.
7. The second team will select the second map from the remaining pool.

For playoffs matches (all of which will be best of three) the pick ban will be much the same as it is during regular ozfortress seasons:

1. The higher seeded or home team will either choose to ban first or defer.
2. The first team (determined by the result of step one) will ban a map.
3. The second team will ban a map.
4. The first team will ban a map.
5. The second team will ban a map.
6. The first team will select the first map from the remaining pool.
7. The second team will select the second map from the remaining pool.
8. The first team will select the tiebreaker map from the remaining maps.

MAP POOL

cp_gullywash_f1
cp_process_f7
cp_snakewater_final1
cp_metalworks
cp_sunshine
koth_product_rcx
cp_reckoner_rc6

Please note: cp_gullywash_f1, cp_process_f7, koth_product_rcx and cp_reckoner_rc6 are custom maps. If you don't already have these installed, please click the links above to download them, and then move them to your ..\Team Fortress 2\tf\download\maps directory.

The following commands can be used to change maps to the correct version. Type these commands in your console to change to it as long as you have the correct rcon password.

rcon changelevel cp_gullywash_f1
rcon changelevel cp_process_f6
rcon changelevel cp_snakewater_final1
rcon changelevel cp_metalworks
rcon changelevel cp_sunshine
rcon changelevel koth_product_rcx
rcon changelevel cp_reckoner_rc6

Congratulations Open winners [HK香港人]

Logs

Process - 5 - 3
Metalworks - 2 - 1

Match Thread

Congratulations to [HK香港人] on winning the OZF 29 Open Grand Final against from gosford.

Coming in with the bracket advantage, the first pick of the evening was HK's. They opted for Process, a map they managed to beat from gosford on in the Upper Page Playoff. from gosford showed that they were not to be underestimated, taking the first round of the map in a relatively convincing fashion. HK managed to compose themselves however, and the next round was a closely fought victory in their favour. With the scores tied up at 1 - 1, it appeared that the momentum was now with HK, and they took the next three round in an incredible display of dominance. With things looking rough for from gosford, they had to dig deep for a chance at the map win and dig deep they did! from gosford took back two fast rounds to narrow the scoreline down to 4 - 3. With only a few minutes left, from gosford needed another fast round to take us to a Golden Cap. HK, however, took matters into their own hands and decided they were going to end the map here. A dominant round for HK solidified the map win for them, taking it 5 - 3 and putting them 1 - 0 up in the series.

The second map of the series was Metalworks. Hoping for a repeat of the Upper Page Playoff in which they won the map, from gosford dropped the first round, putting them at an immediate disadvantage. They responded by thrashing HK on the next mid however, and took the second round with a convincing Uber advantage push. Both teams began to play very passively now that the scores were tied, with neither team wanting to make any mistakes. from gosford had several opportunities for last pushes, however failed to convert any of the rounds in part due to the impressive coordination of HK. After a drawn out round, HK managed to take the third round leaving the score at 2 - 1. Initially things were looking manageable for the side of from gosford. 12 minutes to convert one round is a generous allotment, however as the map went on HK managed to withstand everything that **from gosford could muster, things were looking dire. with less that two minutes left on the clock, from gosford managed to wipe the side of HK while retaining their Medic, ensuring they would have Uber for one final last push. from gosford managed to focus down the opposing Heavy during the Uber, however excellent Uber kiting on the side of HK saw no other frags go their way. The ensuing team fight was scrappy, however it was HK that ultimately prevailed and hold their own last in the face of an Uber-disadvantage push. They took the map 2 - 1 and the series 2 - 0 to become your ozfortress season 29 Open champions!

Thank you to all the players, support staff and patrons that helped make this season possible. We'll see you all again very soon!

Placements

1st - [HK香港人]
2nd - from gosford
3rd - Team Weezer

Awards

Best Demoman: nast
Best Medic: gronk
Best Pocket: flrl
Best Roamer: crypto
Best Pocket Scout: Pub
Best Flank Scout: channy
Best Utility: Barry.

Most Improved Player: Pub and GalacticCore
Most Valuable Player: luigi

Friendliest Team: med tagged 1
Most Improved Team: from gosford
Best Dressed Team: Free Dub and M'lady
Best Caster: snazzy

The voting threads for the end of season awards have now been posted! The votes must be sent through to samson (samson#5103) or skaz (skaz#4670) in a Discord PM using the correct formatting on Discord by Tuesday the 17th of November at midnight by every team captain. Failing to do this will prevent your votes from counting.

Only captains to vote. Please submit with 3 votes for EVERY category. You only have to do the division your team participated in.

Premier Votes
High Votes
Intermediate Votes
Main Votes
Open Votes

How to vote:
Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. The first name will receive three votes, the second will receive two votes and the third will receive one vote. Voting for your own team mates is not allowed.

Important formatting - you must copy paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!

Your team name:
Your team division: Premier

Best Demoman: first place vote, second place vote, third place vote
Best Medic:
Best Pocket:
Best Roamer:
Best Combo Scout:
Best Flank Scout:
Best Utility:
Most Improved Player:
Most Valuable Player:
Most Improved Team:
Friendliest Team:
Best Dressed Team:
Best Caster:

Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. Voting for your own team mates is not allowed.

Your completed template should look like this (with the correct players on their classes, the same players have been used for each award in this example for simplicity) without the point allocations after each player name:

Your team name: Your Team Here
Your team division: Open

Best Demoman: /dev/zero (3 points), wiggin (2 points), obla (1 point)
Best Medic: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Pocket: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Roamer: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Combo Scout: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Flank Scout: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Utility: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Most Improved Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Most Valuable Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Most Improved Team: Respawn League, Qixalite, ozfortress
Friendliest Team: Respawn League, Qixalite, ozfortress
Best Dressed Team: Respawn League, Qixalite, ozfortress
Best Caster: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla

Important formatting - you must copy paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!
Fill out this and then send it to samson (samson#5103) or skaz (skaz#4670) in a PM on Discord by Tuesday the 17th of November.

How voting is calculated
We will use instant runoff voting to calculate the results.

The following players and teams are nominated for awards:

Best Demoman: Deft, daz, emgee, enrith, meff, phantasm, redcoatzygote, sao

Best Medic: Doge, Halfwrong, Keller, Zaka, jane doe, lau, mirimu, squonk

Best Pocket: GLXY, Trumpet, Yachty, benjay, conor, kl, riot, yewl

Best Roamer: Dip, Raelen, Rohan, alt, feyn, fez, lexx, paulsen

Best Combo Scout: AiShou, Akiki Village Chief Warlord of Uganda, Rei, Vanquish, cooki, dauq, precious, teejay

Best Flank Scout: Elmo, Sky, Takeyon, adolo, calski, down, heebs, silvo

Best Utility: Akiki, Village Chief Warlord of Uganda, Dip, benjay, calski, dauq, down, silvo, takeyon

Most Improved Player: Shupah, Sky, alt, daz, fez, lexx, paulsen, precious

Most Valuable Player: AiShou, Akiki Village Chief Warlord of Uganda, Akiki, Village Chief Warlord of Uganda, Deft, Dip, Doge, Elmo, GLXY, Halfwrong, Keller, Raelen, Rei, Rohan, Shupah, Sky, Takeyon, Trumpet, Vanquish, Yachty, Zaka, adolo, alt, benjay, calski, conor, cooki, dauq, daz, down, emgee, enrith, feyn, fez, heebs, jane doe, kl, lau, lexx, meff, mirimu, paulsen, phantasm, precious, redcoatzygote, riot, sao, silvo, squonk, takeyon, teejay, yewl

Most Improved Team: Airpods, CEST LA VIE, I MAY BE STUPID, Project S, Taylor Swift Fan Club, happy feet, mge zombies, soiree

Friendliest Team: Airpods, CEST LA VIE, I MAY BE STUPID, Project S, Taylor Swift Fan Club, happy feet, mge zombies, soiree

Best Dressed Team: Airpods, CEST LA VIE, I MAY BE STUPID, Project S, Taylor Swift Fan Club, happy feet, mge zombies, soiree

Best Caster: ALT, CeeJaey, Connie Kins, D-Fault, DuMmTm, Elmo, Exquizit, Fozzlm, Ghost, Graham, Jäger al-Maslul, Luggnuts, Michael, Mikcow, RRLUCKY, Raelen, Rias, Shakey, a team of ants in their prime, ayr, dauq, dempsey, dubious, harvey, huffy, jolson, just jazz, liz, lizrd wizrd, mal, max, meff, melons, memories, nicthegiant, ory, poisy, quid, raised, ryan, snazzy, starb, virgil, wiggin, xander