Thank you to all teams and players who played in ISOLATION DEVASTATION 2020! OZF 29 is right around the corner, we hope to see you there. Placements are listed below. Congratulations to all winners!

PREMIER

1st - soirée
2nd - happy feet
3rd - BUTTERFLY EFFECT

INTERMEDIATE

1st - drainers anonymous
2nd - Burnt Toast Gaming
3rd - chainlink millionaires

OPEN

1st - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
2nd - Is this Highlander?
3rd - Chemistry Class

PREMIER

happy feet
soirée
BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Winx BLACK.
Negative Gearing
ad hominem attack
Project S
I MAY BE STUPID

INTERMEDIATE

Burnt Toast Gaming
drainers anonymous
Boomer Rockets!
chainlink millionaires
Gnome Zone
Homies with Extra Chromies
taken from iFridge
Bad Company

lunar restricted from Scout
Moop restricted from Demoman
v4na restricted from Soldier, Demoman, Scout & Sniper

OPEN

back 2 the bones daycare
bid cavers
Is this Highlander?
Salt Free Gaming.
Chemistry Class
MTIN Tournament edition
DoH
bp.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
from gosford
Free Dub
Terrible Tactics
Flying Spies
Cool Kids gaming
badges4vadges

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The ozfortress August 2020 poll is here. As always, we run a poll in between tournaments to see what the community wants. This poll contains some key questions regarding unlocks, administration, OZF 28 and future maps, general ozfortress rules and future map pools.

It would be greatly appreciated if you take the time to express your views so we can make ozfortress better!

Fill out the poll here!

Congratulations Premier winners happy feet

Logs

Sunshine - 5 - 0
Granary - 4 - 0
Process - 6 - 1

Match Thread

Congratulations to happy feet on winning the OZF 28 Premier Grand Final against Head Cavers.

The first map of the series was Sunshine. As expected, happy feet came out firing on all cylinders on their first map pick taking the first round in a matter of minutes. Head Cavers began to look much more competitive in the second round with points and Ubers being traded between the two teams. Some clutch Demoman heroics from enrith to save his Medic looked to put Head Cavers in a solid position, but it the midst of all the chaos redcoatzygote had slipped behind and begun a backcap. Despite the players of Head Cavers rushing back to last in order to stop the backcap, redcoatzygote was able to secure the round with some impressive pipes, putting his team up 2 - 0. Head Cavers were showing some promise, managing to push happy feet back to their last on multiple occasions however they seemed to be unable to convert their last pushes into rounds. These failed pushes gave happy feet an opportunity to claw back the momentum, and that was an opportunity they did not squander. Two more rounds to put happy feet up 4 - 0, putting them in an extremely favourable position to take the map. The momentum was well and truly in the favour of happy feet, and they converted the final round to take the map 5 - 0 in a quick 23 minute fashion. redcoatzygote's impact was a huge factor in his team's convincing win. Impressive stats (21/7 K/D ratio, 335 DPM) combined with his high impact plays proved too much for Head Cavers to handle.

Head Cavers' first map pick was the unconventional Granary, and after the disappointing result on Sunshine they were looking for a good start on the second map of the evening. Both teams were initially looking evenly matched, with the first round narrowly going to happy feet. Despite this opening round loss, Head Cavers were still looking to be in much better form than on Sunshine. However, in an unfortunate case of déjà vu, the second round of Granary also fell to a backcap from the side of happy feet. This marked the beginning of a series of unfortunate events for the side of Head Cavers. Juts minutes later, Doge was dropped by the Spy play of down after a beautifully-timed backstab. Things were looking up for Head Cavers after a convincing team-wipe, however a heartbreaking play from yewl picked Doge with his team around him on 96% Uber right as Head Cavers were prepping for a last push. This string of events led to happy feet ultimately picking up their third round and extending their lead to 3 - 0. With time running out and no choice but to play aggressively, Head Cavers increased the pace of their game in order to quickly acquire rounds however the fundamentals of happy feet proved too strong and they were able to extend their lead once again before the map time ran out. The duo of redcoatzygote and down provided both high impact plays and impressive fragging, setting their team ahead 2 - 0 in the series.

The pressure was on for Head Cavers as their OZF 28 hopes were on the line as we headed into our third and potentially last map of Process. The first round of Process played out similarly to our previous two maps, a slightly more draw our affair with happy feet ultimately taking the first round for the third map in a row. However, a promising round from Head Cavers put them on the board and tied us up at 1 - 1. This act of defiance seemed to light a spark under happy feet, and they were then ultimately able to assert their dominance and take the next four rounds in under ten minutes. With the time nearly up and not enough time left for Head Cavers to get the required rounds, the game looked well and truly over as happy feet were able to take the victory 6 - 1 and the series 3 - 0 to take of $1800 AUD and become your ozfortress season 28 Premier champions!

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

Placements

1st - happy feet
2nd - Head Cavers
3rd - Jasmine Beef

Awards

Champions: happy feet
Best Demoman: redcoatzygote
Best Medic: dogroll
Best Pocket: yewl
Best Roamer: feyn
Best Pocket Scout: AiShou
Best Flank Scout: down
Best Utility: silvo

Most Improved Player: Daz
Most Valuable Player: AiShou

Friendliest Team: Jasmine Beef and Dragon Link
Most Improved Team: Dragon Link and ad hominem attack
Best Dressed Team: 𝕮𝖔𝖔𝖒 Club. and ad hominem attack
Best Caster: BigFellaGoose

Over the past several weeks, the infraction system has seen significant changes to how it functions and these changes will affect how reports are handled in the future moving forward. This post aims to inform the ozfortress community on what changes have been made to the system, and why we have elected to make these changes.

The first notable change is that there will now be a seperate infraction team to handle infractions. Functioning similarly to the Anti-Cheat team, this team is composed of ozfortress staff members as well as ozfortress players. All identities of the members of the infraction team will remain hidden, with there being one public face of the infraction team. The current public representative of the infraction team is Hawk. For any questions and inquiries regarding infractions, Hawk should be your first point of contact. Our reasoning for making this change is that the admin team did not currently feel that they were able to keep up to date with infraction and dedicate the appropriate amount of time that they deserved. The addition of a new separate team allows for the admin team to focus more time on the league, while also giving infractions the much needed attention that they require.

The next addition to the infraction system is that the infraction team will now be implementing a six-month reporting window. This has been an unofficial policy for several months now however it is important that it now become a public policy. What this means is that any evidence that is submitted to the infraction forum that is over six-months old will not be acted upon by the infraction team. The idea behind this policy is that many players may have made mistakes in the past however these actions may not reflect who they are now.

Another minor point to address is that some users have become worried that their posts to the infraction forum have been deleted, however this is now standard procedure as processed reports are deleted with the original copies saved so there is no need to worry.

All infraction notifications will now be done through ozfortress.com. Until now administrators have been messaging individuals directly however that will now stop. Players will receive site notifications (the bell icon) informing them that they have been infracted. Players must be regularly checking ozfortress.com, failure to see notifications will not be a valid excuse for future infractions.

Another grey area to address is the use of binds involving quotes from other players. For many, they would see these binds not as themselves saying the contents of the bind but as them quoting the player who said it previously. After a discussion the infraction team elected that all binds involving slurs will not be treated any different from players using slurs in other contexts, however all previous uses of these binds will not be infracted.

The final major change is that for the majority of first offences, players will be issued a warning rather than an immediate infraction (typically only for minor offences). The philosophy behind this is that an initial warning will allow one off offenders to redeem their behaviour before acquiring more infractions.

It is important to note that while the infraction team will stick to these rules to the best of their abilities, in extreme situations they may decide that additional punishment and action is required.

We would like to thank all players for their submissions and continued feedback and support for the infraction system, we are trying to make this system better every day.

Thank you,
The ozfortress administration team

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 Thursday the 30th of July 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. 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 Pocket 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):

Your team name: Your Team Here
Your team division: Premier

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 Pocket 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, RGL, ozfortress
Friendliest Team: Respawn League, RGL, ozfortress
Best Dressed Team: Respawn League, RGL, 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 Thursday the 30th of July.

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: Daz, Gooseman, Paulsen, deft, enrith, meff, redcoatzygote, sao

Best Medic: Dave, darbs, dfault, doge, dogroll, michael, squonk, v4na

Best Pocket: Elmo, Rohan, Spade, Zaka, lexx, randy, ywl

Best Roamer: Wulonggothh, alt, feyn, kai, riot, samson, shupah, silvo

Best Pocket Scout: Sam, Takeyon, aishou, heebs, jneb, krollic, phantom, susurrus

Best Flank Scout: bosskquish, conor, dauq, down, drat, lau, namey, teejay

Best Utility: Myyyst, Sam, down, krollic, namey, silvo, starbucks, tez

Most Improved Player: Daz, Paulsen, alt, dauq, krollic, meff, tez, ywl

Most Valuable Player: Dave, Daz, Elmo, Gooseman, Myyyst, Paulsen, Rohan, Sam, Spade, Takeyon, Wulonggothh, Zaka, aishou, alt, bosskquish, conor, darbs, dauq, deft, dfault, doge, dogroll, down, drat, enrith, feyn, heebs, jneb, kai, krollic, lau, lexx, meff, michael, namey, phantom, randy, redcoatzygote, riot, samson, sao, shupah, silvo, squonk, starbucks, susurrus, teejay, tez, v4na, ywl

Most Improved Team: BUTTERFLY DEFECT, Coom Club, Head Cavers, Jasmine Beef, Negative Gearing, ad hominem attack, dragon link, happy feet

Friendliest Team: BUTTERFLY DEFECT, Coom Club, Head Cavers, Jasmine Beef, Negative Gearing, ad hominem attack, dragon link, happy feet

Best Dressed Team: BUTTERFLY DEFECT, Coom Club, Head Cavers, Jasmine Beef, Negative Gearing, ad hominem attack, dragon link, happy feet

Best Caster: Beater, BigFellaGoose, Cole, DuMmTm, Elmo, Fozzlm, Ghost, GrahamCasts, Liam, Michael, Quid, Rednaxela, RRLUCKY, Sean, ayr, huffy, just jazz, kcaj, liz, max, melons, ory, redcoatzygote, roymond, snazzy, starb, starvox, xander, yauch