ozfortress - team fortress 2 in australia

ozFortress is proud to announce Overwatch Winter League, a new competition coming to you this summer.

Set over 7 weeks, OWL will test you, test your team, test your abilities. Featuring over 2 teams across a division, teams of 12 will compete against themselves (because video games are best when you’re playing with your friends!) for their divisional trophy in a Genji (all other characters are banned) only fun filled frag fest.

We at OZfORTRES truly believe that the powerful capabilities of playstation live will give our players the best ping and the most fair and balanced platform to take each other down on the field of battle, in this intense aim and deathmatch heavy game. To that effect OWL will be a PS4 only league, as befits this amazing and inspirational game.

So get your team ready, for as they said in the lord of the rings: Winter is coming.

ozfortress is proud to announce that OZF 15 Premier will have a community funded prizepool starting at $550! This starting money was graciously provided by Canada's very own Runaway, obla, hobbes and myself.

The admin team would like to distribute the entire prizepool to the winner (if they elect to go overseas and represent the community at i58) or allocate the money to first, second and third place. It is the choice of the competition winning team captain to take all the prize pool to compete at i58 or decline and redistribute the pool.

We've set the fundraiser up on ImRaising which takes a 1.9% cut of donations. The ImRaising cut comes from the organizer of the fundraiser (it's linked to my Paypal) so please enter the amount (in USD) you wish to donate and the final amount will be calculated. We chose ImRaising specifically based on this low cut in an attempt to make the most out of your donations.

We will be offering a limited edition contributor forum badge for donators contributing 100 dollars (AUD) or more for this fundraiser. If you do want this badge, please make sure to link your ozfortress profile link in the comments when you donate.

I will be updating the list below with the donor's name and/or username and donation amount. If you wish to have your name or username listed, please let me know in the Message field on the ImRaising page with your donation amount. If you do wish to remain anonymous, also please do let us know.

The fundraiser will close after round 5 of OZF 15, Friday 22nd April 2016.

11corners
4RAR Gaming Clan
ABC
Absent
B.A.D.
Bakardi
Bearforce1
Beer and Skittles
Bunnings
Can't Stump the Trump
chess club
Cooking with Coolio
Culture Kings
dale + 5 whales
Danger Dogs
Dream meme team
Duksquad
ego
FamiliarKnights
fenando 5-0 and the temple of roro
FIFO
FO THE ORPHANS
GeeGee
Go! BWAH!
Home Alone
Irrational Tendancies
it's only smellz
Jasmine Tea
juicy ones
Kung Fu Camels
Long Live the Meta
mates
Master Menace
Mobious eSports
Natural Royalty
Ninja Robot Dong Sharks
No Kids Here! 6s
pool party boys
Quantum Laboratories
Salt Free Gaming.
Savage 6!
The Doggos
The Resurrected Six
UNI-cycle
WHEELCHAIR WARRIORS
Xyphuu Waifuu

The following team(s) have been withdrawn from the competition. Contact an admin ASAP if you wish to reactivate this team before placements are released.

No Safeword
Happy Campers

It's here! ozfortress season 15 will be the flagship competitive TF2 event for the Oceanic region. Similar to the winter league of times past, teams of all skill levels are encouraged to play. However, with the new tournament comes some functional changes as well.

The division system is being reworked to Premier, Intermediate and Open. The lower two divisions will consist of a Swiss group stage leading into a single elimination finals bracket. Premier will have a round robin group stage into double elimination finals. For those wanting to know more about Swiss, check out how Challonge handles the format.

All divisions will have Best of 3 finals prior to a Best of 5 Grand Final. Division size limits for Premier and Intermediate are pending signups. Open will have an unrestricted number of teams.

If you're new and not sure how to get started, don't fret! Check out the recruitment section where you can find or form a team. Teams are normally comprised of 1 Medic, 1 Demoman, 2 Soldiers and 2 Scouts. It's good to have backups for on team to ensure you can field 6 players for your weekly matches.

For brand new teams in Open, we will attempt to find you an Advisor who will be available to assist you through your first few weeks in the season. The Advisor will show your team how to arrange a match time, join the server and report scores after the game. If you're a player experienced with ozfortress competitions, let us know of your interest to help out as an Advisor in your team's tournament application.

As always, top level Premier coverage will be brought to you by TFLIVE. If you're looking for past matches to get a feel for the game, they can be found on the TFLIVE YouTube. However, the best way to learn the game is usually to just start playing. Whether you're a veteran or new to the scene, get on a team and come play!

We've opened signups for OZF 15 a little early to give teams extra time to solidify. You can sign up right now until the 17th March, with the season starting on Sunday 20th March 2016. We're now using Google Forms to manage applications, so hopefully this should make the process easier for everyone.

Teamfortress.tv has produced a highlights video from the final night of the ozfortress summer cup, featuring Jasmine, Gossip Girl and :smug:. Thanks to all the players for submitting demos, and congrats to Jasmine for taking home the trophy.


Also, we've been working with valve and a few awesome designers to bring out medals for the ozfortress summer cup. We're glad to announce that every participant in the summer cup will receive one of these fine medals.


These sketches by uberchain are not quite final, but we're working with our modeler sedimentarysocks over the next little while to bring these to life in game!

It was a long evening but a victor has emerged. Above the heap of ecstatic viewers, raspy casters and exhausted players Jasmine Tea stand tall, having proven their dominance by besting Gossip Girl 3-0 in the Grand Final. While Badlands was not close, Granary and Product were nail-biters.


Immediately prior to the Best of 5, Gossip Girl bested :smug: in 2 maps to earn their spot in the Grand Finals before falling short of the title.


Thanks to everyone that was involved in the tournament, whether that be as a player, spectator or support staff. See you very soon!

Hello everyone! We have a few new changes to the faces around the ozfortress admin team and we'd like to let everyone know.

obla has now joined the ozfortress admin team. He will be serving as a league administrator for our upcoming season, and his skill at server administration will be put to good use.

/dev/zero is our new developer. He will be focusing on creating tools and web properties to help run ozfortress. He is part of the admin team, but will be focusing on writing code instead of day to day league administration tasks for the time being.

In case anyone missed it Cole joined the ozfortress team a few months ago but we never officially announced it. Cole will be assisting in league administration duties for the upcoming season along side obla and the rest of the team.

It's also with a bit of sadness that we announce that Rynocerus will be stepping down as an active league admin. He's been awesome at running division 4 for quite a few OWLs now and a brilliant part of the team. We wish him all the best as he focuses on his studies.

Thanks to all admins past present and future for supporting our tournaments and making this community great.