News

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PRELIMINARY SEEDINGS

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Welcome to Highlander Spring '24!

Below you can find our initial Seedings for the season to come. If you have any issues with our listings or with any of the accompanying player restrictions, please reach out to any of our Highlander Administrators or via our help and feedback channel in our discord.

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PREMIER

S.M.
crylander
Significant Otter
rascals
Youth for Christ
Guzman y Gibus
Where no ability meets no effort

MAIN

sejinming fever
Bisexual Lighting
Rich and Grainous
Bürgr
rat gaming
With Blackjack and Furries!
MouseWarriors
funny people

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Premier & Main

We're running it back with a two division season once more! With 15 teams signing up this season and with a large number of newer players jumping into the competition we did look into crafting a competition with smaller division sizes but unfortunately we came across obstacles preventing us from doing so. Firstly the number of newer or "Open" level teams in comparison to the number of other teams and signups as a whole; Bürgr, rat gaming, With Blackjack and Furries!, MouseWarriors and funny people we felt all fit the criteria of "Open level teams". However, a division of 5 teams isn't feasible for fair competition with bye weeks and skipped maps each round. This would mean, that for an open division to work, 4 of the aforementioned teams would compete within an Open division whilst one team would be bumped up into a division were they would likely be outclassed by their competition. With this in mind we opted to include the 5 teams listed above along side sejinming fever, Bisexual Lighting and Rich and Grainous to create the Main division you see before you.

As for Premier, we believe that with the rostered players, there remains plenty of good competition throughout the season. An Intermediate Division was considered between the admin and advisor teams to combine some of the lower seeded Premier and upper seeded Main teams; However we felt the skill gap between both sets of teams was too vast to justify.

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Playoffs

It has been decided that this season both divisions will be making use of the Expanded Page Playoffs. 6 teams from both divisions will progress into playoffs for this season of Highlander with the larger division sizes of 7 and 8 for Premier and Main respectfully supporting this decision. Both divisions will also feature a Bronze Final mentioned in our previous News Post.

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Season Progression

Season will begin this coming Wednesday the 9th of October with team captains being invited to the Team Captain's Discord with in the coming days once we have completed setting up the season.

The regular season will be 7 weeks long for both divisions with only the Premier division featuring bye rounds (1 for each team). Following regular season will be 3 rounds of playoffs wrapping up our final Highlander Season no later than the 15th of December. You can find all the Key Dates including Transfer Windows here.

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PRELIMINARY PLACEMENTS - v2

Class restrictions pending updates -

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Spring time is upon us!

Even with the extended signups, I am happy to able to get this out so quickly - thank you to all the advisors that assisted with these in the early hours of the morning.
Please do not hesitate to contact an admin if you have any issues, questions, or concerns. This can be done through our Discord's support category.

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PREMIER

soiree
cannon fodder
Watermelons of the Round Table
Electro
BROADY BOYS
barbeque pork neck
Post Uber
Students of the Game (prem)

HIGH

Horse Tranquilizer
Penny Trading Bapak Kau
cafe lobotomy
Geezer Gamers
altombo's kittens
Fortified
shark attack
qqq
bronsexuals
Birnd Out

INTERMEDIATE

bobo's burgers, hold the redja
Hive's mind
DLLM
Students of the Game (Inter)
Talking Tom and Friends
facing my gamer charges (possession with intent to distribute)
Straight Outta Plumpton
Team Yope!

OPEN

Untitled Team #04
/happypilldegens/
THE WILD FRUITS
Mildly Depressed Millennials
loveseat massacre
Morb Fortress 2 - Morbheads
Robot House
lana del rey fan club
6 Reasons Not To Play TF2
Succulent Chinese Meal

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Bans

The following ban/s are all Infraction Threshold bans, split between New Bans, and Ban Resets.

New Bans

The following player/s accrued enough points to reach an Infraction Threshold Ban.

zerk STEAM_0:1:535822032
This player has accrued a total of 90 ozfortress infraction points after just serving out a ban and being on probation. As such, the player has been banned from ozfortress.com, the community's competitions, and all other ozfortress properties for 1 year, after which they will serve a 12-month probation, in which any reoffence will double the severity of the penalty. Their ban duration will be extended if they are found ban-evading during their ban.

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Should any individuals or groups within ozfortress be found housing the listed player/s in our competitions, or aiding in ban evasion, those responsible will face severe penalties and hefty league bans.