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Woofer

It brings us great sadness to share that on Monday the 23rd of December 2024, ozfortress player and community member Woofer sadly passed away. Woofer has been an active participant in ozfortress competitions for over four years and will be missed by many members of the community. In the future, we will be sharing links to charitable causes if anybody would like to make a donation in his name. Our thoughts are with woofer's friends and family in this difficult time.

The ozfortress admin team
(Posted on the 7th of January 2025)

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Cat Haven

As we mentioned in the initial post above, Woofer's family has elected a charity for donations to be made to in Woofer's name. Cat Haven is based in Western Australia and is responsible for taking care of homeless cats until they can be rehomed in safe and loving environments. Woofer had a great affinity for cats and his family and friends felt this was a very fitting charity to give to in his memory. If you would like to donate to Cat Haven and find out more about their work you can find the donation link below.

🐈 Cat Haven

(Posted on the 11th of January 2025)

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The meaning of life

If you're looking for purpose, season 42 of ozfortress Sixes is now live! Get a team together and sign up now!

Signups

You can sign up for Sixes Autumn '25 from today, Friday the 17th of January 2025, up until Sunday the 2nd of February 2025. We aim to have the seedings out by Friday the 7th of February 2025, before the season starts. The season starts Sunday the 9th of February 2025.

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Minor change

This season we are trialling a reduction of the number of transfer rounds during the season. After week 5, rosters will be locked to avoid late-minute changes to rosters for playoffs.

Autumn '25 Feedback Form

For the time being we intend to move away from doing end of season surveys. They simply don't yield enough meaningful responses to justify doing them season after season. In their place we will be implementing a General Feedback Form which can be filled in at any point throughout the season. This form will then be looked at with all the submitted feedback, criticism and ideas at the end of each season and wiped going into the start of the next. Any other important data points from our previous Post-season Surveys such as map votes and whitelist changes will be moved to discord polls to incentivize responses in a simpler setting.

Advisors Wanted!

This season, we will be trialing a new way for advisors to give input. If you believe you have a fair but comprehensive
knowledge of the ozfortress player base, please send Hawk (@hawk_33) a message on Discord!

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Highlander Flood

It's raining down in ozfortress, must mean it's Highlander time again. Welcome to the start of our 2025 Highlander run beginning with our 9th season, Autumn '25.

Signups

You can sign up for Highlander Autumn '25 from today (Thursday the 16th of January) up until Wednesday the 5th of February at 11:59pm AEDT. With this in mind we'll aim to have seedings out by Sunday the 9th or Monday the 10th of February at the latest with the Season starting on Wednesday the 12th of February.

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Season Changes On The Way

While we aren't ready to share any of the changes we'll be implementing in the coming season as of right now, another post will be released in the coming days once we've established and finalized all changes that are set to occur this season. If you haven't already, make sure you check out our Post-season Surveys that we've released in the previous Highlander Spring '24 - Winners & Award Recipients post. Feedback from these surveys will help shape future seasons so get it quick before they're gone forever... On that note...

Autumn '25 Feedback Form

For the time being we intend to move away from doing end of season surveys. They simply don't yield enough meaningful responses to justify doing them season after season. In their place we will be implementing a General Feedback Form which can be filled in at any point throughout the season. This form will then be looked at with all the submitted feedback, criticism and ideas at the end of each season and wiped going into the start of the next. Any other important data points from our previous Post-season Surveys such as map votes and whitelist changes will be moved to discord polls to incentivize responses in a simpler setting.

New Admins Wanted!

For this coming season we're looking to pick up 2 more Highlander Administrators to join the team. You can apply to join via the aforementioned Post-season Surveys or via our Staff Applications section on our forum. The position of Highlander Admin revolves around the smooth running of all highlander leagues, matches and competitions within ozfortress. This includes, but isn't limited too; settling match disputes, generating match pages on the website and match communication channels in the ozfortress captain's discord, discussing the internal progression and changes of seasons and events and spectating matches as a referee. If any of this interests you, Kai, redja, woozy and myself (Sperkle) would love to have you on our team.