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Happy New Year, sorry for the wait and we appreciate your patience as always. Our staff have taken a well deserved break and we're getting back into the action. But before we push into the new era we must celebrate the old.
Congralutaions to the Spring '25 Highlander Champion's of Premier, Intermediate and Open being ATOMIC, Adam's and the big Mac's and 9 Reasons Not To Play TF2 respectively. Season trivia can be found at the bottom of each divisions awards, thankyou to both treemonkey and more.tf for gathering the data.

Below are the Final Rankings and Awards for the Spring '25 season of Highlander. Awards have been shortened to only the display winner of each category, and the highest 3 number of votes to eliminate clutter. At the bottom of each Division's Awards is a link to an additional thread with additional information on classes and players (Trivia)! The Division based Trivia will only pertain to the regular season's results, playoffs and beyond has been excluded to ensure everyone has as similar amount of matches played as possible.

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Congratulations Premier winners ATOMIC!

Placements

- ATOMIC
- crylander
- pena's trinkets
- emo is the mind killer

Grand Final Map Scores

Match · VOD

• Upward: 2 - 0
• Ashville: 3 - 0

Bronze Final Map Scores

Match

• Product: 3 - 2
• Warmtic: 1 - 3
• Ashville: 3 - 2

Awards

Best Scout: HUNGRY.4.EGGS (9), Miffy (8), krollic (8)
Best Soldier: Raelen (11), mashiro (10), Lev (6)
Best Pyro: brodie escobar (12), bird (10), link (6)
Best Demoman: Glitchy (12), matttt (8), sunfish (7)
Best Heavy: JP (11), trash (9), nurf (9)
Best Engineer: Sexy Turtle (11), shy (10), doctrine (6)
Best Medic: tal (13), peep (7), song (6)
Best Sniper: Flow (11), Titan (8), maz (8)
Best Spy: henwe (10), Andrew (10), john the asain (9)

Most Improved Player: ziah (9), matttt (8), henwe (4)
Most Valuable Player: Glitchy (6), Flow (4), HUNGRY.4.EGGS (3)
Most Improved Team: emo is the mind killer (12), The Beatles (7), crylander (7)
Friendliest Team: ATOMIC (12), cryander (10), emo is the mind killer (7)
Best Dressed Team: ATOMIC (12), pena's trinkets (10), crylander (8)

Best Caster: snazzy (12), tal (8), dave (6)

Premier Season Trivia

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Congratulations Intermediate winners Adam's and the big Mac's!

Placements

- Adam's and the big Mac's
- Unhinged
- The Soup Store
- Outer Heaven

Grand Final Map Scores

Match

• Ashville: 0 - 3
• Vigil: 0 - 2

Bronze Final Map Scores

Match

• Product: 3 - 0
• Ashville: 3 - 0

Note: Due to multiple players from Outer Heaven being involved in the recent ozfortress ban the roster has been stripped of it's original first place finish. Players on the roster who were not banned will be listed as finishing 4th place in the season. The remaining team's have been placed one position higher than what they finished originally. All votes for Outer Heaven have been removed from the final tally's below.

Awards

Best Scout: AJ (7), Funk (6)
Best Soldier: Bree (7), Zando (6)
Best Pyro: Florence (8), Bluehat (5), mean bug (5)
Best Demoman: juliangonzales2009 (9), J Dawg (5)
Best Heavy: Hoste (8), dayap (6), lillybit_0 (5)
Best Engineer: Verydarklord (7), thethingy (5)
Best Medic: SpicyHipJesus (7), Juna (5)
Best Sniper: ABiD (7), Zepi (5)
Best Spy: klebs (9), Pulse (5)

Most Improved Player: Hoste (8), Bluehat (5)
Most Valuable Player: juliangonzales2009 (4), dayap (3)
Most Improved Team: Adam's and the big Mac's (8), The Soup Store (6), Unhinged (6)
Friendliest Team: The Soup Store (7), Adam's and the big Mac's (7), unhinged (6)
Best Dressed Team: Adam's and the big Mac's (9), The Soup Store (6), Unhinged (5)

Best Caster: Freaky (10), snazzy (5), tal (4)

Intermediate Season Trivia

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Congratulations Open winners 9 Reasons Not To Play TF2!

Placements

- 9 Reasons Not To Play TF2
- IDK (idontknow)
- Rat Gaming Reborn
- Lake Fairy Crew

Grand Final Map Scores

Match

• Upward: 1 - 0
• Product: 3 - 0

Bronze Final Map Scores

Match

• Product: 3 - 1
• Ashville: 2 - 0

Awards

Best Scout: y0shmy (9), LuigisBigMac (7), rePause (4)
Best Soldier: MACKY (8), newspice (7), Peepo (6)
Best Pyro: Mercicrux (8), AmethystDragon10 (6), siraphop (6)
Best Demoman: Wooper (8), Skytread (6), e-Jacc (5)
Best Heavy: Alsander and Ciaran (7), KateTheKatPlays (6), frosted (6)
Best Engineer: Sayu (7), gwemby (6), AuroraEchoes (6)
Best Medic: June (she/her) (8), silent* (5), peteydog (4)
Best Sniper: Dight a blight (8), Sly Rocko (7), rill (5)
Best Spy: Luciferin (7), JCED (6), Hobby_Sr (6)

Most Improved Player: KateTheKatPlays (8), gwemby (7), e-Jacc (5)
Most Valuable Player: June (she/her) (5), Mercicrux (5), cRs. (3)
Most Improved Team: Lake Fairy Crew (8), Rat Gaming Reborn (7), 9 Reasons Not To Play TF2 (5)
Friendliest Team: Lake Fairy Crew (7), Rat Gaming Reborn (7), 9 Reasons Not To Play TF2 (5)
Best Dressed Team: Lake Fairy Crew (9), Rat Gaming Reborn (6), 9 Reasons Not To Play TF2 (5)

Best Caster: noemie (9), Freaky (5), Sylvie (4)

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Please be aware that none of the dates listed in the Provisional 2026 Schedule are set in stone - but it's safe to say the seasons will adhere pretty closely with this schedule. We'll be adding to the schedule throughout the year, so keep an eye out for news posts detailing those updates!

🗓️ ozfortress Provisional 2026 Schedule

A small edit: The dates for the upcoming Summer Cup will come soon, we're just locking in more details before we release anything.

Seasonal Award Voting is Live for Spring '25

Nominations have been made and now is the time to vote! To end 2025, competitors of this years Spring seasons of Highlander and Sixes need to cast their votes for Seasonal Awards! Voting needs to be completed by the 31st of December at 11:59pm AEDT with all votes being sent to myself via discord dm's or via @ing me in the captain's discord. (details linked below). Votes are only to be submitted by Team Captain's of the aforementioned team's who competed in the Spring '25 seasons.

For those who are new or unfamiliar to voting any and all information regarding the process can be found in the links below but to summaries it for all who may be curious;

Team captains vote for players who competed in their teams division for certain categories in which players are nominated in. From left to right players voted will receive 3, 2 and 1 points with the player with the most points receiving the award. All categories require 3 votes with teams and team captains being prohibited from voting for players who were rostered on their team. Votes only need to be done for the division you and your team competed in.

Failing to complete this process will result in your team mates becoming ineligible for in-game medals.

Votes are to be submitted to myself via my discord linked in the threads below.

Sixes Voting

Premier Voting • High Voting • Intermediate Voting • Main Voting • Open Voting

Highlander Voting

Premier Voting • Intermediate Voting • Open Voting

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