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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.
SIGNUP NOW · SEASON PAGE
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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That's a wrap on 2024 Highlander. Congratulations to the winner of the Premier division S.M. and the winners of the Main division sejinming fever. 2025 Highlander is almost here, so don't bask in these team's glory for too long, a new champion(s) may be around the corner.
Below are the Final Rankings and Awards for the Spring '24 season of Highlander.
Congratulations Premier winners S.M.!
Placements
- S.M.
- crylander
- Significant Otter
- rascals
Grand Final Map Scores
- Ashville: 3 - 2
- Swiftwater: 2 - 0
Bronze Final Map Scores
- Swiftwater: 1 - 2
- Vigil: 2 - 1
- Upward: 2 - 1
Awards
Best Scout: krollic (15), HUNGRY.4.EGGS (11), Miffy (6)
Best Soldier: Lizrd-Wizrd (15), norbit the plug (10), mashiro (9)
Best Pyro: bird (16), Styx + peep (8), CH (4)
Best Demoman: maz (13), <user> (12), turris (8)
Best Heavy: typo. (15), HASHFAN (9), Flow (8)
Best Engineer: Sexy Turtle (15), Mikcow (9), redja (5)
Best Medic: remorse (15), jd (12), tal (6)
Best Sniper: calski (14), strawbunny (7), bill + myyyst (5)
Best Spy: Andyroo (15), henwe (12), chimes (4)
Most Improved Player: Mikcow (14), norbit the plug (10), jv (8)
Most Valuable Player: Lizrd-Wizrd (7), Andyroo (5), maz + calski + HUNGRY.4.EGGS (4)
Most Improved Team: crylander (10), rascals (7), Where no ability meets no effort + S.M. + Youth for Christ (6)
Friendliest Team: S.M. + Significant Otter (9), rascals (7), Youth for Christ (6)
Best Dressed Team: S.M. (13), Youth for Christ + Significant Otter + crylander (7), rascals (6)
Best Caster: Rainy (14), jennierubyjane (11), Freaky (10)
Congratulations Main winners sejinming fever!
Placements
- sejinming fever
- Bisexual Lighting
- Rich and Grainous
- With Blackjack and Furries!
Grand Final Map Scores
- Ashville: 3 - 0
- Upward: 2 - 1
Bronze Final Map Scores
- Ashville: 3 - 0
- Vigil: 2 - 0
Awards
Best Scout: noemie (16), eden (10), Zando (7)
Best Soldier: indy and her jones (13), Gears + APVC (9), zdav (6)
Best Pyro: ziah + FriendlyPyromancer (11), Cryo (10), Cantrip (8)
Best Demoman: Glitchy (12), Pigel + klebs (10), Mirage (8)
Best Heavy: SpicyHipJesus (17), manglemonster (12), GUNWR0NG (7)
Best Engineer: angus (11), Sev + Verydarklord (10), arbabf (9)
Best Medic: olivergeeoz (16), Miss Squidge (10), Sly Rocko (9)
Best Sniper: FIN + Evelynn (13), J (7), WORLD's BLaNKIEsT BLaNK (6)
Best Spy: Bree (13), MonsterGunner0v0 (10), Karly (9)
Most Improved Player: SwaySway (12), Cantrip (10), Zando (9)
Most Valuable Player: SpicyHipJesus (6), klebs + Pigel + olivergeeoz + Mirage + angus + eunsoo + WORLD's BLaNKIEsT BLaNK + Bree (3)
Most Improved Team: With Blackjack and Furries! (13), rat gaming (8), funny people (7)
Friendliest Team: With Blackjack and Furries! (14), Bisexual Lighting (10), funny people (8)
Best Dressed Team: Bisexual Lighting (19), With Blackjack and Furries! (7), funny people (6)
Best Caster: Freaky (20), nightjar (15), Rainy (13)
Post Spring '24 Surveys
To ensure our Autumn '25 Highlander competition runs as smoothly and fluidly as possible we're wanting to hear from all players who competed in the Spring '24 Season. Below you will find two Post-season Surveys for players who competed in the respective Premier and Main divisions. The surveys are identical and separated for our convenience. Any and all feedback about the running of our regular seasons is always greatly appreciated.
Surveys
• Premier Survey
• Main Survey
Premier Transfer History
Transfer Window #1
Transfer Window #2
Transfer Window #3
Transfer Window #4
Transfer Window #5
Emergency Transfers
High Transfer History
Transfer Window #1
Transfer Window #2
Transfer Window #3
Transfer Window #4
Transfer Window #5
Emergency Transfers
Intermediate Transfer History
Transfer Window #1
Transfer Window #2
Transfer Window #3
Transfer Window #4
Transfer Window #5
Emergency Transfers
Main Transfer History
Transfer Window #1
Transfer Window #2
Transfer Window #3
Transfer Window #4
Transfer Window #5
Emergency Transfers
Open Transfer History
Transfer Window #1
Transfer Window #2
Transfer Window #3
Transfer Window #4
Transfer Window #5
Emergency Transfers
Division Admins
All communication with Division Admins must occur within the Team Captain Discord. Team Captains will be invited after the conclusion of Signups. If you are not in this Discord, please contact an admin immediately.
Head Sixes Admin: Hawk
Premier Admin: Emgee
High Admin: Hungry & Celph
Intermediate Admin: Mashiro
Open Admin: InStinct
To see our complete staff list including Discord handles, visit our Staff page here.
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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.
SIGNUP NOW · SEASON PAGE
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.
The users below are banned from playing a certain amount of rounds in both Sixes and Highlander during Autumn '25. Users can receive round bans when accruing Player Behaviour Infractions or League Penalties. See these pages for more information each.
Autumn '25 Round Bans
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Premier Transfer History
Transfer Window #1
Transfer Window #2
Transfer Window #3
Transfer Window #4
Transfer Window #5
Emergency Transfers
Main Transfer History
Transfer Window #1
Transfer Window #2
Transfer Window #3
Transfer Window #4
Transfer Window #5
Emergency Transfers
Mercenaries Used
Below you can find all the Mercenaries Used for all division throughout Spring '24 Highlander.
Premier Merc History
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Playoffs Round 1
Playoffs Round 2
Playoffs Round 3
Main Merc History
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Playoffs Round 1
Playoffs Round 2
Playoffs Round 3
Key Dates & Transfer Windows
Key Dates
Signups & Seedings Dates
Thursday 16th of January 2025: Signups Open
Wednesday 5th of February 2025: Signups Close, Rosters Locked for Seedings
Sunday 9th of February 2025: Seedings Released
Wednesday 12th of February 2025: Season starts
Regular Season Dates
Wednesday 12th February - Sunday 16th February 2025: Round 1
Wednesday 19th February - Sunday 23rd February 2025: Round 2
Wednesday 26th February - Sunday 2nd March 2025: Round 3
Wednesday 5th March - Sunday 9rd March 2025: Round 4
Wednesday 12th March - Sunday 16th March 2025: Round 5
Roster Lock applied on Wednesday 19th March 2025
Wednesday 19th March - Sunday 23rd March 2025: Round 6
Wednesday 26th March - Sunday 30th March 2025: Round 7
Playoffs Dates for Premier & Main
Wednesday 2nd April - Sunday 6th April 2025: Playoffs Round 1
Wednesday 9th April - Sunday 13th April 2025: Playoffs Round 2 / Semi-Finals
Wednesday 16th April - Sunday 20th April 2025: Playoffs Round 3 / Grand & Bronze Finals
Transfer Windows
Transfers windows will be determined prior to the start of the season.
For applicants to be eligible to play in a particular round, the transfer application must be submitted by 11:59 PM AEST/AEDT time the Tuesday of the round before the transfer window.
Teams are permitted to a total of 6 player transfers into their roster this season. Only 2 Player Transfers are processed in each window.
Player Restrictions
The number of restricted players allowed on one roster this season will be decided upon after seedings.
Player Restrictions
Division Admins
All communication with Division Admins must occur within the Team Captain Discord. Team Captains will be invited after the conclusion of Signups. If you are not in this Discord, please reach out immediately.
HIGHLANDER HEAD ADMINISTRATOR
- Sperkle
DIVISION ADMINISTRATORS
- Kai
- woozy
- redja
To see our complete list including Discord handles, see our Staff page here.
Map Schedule
TBD
Map Pool
Highlander Autumn '25 Map Pool
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
Changes to the Highlander Autumn '25 Map Pool
- TBD
Rest in peace, I remember first speaking to you around this time of last year. Fly high.
Map Schedule
Map Pool
Highlander Spring '24 Map Pool
Upward
Vigil
Swiftwater
Summercoast
Steel
Product
Ashville
Proot
Changes to the Highlander Autumn '24 Map Pool
Please see the Poll Results linked on the league page as well as the Highlander Spring '24 Changes News post for specific percentages and details about the Map Pool changes.
- Removed Warmtic
- Added Summercoast and Proot
Please note: pl_upward_f12, pl_vigil_rc10, pl_summercoast_rc8e, cp_steel_f12, koth_product_final, koth_ashville_final and koth_proot_b6c-alt2 are custom maps. If you don't already have these installed, please click the links above to download them, and then move them to your ..\Team Fortress 2\tf\download\maps directory.
The following commands can be used to change maps to the correct version. Type or copy these commands into your console to change to that map, as long as you have the correct rcon password.
rcon changelevel pl_upward_f12
rcon changelevel koth_product_final
rcon changelevel pl_swiftwater_final1
rcon changelevel pl_summercoast_rc8e
rcon changelevel cp_steel_f12
rcon changelevel pl_vigil_rc10
rcon changelevel koth_ashville_final1
rcon changelevel koth_proot_b6c-alt2
We get the title of this post is a bit wordy, but we promise the plugin and each person's interaction with it couldn't be simpler.
Are you automatically recording your demos with ds_enable 3? If you also have ds_autodelete set to 0, you have nothing to worry about - you might see some messages in chat saying you're all good, but you have nothing to worry about. If however, you have ds_enable set on any other setting, or ds_autodelete set to 1 (which automatically deletes all demos after they are recorded), then the plugin will warn you in chat after you join or upon both team's readying up.
This plugin has two modes. Currently, the plugin is set to its warning-only mode, which notifies everyone on the server of a player's settings when they join the server, or on ready up. In the future, we may opt to turn on the plugin's kicking mode when a person has invalid settings, which in addition to the two already performed checks in the warning mode, can also prevent a person from joining the server if their settings are invalid.
We are planning to leave the plugin on warning-only mode, for now, to get some numbers on who doesn't have their settings set correctly, who opts to manually record, etc. Once the plugin has had some time to simmer in everyone's minds, we'll look at making any needed changes/changing settings. A big thank you to everyone involved in making this happen, and an even bigger thank you to Shigbeard for bringing the plugin to life!
rest in peace
MAP POOL
The following commands can be used to change maps to the correct version. Type or copy these commands into your console to change to that map, as long as you have the correct RCON password.
rcon changelevel cp_prolands_rc2p
rcon changelevel cp_logjam_rc12f
rcon changelevel cp_granary_rc16f
rcon changelevel cp_sultry_b8a
rcon changelevel koth_clearcut_b17
SCHEDULE
All group stage matches on the first day will be played as best-of-ones. There will be four matches that will decide the seeding for the playoffs on day two. The top four teams from the group stages will go through to the playoffs on day two. All play-offs matches will be single elimination and the finals best-of-threes.
Day 1 - Saturday the 25th of January (Group Stage, BO1)
- 7:00pm - Round 1 cp_logjam_rc12f
- 7:45pm - Round 2 cp_granary_pro_rc16f
- 8:30pm - Round 3 cp_prolands_rc2p
- 9:15pm - Round 4 cp_sultry_b8a
Day 2 - Sunday the 26th of January (Playoffs: Page Playoffs matches are BO1, Semi-Finals & Grand Finals are BO3)
- 6:30pm - Page Playoffs - koth_clearcut_b17
- 7:15pm - Semi-Finals - BO3 pick/bans
- 9:15pm - Grand Finals - BO3 pick/bans
CONFIG
Due to the time constraints between rounds, we will be utilsing a modified config which was on display at the recent Summer Brawl LAN. The win conditions of these are set by the highest score after 25 minutes, or first to 5. If both teams are tied at 25 minutes, an additional 5 minutes will be added. If no team can finish the game in those next 5 minutes, the team controlling middle will win the game.
rcon exec command to be confirmed
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