Sorry for the delay! Award Nominations for Sixes Season 37 and Highlander Season 4 are now live. Please reach out to your division administrator for any issues with voting. Below are links to each nomination thread. Please read through the instructions carefully. Award Nominations close Friday the 18th of August 2023, so be sure to get yours submitted on time!
If you haven't submitted Award Nominations before, there are a few things to keep in mind:
- Only one of the captains on your roster needs to submit your team's nominations. We expect most teams usually discuss who they want to nominate for what award. Please note, you can only nominate your teammates for an award, voting will come after all nominations are submitted.
- Failure to submit nominations is pretty severe - failing to submit nominations will result in your team not receiving any in-game badges/medals. Whilst we do not require everyone to vote on awards, we require that all teams submit nominations, to give everyone on your roster a fair shot at winning one of the end-of-season awards! If you have any issues with this ruling, please feel free to reach out and exclusions can be discussed.
Award Nomination threads
This thread is for nominating your team's players for the best-in-class awards for Highlander Season 4. This thread will be used by us to collect the rosters of each team for voting, which will happen at a later date.
Captains are asked to respond to this thread with the completed template below by Friday the 18th of August 2023! Please save replies for nominations only, and not discussion. Only one reply per team.
Failure to submit nominations will result in you and your team being unable to receive any awards or be eligible for in-game medals. While this may seem harsh, we do this so every player has a chance to be voted for. If you wish to be excluded for a specific reason, please reach out to your division administrator.
Strictly follow the format below, as we will be using an automated script to process this data.
Team Name:
Division (Premier/Intermediate/Open):
Best Scout:
Best Soldier:
Best Pyro:
Best Demoman:
Best Heavy:
Best Engineer:
Best Medic:
Best Sniper:
Best Spy:
Most Improved Player:
This thread is for nominating your team's players for the best-in-class awards for Sixes Season 37. This thread will be used by us to collect the rosters of each team for voting, which go live once all nominations have been submitted.
Captains are asked to respond to this thread with the completed template below by Friday the 18th of August 2023! Please save replies for nominations only, and not discussion. Only one reply per team.
Failure to submit nominations will result in you and your team being unable to receive any awards or be eligible for in-game medals. While this may seem harsh, we do this so every player has a chance to be voted for. If you wish to be excluded for a specific reason, please reach out to your division administrator.
Strictly follow the format below, as we will be using an automated script to process this data.
Team Name:
Division (Premier/High/Intermediate/Main/Open):
Best Combo Scout:
Best Flank Scout:
Best Pocket Soldier:
Best Roaming Soldier:
Best Medic:
Best Demoman:
Best Utility:
Most Improved Player:
IT'S PLAYOFFS TIME!
Well, at least for Premier, Main and Open it is. That's right, as these divisions have only five rounds in the regular season, their playoffs start earlier than High and Intermediate. Playoff matches have been generated, please feel free to reach out to your division administrator with any or all issues, or make use of our Discord support channels.
Your top four teams from each division are below. Keep an eye on our #casts channel in the ozfortress Discord for cast coverage of the playoffs!
Premier
Main
Open
Voting Nominations
Voting Nominations will release at the same time for all divisions, in two weeks' time. These will work the same as previous seasons, however the Award Voting may be run differently this time. We are currently looking at implementing it via a Google Form, which aims to make it easier for teams to submit their votes, and more efficient for us to process without error.
Infraction Threshold reached
This player has accrued a total of 70 ozfortress infraction points. 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 be serving 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 prohibition.
Infraction Threshold reached
This player has accrued a total of 70 ozfortress infraction points. 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 be serving 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 prohibition.
Should any teams in any ozfortress competitions be found housing the listed players, the team will be permanently removed from our competitions and all members involved will face severe penalties.
We've heard of some confusion from players regarding the LAN Break and how that affects Match Scheduling, so we wanted to clarify some of those questions in this post. There is also some speculation around a potential upcoming game update, so we wanted to let you all know how teams may need to approach their matches post-update if there are any issues.
LAN Break
Since before the season started, we've had a note in both Key Dates pages for Sixes and Highlander that we would be having a week break to allow LAN players to not have to worry about playing their match for that week - these dates have not changed, but we want to clarify a bit of confusion surrounding them.
We used the word "break" literally, as we initially planned for teams to not even be allowed to play their match during the break, and even scheduled the rounds accordingly. However, we will now be allowing teams to play their post-LAN rounds (Round 5 for Sixes and Round 4 for Highlander) early via an extension, which both teams will need to agree to and seek administrator approval for.
Match Scheduling
Round 3 of Highlander has already ended, and Round 4 of Sixes will end this Thursday, so both should be unaffected by LAN. If you were planning on asking for an extension for Round 4 of Sixes this week however, please note we will not be allowing any that clash with LAN unless no one on the core roster is attending LAN, but considering the overlap this is fairly unlikely to happen. Round 4 matches for Sixes will be allowed to seek an extension into the LAN break, but again the match cannot be extended into days overlapping LAN unless both teams have no one on their core roster attending LAN.
To be clear, we do not expect nor require teams to play during the break, it is after all a break. However, we wanted to make it clear that teams who want to schedule their post-LAN matches to be played earlier can if they wish. This does not mean however that rounds after Round 5 of Sixes and Round 4 of Highlander can be scheduled earlier than the dates found in each seasonal league's Key Dates page.
Please note, Rounds 2-7 for all divisions of Sixes were linked to the wrong Key Dates page under the Match Details heading, this has been fixed. The Key Dates button at the top of the Match Notice was always linked to the correct page.
Game Update Speculation
As you have probably seen from your favourite TF2 youtubers, there may be an update coming very soon. Please note this is pure speculation, but it is believed that there may be more in this update than what was originally expected, part of that being potential weapon changes. In the event of any weapon changes, we will meet and discuss the changes with admins and respected players, and if need be test any changes made and whether or not those weapons should remain in season.
We previously added a rule to our Global Ruleset (1.14. Game Client Updates) dictating what players may need to do if their matches are interrupted by update issues.
We Need You!
We're often looking for, and happy to bring aboard new staff members. In that spirit, we added a "Join us" page to our docs which may help you understand who we are looking for. All open roles are there, and please let us know if you have any questions. We'll endeavour to get back to as many applicants as we can.
Support
As always, you can reach out to us via our Discord's Support category, however, we may be looking to trial more effective support systems in the coming months, and when we do we hope to hear from you! But for now, if you have questions regarding anything in this post, please reach out via #sixes-support, #highlander-support or #ticket-support.
FINAL PLACEMENTS
It's Highlander time gamers, Highlander Season 4 to be exact! You can find the Player Restrictions now updated and linked as a button at the top of the Highlander Season 4 league page.
Seedings are listed in order, with all divisions making of our previously trialled repeating Round Robin, used in Intermediate in Highlander Season 3. Division administrators have been updated and can be found on the Administrators page linked via a button at the top of the league page. Matches will be generated once we feel team's have had enough time to dispute their seedings.
If you have any issues, questions or concerns, please visit our Discord's support category.
PREMIER
IFMD
rascals
Musos Deluxe
peepBURGER
INTERMEDIATE
GARDEN OF EDEN APPLE PICKERS' UNION
Anna and the Gripmunks
godsquad 𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗞
Ducks in the Park
MAIN
lipSnoT
Significant Otter
TOWEL ANIMALS
dilf hunters
OPEN
Morb Fortress 2 - Morbheads
Boykissers
with steven
Milo Fortress 2 - Miloheads
Weapon Whitelist Update
One change of note that was missed in our Seasonal League Changes & Ruleset Updates post was the update made to our whitelist. After considering the poll feedback on weapons, we've opted to ban the Darwins Dangershield for Highlander Season 4. We will be looking to reintroduce weapon-specific poll questions in the post-season polls to properly collect data on the weapon bans and unbans players are looking for.
FINAL PLACEMENTS
We hope you're ready for Sixes Season 37! You can find the Player Restrictions now updated and linked as a button at the top of the Sixes Season 37 league page.
Seedings are listed in order, with all divisions except Intermediate making use of our standard Round Robin, with Intermediate using Swiss. Division administrators have been updated and can be found on the Administrators page linked via a button at the top of the league page. Expect matches to be generated very soon.
If you have any issues, questions or concerns, please visit our Discord's support category.
PREMIER
Round Robin
xcx
Taoyuan Leopards
Ascension
en passant
laissez-faire
HIGH
Round Robin
mcsalad
fever kids
BUSHIDO TERROR SQUAD
east meets west
soundcloud.com/2345y
Seal Team Six
Terrible Tactics
:3 coalition
INTERMEDIATE
Swiss
guckOW
beggars cant be choosers
Salt Free Gaming.
TOWEL ANIMALS
Bulgarian Odyssey
DLLM
Insisting on a Phisting
Avo's Cados
Should Be Studying
MAIN
Round Robin
SEAL TEAM SUX
Spare No Opps
Drake & Drive
Boykissers
emgee and the egirls
Ownage + 5
OPEN
Round Robin
fking hl mains
G7
Left 4 bread
Morb Fortress 2 - Morbheads
Famous Last Words
Check out our previous Final Placements post
While the seedings posted in it are no longer accurate, the post contains a small update on our plans for Sixes moving forward, along with a teaser for our multi-week tournament in the next off-season!
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