Recently there has been discussion within the ozfortress community on the prevalence of several prominent exploits and scripts. For those unaware, the main examples of the exploits that were discussed are:

• Replacing footstep sounds (with another more distinct footstep sound)
• Replacing the Spy decloak sound (commonly done using the audio from the Shred Alert taunt)

While these are the main two that were discussed, there are others that also fit into this category. We would like to make clear to all players that these exploits are not legal in ozfortress competitions and as such all players found using them will be punished. These exploits will be considered cheating and appropriate punishments will be dealt to users found abusing them.
Moving forward, however, we will not be retroactively punishing players for using these exploits prior to the posting of this announcement. Our reasoning for this is that many of these exploits are very easily accessible and are achievable through the use of VPKs and scripts. As there are many VPKs and scripts that are legal, and the installation process is extremely simple, we felt it was important to clarify that we do consider these exploits cheating before we begin punishing players who continue to use them. Another important note is that there are many common VPKs and scripts that we do not consider cheating. These include but are not limited to: The no explosion smoke script, replacing weapon sounds with other weapon sounds (commonplace with The Original and the stock Rocket Launcher) and performance configs (the popular mastercomfig makes use of VPKs).

If any players are unsure of the legality of a specific script or VPK, their first step should be to contact an administrator. Any players found using an exploit that the admin team considers to be cheating will be punished. Ignorance is not an excuse.

Thank you,
The ozfortress administration team

PREMIER

✨ C'EST LA VIE ✨
AirPods
happy feet
I MAY BE STUPID
mge zombies
Project S
soirée
Taylor Swift Fan Club

HIGH

2004 Honda Accord V6 Luxury 177kW
Burnt Toast Gaming
Grogged
Homies with Extra Chromies
hungry i eat all day
psychology majors
Rhodes Island
Xbox 360 Voice Chat

v4na restricted from everything but Medic
lunar restricted from Scout

INTERMEDIATE

Artix Entertainment
Chemistry Class
Descent
Eshay gaming
excited4christmas
Garden Warfare
Harverd Esports
Is this Highlander?
Pogjuice Aficionados
Salt Free Gaming.

kai restricted from Scout and Soldier
ardd restricted from everything but Medic

MAIN

:cancer
!misfits
BAELINAISSSSS
Burnt Toast Gaming Junior
chiken
DSP Gaming
monke juice
Moons of mars
MTIN
open players
Play Footy MAATTEE??
Terrible Tactics

Clashe restricted from Scout

OPEN

[HK香港人］
Church Of Gibus [CoB]
crackhead
Flying Spies
Free Dub
from gosford
Kritz
M'lady
med tagged 1
Poggers patrol
Sunburnt
Team Weezer
victory royale

REMINDER: WE ARE CONDUCTING RANDOM POV DEMO CHECKS DURING OZF 29. MAKE SURE YOU ARE RECORDING POV DEMOS. IGNORANCE IS NOT AN EXCUSE.

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The ozfortress seasonal league has returned for the third and final time in 2020. Whether you're a hardened veteran of the scene or a newcomer to 6v6, there will be a place for you in ozfortress season 29 and we hope to see you there!

The map pool for OZF 29 will again comprise of nine maps and certain maps will be played once during the regular season with other maps being played twice. This season we're yet again saying goodbye to Prolands as well as recent ozfortress staple Logjam. In their place we're seeing the return of our favourite love-it or hate-it map Reckoner as well as Villa, which is hot off its recent appearance in ISOLATION DEVASTATION 2020.

There will be five skill divisions in OZF 29. The brackets we will feature are: Premier, High, Intermediate, Main and Open! Both Premier and High will have a round robin group stage while the bottom three brackets will consist of a Swiss group stage. All brackets will continue using the Page Playoffs format. Grand Finals for Premier shall be played as a no-advantage best of five, while all other division's Grand Finals will be a best of three. Premier and High will have eight teams while Intermediate, Main and Open's bracket sizes are pending signups. Depending on the number of signups we receive for OZF 29, we may adjust the number of skill divisions after signups have closed.

During OZF 29 we plan on conducting random demo checks to ensure players are recording demos. Please ensure that you are recording match demos in order to avoid punishment.

Transfers will continue to be completed on a bi-weekly basis. The system will allow admins more time to review and accept transfers.

We will also be featuring several new plugins on ozfortress servers for OZF 29. Along with the plugins we added last season to fix several bugs in the game (namely the sticky-det bug and the ramp slide bug) we'll also be adding in the plugin to fix ghost crossbow bolts as well as the plugin to remove halloween mode from ozfortress servers. Along with the plugins introduced in OZF 28, these are the only plugins we will be using for OZF 29. No others will be added.

This season we will also be experimenting with the forfeit all matches on disband setting. Previously, if a team disbanded during the season then all matches that they had already played would turn into forfeit wins for the other team. This season all match results from a disbanded team will stand, and no matches will be retroactively forfeited.

All server booking will continue to be done through ozfortress discord. Simply join the #bookings channel in the ozfortress Discord and type /book and details of your server booking will be PM'd to you. To view more commands, type /help in the #bookings channel.

On the ozfortress website, captains can create Teams using the "Start Team" button on the Teams page. Once created, captains can invite players to the team. Team invites are shown on a player's profile, which can be accessed by clicking on your name next to the bell on the top right hand corner of your screen. Teams provide a pool of players that can be signed up for a tournament. Players may be in the pool for multiple teams but only one active roster for any given tournament. Captains may sign up a roster for tournaments under the league page.

If you're new and not sure how to get started, don't fret! Check out the #recruitment section of the ozfortress Discord where you can express your interest in joining a team, or peruse potential players to form a team of your own. Teams are normally comprised of one Medic, one Demoman, two Soldiers and two Scouts. If you're new to the competitive scene, click here for an introduction to ozfortress!

Please ensure you have enough backups to last the season; teams are allowed a maximum of ten players rostered on for any single tournament.

You can sign up for ozfortress season 29 from Sunday the 30th of August up until Wednesday the 9th of September. We aim to have seeding out by the 12th of September with the season starting on the 13th, however this is subject to change. This gap between the closing of signups and the start of the season is to give the administration team more time to seed. ozfortress season 29 will begin on Sunday the 13th of September.

[Signup now!]

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CLASS RESTRICTIONS

This page will show all class restrictions for players in OZF 29. It will be updated throughout the season with each transfer window.

HIGH

• v4na restricted from every class but Medic
• lunar restricted from Scout
• krollic restricted from every class but Medic
• Yui restricted from every class but Medic
• iven restricted from Scout and Soldier

INTERMEDIATE

• kai restricted from Scout and Soldier
• ardd restricted from everything but Medic

MAIN

• No current restrictions

OPEN

• No current restrictions

TRANSFER WINDOWS

Out new transfers system will see transfer approved every two weeks rather than every week. Transfers will still be approved in the Friday and Saturday between rounds, however teams should take note of the transfer windows in order to prevent issues with their rosters during the season. Transfers can be requested at any point during the season, however the players in question will only be approved and eligible for use after the transfer window.The listed transfer windows can be found below.

Sunday 13th September – Thursday 17th September 2020: Round 1
Sunday 20th September – Thursday 24th September 2020: Round 2

Friday 25th September – Saturday 26th September: Transfer Window 1

Sunday 27th September – Thursday 1st October 2020: Round 3
Sunday 4th October – Thursday 8th October 2020: Round 4

Friday 9th October – Saturday 10th October: Transfer Window 2

Sunday 11th October – Thursday 15th October 2020: Round 5
Sunday 18th October – Thursday 22nd October 2020: Round 6

Friday 23rd October – Saturday 24th October: Transfer Window 3 (final transfer window)

Sunday 25th October – Thursday 29th October 2020: Round 7

MAP POOL

Week 1: cp_granary_pro_rc8/cp_sunshine
Week 2: cp_sunshine/cp_snakewater_final1
Week 3: cp_snakewater_final1/cp_metalworks
Week 4: cp_villa_b16a/cp_gullywash_final1
Week 5: cp_gullywash_final1/koth_product_rcx
Week 6: koth_product_rcx/cp_process_final
Week 7: cp_process_final/cp_reckoner_rc6

Please note: cp_granary_pro_rc8, cp_villa_b16a, koth_product_rcx and cp_reckoner_rc6 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 aliases may be useful for changing maps to the correct version. Add these lines to your autoexec.cfg file, and simply type the name of the map in your console to change to it as long as you have the correct rcon password.

alias bagel "changelevel koth_bagel_rc2a"
alias cardinal "changelevel cp_cardinal_rc1a"
alias granary "changelevel cp_granary_pro_rc8"
alias gullywash "changelevel cp_gullywash_final1"
alias kalinka "changelevel cp_kalinka_rc5"
alias logjam "changelevel cp_logjam_rc12f"
alias process "changelevel cp_process_final"
alias product "changelevel koth_product_rcx"
alias viaduct "changelevel koth_product_rcx"
alias prolands "changelevel cp_prolands_rc2p"
alias badlands "changelevel cp_prolands_rc2p"
alias reckoner "changelevel cp_reckoner_rc6"
alias snakewater "changelevel cp_snakewater_final1"
alias sunshine "changelevel cp_sunshine"

KEY DATES

Sunday 30th August 2020: Signups Open
Wednesday 9th September 2020: Signups Close, Rosters Locked
Saturday 12th September 2020: Teams Announced

Sunday 13th September – Thursday 17th September 2020: Round 1
Sunday 20th September – Thursday 24th September 2020: Round 2
Sunday 27th September – Thursday 1st October 2020: Round 3
Sunday 4th October – Thursday 8th October 2020: Round 4
Sunday 11th October – Thursday 15th October 2020: Round 5
Sunday 18th October – Thursday 22nd October 2020: Round 6
Sunday 25th October – Thursday 29th October 2020: Round 7

Sunday 1st November – Thursday 5th November 2020: Page Playoffs
Sunday 8th November – Thursday 12th November 2020: Semi-Finals
Sunday 15th November – Thursday 19th November 2020: Grand Finals

PAGE PLAYOFFS

All brackets will be using the page playoff system for their finals. Matches with a single listed date will be locked to that date, those with a range will be negotiated within that range similar to regular season matches.

View the whitelist at whitelist.tf

This global whitelist is part of an initiative to unify the international leagues. We will be using the September 2020 edition of the global whitelist.

New items added to the game during the season will be banned until the next season. Modification of weapons will be evaluated by the administrative team. Taunts which are silent and/or toggle-able have been banned.

It is the responsibility of the player to not use these weapons in matches. The whitelist not loading or loading incorrectly is not an excuse for using banned items.