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Excuse the dust...

With Season 34 all wrapped up, it's about time we formally congratulate the teams! We would like to thank everyone for returning for the thirty-fourth season of ozfortress, We have an off-season cup coming up this month, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled for more info, which should be out soon!

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Congratulations Premier winners Witness Gaming!

Placements

1st - Witness Gaming
2nd - evcb8k645nmwertsfn
3rd - NO BADGES?

Logs

Process - 6 - 1
Clearcut - 3 - 0
Granary - 5 - 0
Match Thread

Awards

Best Combo Scout: cooki
Best Flank Scout: Elmo
Best Pocket: ALT
Best Roamer: down
Best Demoman: enrith
Best Medic: lau
Best Utility: Sam

Most Improved Player: Mikcow
Most Valuable Player: enrith

Friendliest Team: Ascension
Most Improved Team: evcb8k645nmwertsfn
Best Dressed Team: Ascension
Best Caster: Luggnuts

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Congratulations Intermediate winners CURSED!

Placements

1st - CURSED
2nd - First Class
3rd - THE HANDS OF PARIS

Logs

Clearcut - 3 - 0
Process - 1 - 5
Reckoner - 3 - 1
Match Thread

Awards

Best Combo Scout: T3
Best Flank Scout: HUNGRY, adam and doc
Best Pocket: ckm
Best Roamer: sao, face and 2345y
Best Demoman: Pengstah
Best Medic: jane doe
Best Utility: 2345y

Most Improved Player: luckt
Most Valuable Player: yuki

Friendliest Team: Terrible Tactics
Most Improved Team: CURSED
Best Dressed Team: Terrible Tactics
Best Caster: Luggnuts and fryd0g

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Congratulations Main winners Sharkylin12!

Placements

1st - Sharkylin12
2nd - muscle mercs
3rd - hot boy summer

Logs

Gullywash - 3 - 1
Sunshine - 1 - 6
Clearcut - 3 - 2
Match Thread

Awards

Best Combo Scout: odin and klebs
Best Flank Scout: Rogue
Best Pocket: Hazel and shark
Best Roamer: Conner and jv
Best Demoman: multi and chief
Best Medic: maid and Mio
Best Utility: Miffy

Most Improved Player: Conner
Most Valuable Player: brownie, klebs and chief

Friendliest Team: Salt Free Gaming and muscle mercs
Most Improved Team: Posse Pounders and sharkylin12
Best Dressed Team: Posse Pounders and muscle mercs
Best Caster: Luggnuts and Avo

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Congratulations Open winners camping!

Placements

1st - camping
2nd - Should Be Studying
3rd - blu team

Logs

Bagel - 3 - 2
Prolands - 0 - 2
Snakewater - 6 - 4
Match Thread

Awards

Best Combo Scout: noobar
Best Flank Scout: Blakeyboy and tas
Best Pocket: Sun and luna
Best Roamer: noahsun
Best Demoman: krb
Best Medic: Rahmed
Best Utility: Blakeyboy

Most Improved Player: K13R7N, hoosen and aloox
Most Valuable Player: beefs, luna and noobar

Friendliest Team: blu team
Most Improved Team: ALT F4
Best Dressed Team: MR Corp
Best Caster: fryd0g

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Increase in Infractions

Since the inception of the infractions system, we have seen a gentle increase in the number of infractions delivered on players within ozfortress. There are arguably many factors that have caused this increase, and we're aware of our own effect on that increase. However, in 2022 we have noticed an increase outside of our own influence on the infraction system and in a 5-month period between February 27th 2022 to July 30th 2022, 44 infractions have been handed down to players. Of those 44 infractions, 33 have been Tier 3 infractions, with Tier 2 infractions hitting only 6, and Tier 1 infractions closely following with 5. Of the 33 Tier 3 infractions, 28 of them were for "General bigotry/use of derogatory slurs against an individual or group" (16) or "Discrimination of any kind" (12). This in comparison with our infractions in 2021, is a significant increase over any period prior to the 5-month period described above. We will continue to observe the changes in the volume of infractions, but we figured there are people who may have been curious as to how many infractions we hand out, and some insight into which infractions we typically deal with.

Probation period for offenders

We've heard from players that many feel those who re-offend after serving a ban period are not being hit hard enough, and this is something we have also felt internally. With that in mind, we are looking to reintroduce a refined probation system to our Infraction Threshold bans. With this new probation period, offenders can expect increased penalties when incurring infractions. These increased penalties can be seen below.

• Tier 3 infractions are now worth double the points and will incur a 1-year ban instantly.
• Tier 2 infractions are now worth 10 more points, bringing their total to 30 points. This will mean two Tier 2 offences will also land the individual a 1-year ban.
• Tier 1 infractions are now worth 20 points, again another bump of 10 points. Three of these offences would incur a 1-year ban.

The probation period for those who have just served an infraction threshold ban is 12 months. Once you have served this probation period, you will be out of probation, and gain infractions at their typical point amounts.

Infraction changes

This time around, there are only a couple of changes.

Removed:

• T1: Failure to run proper alias / fake nicking in a cast of an official match by an approved casting organisation.

We are working on tools to solve aliasing issues within casted matches. We have found that while we can continue to infract players for failing to follow the rules around this infraction, the workload of doing so isn't justified. This does not mean we will be lenient on aliases, quite the opposite. We plan to make changes to name change requests and team names going forward.

Added:

• Destructive server administration / Failure to follow config/format limitations.

Whilst more typically involved in instances of throwing, we feel that we need to add this infraction to further police server administration and failure to follow (as the clause says) config limitations such as; player restrictions, format restrictions, class limitations, player numbers, etc.

Update on infraction members

We mentioned previously that we wouldn't state who is on the Behaviour Panel, but there have been some amendments to this. We give any administrators looking to join the team the option to remain private, but out of the interest of transparency, we ask that administrators on the Behaviour Panel are publicly listed. So, we welcome our first public member, Bakes.

We hope these changes represent the players' expectations when managing behaviour, and more properly reflect our intentions for this system. The infractions ruleset will be something that sees updates in the future, and if you have any questions or concerns regarding anything that has been changed, feel free to chuck a DM to core#6440 on discord.

Cheers,
The ozfortress staff team.

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League Ban/Infraction Threshold reached

magnett STEAM_0:1:159946378

This player has accrued a total of 60 ozfortress infraction points. As such, the player has been banned from ozfortress.com, the community's competitions, and all other ozfortress properties for a period of 1 year, after which time they will be on permanent probation. If they are found ban evading during their competition bans, their ban duration will be extended.

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Should ANY clans 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.

The voting threads for the end-of-season awards have now been posted! The votes must be sent through to core (core#6440) in a Discord DM using the correct formatting by Monday the 1st of August 2022 at midnight by every team captain. Failing to do this will prevent your votes from counting.

Only captains to vote. Please submit with 3 votes for EVERY category. You only have to do the division your team participated in.

Premier Votes
Intermediate Votes
Main Votes
Open Votes

How to vote:
Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. The first name will receive three votes, the second will receive two votes and the third will receive one vote. Voting for your own teammates is not allowed, regardless of the award.

Important formatting - you must copy-paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!

Your team name:
Your team division: Premier

Best Combo Scout: first-place vote, second-place vote, third-place vote
Best Demoman:
Best Flank Scout:
Best Medic:
Best Pocket:
Best Roamer:
Best Utility:
Friendliest Team:
Most Improved Player:
Most Improved Team:
Most Valuable Player:
Best Dressed Team:
Best Caster:

Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. Voting for your own teammates is not allowed.

Your completed template should look like this (with the correct players on their classes, the same players have been used for each award in this example for simplicity) without the point allocations after each player name:

Your team name: Your Team Here
Your team division: Your Division Here

Best Combo Scout: /dev/zero (3 points), wiggin (2 points), obla (1 point)
Best Demoman: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Flank Scout: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Medic: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Pocket: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Roamer: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Utility: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Friendliest Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Most Improved Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Most Improved Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Most Valuable Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Dressed Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Best Caster: The Heavy, The Demoman, The Scout

Important formatting - you must copy-paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!
The votes must be sent through to core (core#6440) in a Discord DM using the correct formatting by Monday the 1st of August 2022 at midnight by every team captain. Failing to do this will prevent your votes from counting.

How voting is calculated
We will use instant runoff voting to calculate the results.

The following players and teams are nominated for awards:

Best Combo Scout: Paulsen, Sam, bishaminty, cooki, krollic, memories, smazza

Best Demoman: Daz, Lexx, cobra, deft, enrith, fryd0g, mef

Best Flank Scout: Elmo, Lev, aino, camille, dauq, gort, precious

Best Medic: Doge.exe, Mikcow, R4T8, Ravu4, lau, raina, v4na

Best Pocket: ALT, Bread, Moop, conor, fez, matt, yewl

Best Roamer: Andyroo, afroman, down, feyn, gus, redcoatzygote, rintincan

Best Utility: Andyroo, Elmo, Lev, Sam, aino, matt, silvo

Friendliest Team: Ascension, Cruelty Squad, NO BADGES, Recursion, Witness Gaming, evcb8k645nmwertsfn, pin pals

Most Improved Player: ALT, Lev, Mikcow, bishaminty, down, gus, yewl

Most Improved Team: Ascension, Cruelty Squad, NO BADGES, Recursion, Witness Gaming, evcb8k645nmwertsfn, pin pals

Most Valuable Player: ALT, Andyroo, Bread, Daz, Doge.exe, Elmo, Lev, Lexx, Mikcow, Moop, Paulsen, R4T8, Ravu4, Sam, afroman, aino, bishaminty, camille, cobra, conor, cooki, dauq, deft, down, enrith, feyn, fez, fryd0g, gort, gus, krollic, lau, matt, mef, memories, precious, raina, redcoatzygote, rintincan, silvo, smazza, v4na, yewl

Best Dressed Team: Ascension, Cruelty Squad, NO BADGES, Recursion, Witness Gaming, evcb8k645nmwertsfn, pin pals

Best Caster: Luggnuts, fryd0g, Avo, Ravu4, Shakey & RRLUCKY

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Thank you based Valen for their work to improve our scripts used for nominations and voting!

How to vote:
Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. The first name will receive three votes, the second will receive two votes and the third will receive one vote. Voting for your own teammates is not allowed, regardless of the award.

Important formatting - you must copy-paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!

Your team name:
Your team division: Intermediate

Best Combo Scout: first-place vote, second-place vote, third-place vote
Best Demoman:
Best Flank Scout:
Best Medic:
Best Pocket:
Best Roamer:
Best Utility:
Friendliest Team:
Most Improved Player:
Most Improved Team:
Most Valuable Player:
Best Dressed Team:
Best Caster:

Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. Voting for your own teammates is not allowed.

Your completed template should look like this (with the correct players on their classes, the same players have been used for each award in this example for simplicity) without the point allocations after each player name:

Your team name: Your Team Here
Your team division: Your Division Here

Best Combo Scout: /dev/zero (3 points), wiggin (2 points), obla (1 point)
Best Demoman: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Flank Scout: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Medic: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Pocket: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Roamer: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Utility: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Friendliest Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Most Improved Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Most Improved Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Most Valuable Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Dressed Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Best Caster: The Heavy, The Demoman, The Scout

Important formatting - you must copy-paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!
The votes must be sent through to core (core#6440) in a Discord DM using the correct formatting by Monday the 1st of August 2022 at midnight by every team captain. Failing to do this will prevent your votes from counting.

How voting is calculated
We will use instant runoff voting to calculate the results.

The following players and teams are nominated for awards:

Best Combo Scout: Beats, Platinum, T3, donn, donna, john, kory

Best Demoman: Pengstah, chimes, hef, luckt, reign, user, yuki

Best Flank Scout: HUNGRY, adam, apa3, doc, ethan, monti, moomoo

Best Medic: Brady, SPACESHIP, Sephyr, Voltage, doctrine, jane doe, samson

Best Pocket: RRLUCKY, Rei, Schmuck, a team of ants in their prime, berko, ckm, wackelpudding

Best Roamer: 2345y, Face, Stamm, Wirthy, avo, instinct, sao

Best Utility: 2345y, HUNGRY, Platinum, berto, doc, ethan, kory

Friendliest Team: Avos cados, CURSED, First Class, SHAFT, Susanoo, THE HANDS OF PARIS, Terrible Tactics

Most Improved Player: Pipelin12, Stamm, apa3, luckt, reign, yuki, zerk

Most Improved Team: Avos cados, CURSED, First Class, SHAFT, Susanoo, THE HANDS OF PARIS, Terrible Tactics

Most Valuable Player: 2345y, Beats, Brady, Face, HUNGRY, Pengstah, Pipelin12, Platinum, RRLUCKY, Rei, SPACESHIP, Schmuck, Sephyr, Stamm, T3, Voltage, Wirthy, a team of ants in their prime, adam, apa3, avo, berko, berto, chimes, ckm, doc, doctrine, donn, donna, ethan, hef, instinct, jane doe, john, kory, luckt, monti, moomoo, reign, samson, sao, user, wackelpudding, yuki, zerk

Best Dressed Team: Avos cados, CURSED, First Class, SHAFT, Susanoo, THE HANDS OF PARIS, Terrible Tactics

Best Caster: Luggnuts, fryd0g, Avo, Ravu4, Shakey & RRLUCKY

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Thank you based Valen for their work to improve our scripts used for nominations and voting!

How to vote:
Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. The first name will receive three votes, the second will receive two votes and the third will receive one vote. Voting for your own teammates is not allowed, regardless of the award.

Important formatting - you must copy-paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!

Your team name:
Your team division: Main

Best Combo Scout: first-place vote, second-place vote, third-place vote
Best Demoman:
Best Flank Scout:
Best Medic:
Best Pocket:
Best Roamer:
Best Utility:
Friendliest Team:
Most Improved Player:
Most Improved Team:
Most Valuable Player:
Best Dressed Team:
Best Caster:

Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. Voting for your own teammates is not allowed.

Your completed template should look like this (with the correct players on their classes, the same players have been used for each award in this example for simplicity) without the point allocations after each player name:

Your team name: Your Team Here
Your team division: Your Division Here

Best Combo Scout: /dev/zero (3 points), wiggin (2 points), obla (1 point)
Best Demoman: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Flank Scout: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Medic: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Pocket: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Roamer: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Utility: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Friendliest Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Most Improved Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Most Improved Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Most Valuable Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Dressed Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Best Caster: The Heavy, The Demoman, The Scout

Important formatting - you must copy-paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!
The votes must be sent through to core (core#6440) in a Discord DM using the correct formatting by Monday the 1st of August 2022 at midnight by every team captain. Failing to do this will prevent your votes from counting.

How voting is calculated
We will use instant runoff voting to calculate the results.

The following players and teams are nominated for awards:

Best Combo Scout: Miffy, The Wiggin, farn, huffy, klebs, odin, typo

Best Demoman: Duckypus, bambi, bible, catfish, chief, lux, multi

Best Flank Scout: Max, Rogue, brownie, fuz, macca, remorse, xander

Best Medic: Mio, Nobo, boo, laz, maid, mal, snazzy

Best Pocket: BEN, Gotaki, Hazel, Liquid, shark, shneersh, skaz

Best Roamer: Bubsdoge, Conner, Posse, Zildjian, jv, lightning, seinfeld

Best Utility: Miffy, Rogue, brownie, farn, huffy, lightning, xander

Friendliest Team: EGGFORTRESS, Posse Pounders, RAC: fryd0gs fangirls, Salt Free Gaming, hot boy summer, muscle mercs, sharkylin12

Most Improved Player: Conner, DANTE, Posse, boo, macca, shneersh, snazzy

Most Improved Team: EGGFORTRESS, Posse Pounders, RAC: fryd0gs fangirls, Salt Free Gaming, hot boy summer, muscle mercs, sharkylin12

Most Valuable Player: BEN, Bubsdoge, Conner, DANTE, Duckypus, Gotaki, Hazel, Liquid, Max, Miffy, Mio, Nobo, Posse, Rogue, The Wiggin, Zildjian, bambi, bible, boo, brownie, catfish, chief, farn, fuz, huffy, jv, klebs, laz, lightning, lux, macca, maid, mal, multi, odin, remorse, seinfeld, shark, shneersh, skaz, snazzy, typo, xander

Best Dressed Team: EGGFORTRESS, Posse Pounders, RAC: fryd0gs fangirls, Salt Free Gaming, hot boy summer, muscle mercs, sharkylin12

Best Caster: Luggnuts, fryd0g, Avo, Ravu4, Shakey & RRLUCKY

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Thank you based Valen for their work to improve our scripts used for nominations and voting!

How to vote:
Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. The first name will receive three votes, the second will receive two votes and the third will receive one vote. Voting for your own teammates is not allowed, regardless of the award.

Important formatting - you must copy-paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!

Your team name:
Your team division: Open

Best Combo Scout: first-place vote, second-place vote, third-place vote
Best Demoman:
Best Flank Scout:
Best Medic:
Best Pocket:
Best Roamer:
Best Utility:
Friendliest Team:
Most Improved Player:
Most Improved Team:
Most Valuable Player:
Best Dressed Team:
Best Caster:

Captains shall select three options and put them in order from highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. Voting for your own teammates is not allowed.

Your completed template should look like this (with the correct players on their classes, the same players have been used for each award in this example for simplicity) without the point allocations after each player name:

Your team name: Your Team Here
Your team division: Your Division Here

Best Combo Scout: /dev/zero (3 points), wiggin (2 points), obla (1 point)
Best Demoman: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Flank Scout: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Medic: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Pocket: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Roamer: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Utility: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Friendliest Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Most Improved Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Most Improved Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Most Valuable Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Dressed Team: Team Immunity, Jasmine Tea, Salt Free Gaming
Best Caster: The Heavy, The Demoman, The Scout

Important formatting - you must copy-paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again I am using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!
The votes must be sent through to core (core#6440) in a Discord DM using the correct formatting by Monday the 1st of August 2022 at midnight by every team captain. Failing to do this will prevent your votes from counting.

How voting is calculated
We will use instant runoff voting to calculate the results.

The following players and teams are nominated for awards:

Best Combo Scout: Corn, beefs, deznotech, gaw$, noobar, ubergamer92

Best Demoman: Angus, Chungus McBungus, KRB, Mr Phil, Revan, hobo

Best Flank Scout: Blakeyboy, Tas, WHEN, hoosen, remorse, them

Best Medic: Ness, Rahmed, Sakaso, TUX, lyuiop, surgeon

Best Pocket: Gorgon, Gorgonzilla, K13R7N, Luna, Sun, age

Best Roamer: Cancer, Keller, Less, aloox, jv, noahsun

Best Utility: Blakeyboy, Corn, Scrubsy, Tas, WHEN, deznotech

Friendliest Team: ALT F4, Mr Corp, Runedudes, Should Be Studying, blu team, camping

Most Improved Player: Invidia, K13R7N, Rahmed, aloox, hobo, hoosen

Most Improved Team: ALT F4, Mr Corp, Runedudes, Should Be Studying, blu team, camping

Most Valuable Player: Angus, Blakeyboy, Cancer, Chungus McBungus, Corn, Gorgon, Gorgonzilla, Invidia, K13R7N, KRB, Keller, Less, Luna, Mr Phil, Ness, Rahmed, Revan, Sakaso, Scrubsy, Sun, TUX, Tas, WHEN, age, aloox, beefs, deznotech, gaw$, hobo, hoosen, jv, lyuiop, noahsun, noobar, remorse, surgeon, thm, ubergamer92

Best Dressed Team: ALT F4, Mr Corp, Runedudes, Should Be Studying, blu team, camping

Best Caster: Luggnuts, fryd0g, Avo, Ravu4, Shakey & RRLUCKY

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Thank you based Valen for their work to improve our scripts used for nominations and voting!