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Thread: Autumn '25 General Feedback Forms & Staff Wanted!
Sperkle Highlander Head Admin & Media Coordinator


Long time no chat! We hope everyone's Autumn '25 seasons are progressing nicely. With Autumn '25 now being half way through we'd just like to take the time to remind you all about General Feedback Forms and their importance. On top of these forms, we'd also like to make another call to arms for community members to apply for a position within one of our ozfortress staff teams.

ozfortress General Feedback Forms

General Feedback Forms are our way of collecting feedback from our seasonal competitions instead of waiting until the end of the season when the feedback may have been forgotten. Ideally, these forms will also help us shape future map pool, whitelist alteration and rule change polls via our discord server for a more streamlined way of voting for changes.

These General Feedback Forms are for bringing up anything you're unhappy with; whether it pertains to Sixes, Highlander or the league as a whole, if you have complaints we want to hear them. Simply moaning about something out of our site won't create the change you want to see. However, bringing whatever issue you have to our attention will at the bare minimum force us (league staff) to look at what your issue(s) is.

You can find the links to both the Sixes and Highlander General Feedback Forms below so please don't shy away from telling us what you think.

Highlander General Feedback Form
Sixes General Feedback Form

Staff Wanted:

At the tail end of the Autumn '25 season, we'll be looking to bring on some new staff to fill in roles across all groups of the ozfortress staff team. League Admins, Advisors, Developers, the works - we want you! All we ask is that you're considerate, and motivated to put in the work to help ozfortress thrive in future seasons.

The applications matters people. We don't just go off of what we know about you, or a vibe, so please put some effort into your application, it is very telling how committed someone will be by just glancing at their application.

League Administrators

League Administrators (or Admins) are responsible for the running of seasonal leagues as well as many of the off-season events within ozfortress. Seeding teams and applying player restrictions, generating rounds on the ozfortress website and in the captain's discord, handing out league penalties and leasing between players when issues arise are core responsibilities of Admins.

While it may sound like a lot of work the responsibilities are even distributed amongst admins with additional leeway being given to first-season admins who have the title of 'Trial Admin' before progressing to a 'League Admin' once they pass probation.

Advisors

Advisors are broken up into different categories depending on their overall knowledge and assist the Admin teams in seeding teams and restricting players before the start of each season, as well as providing thoughts on future transfers and assisting in making other decisions made during the season. We have three advisor teams for; Sixes, Highlander and out-of-region players.

Behaviour Panel

The Behaviour Panel is a mostly anonymous panel of individuals who review community behaviour reports to determine if our behavioural rules have been breached. The Behaviour Panel is always accepting applications!

Anti-Cheat Team

The Anti-Cheat Team is responsible for upholding competitive integrity through reviewing community Anti-Cheat reports. The team is always looking for anyone with significant game experience, knowledge of third-party cheating clients, game modification exploits, cheat development, etc. Similar to the Behavior Panel, this team is anonymous.

Development Team

The Development Team is currently on the hunt for Ruby on Rails and Python developers but those of any other development backgrounds are welcome to apply. The team primarily works on streamlining ozfortress operations like the Captain's Discord as well as making improvements to the website.


If any of these positions have piqued your interest, apply via the links below. Please don't shy away we're always looking for new staff!

  • Apply for League Administrator, Advisor or Developer teams here
  • Apply for the Behavior Panel here
  • Apply for the Anti-Cheat Team here

Thread: Highlander Autumn '25 - Final Pre-season Update
Sperkle Highlander Head Admin & Media Coordinator

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Final Seedings, Player Restrictions & Match Generation

We haven't made any changes to the initial Seedings listed in our first Seedings Post on Sunday. However, we have made some minor changes to our Player Restrictions. We believe that the divisional spilt we crafted in the previous post as well as our approach for Player Restrictions is fair and within reason. Below you can view our modifications that have been made to player restrictions:

FIN Scout Restriction lifted.
Wergy Scout Restriction lifted.

We intend to generate Round 1 of Autumn '25 Highlander tonight so please ensure that if you're a Captain of any participating teams that you have joined our ozfortress Team Captain's Discord.


Map Pool Modification

We have reverted the Map Pool to it's first iteration, returning Product and Swiftwater to Round 5, with Eruption and Proot returning to Round 6. This makes it so that Premier will play all the maps in their 5-week Regular Season where as prior to this change they would of missed out on playing Swiftwater. You can find the full Map Pool schedule here.


LDU Qualifiers, Season Break & Playoffs Dates

After Round 1 of Highlander and Round 2 of Sixes there will be on a one week hiatus to ensure teams and players have ample time to prepare for the Lan Down Under Qualifiers set to occur from the 21st - 23rd of February! If you need are confused at all you can still find the full season's set of dates including the break for LDU Qualifiers on the respective Highlander '25 and Sixes '25 Key Dates.

Please also keep in mind that this season's Grand & Bronze Final dates fall on the Easter long weekend. So please plan accordingly.

Thread: Highlander Autumn '25 - Preliminary Placements, Player Restrictions & Season Break After Round 1
Sperkle Highlander Head Admin & Media Coordinator

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PRELIMINARY SEEDINGS


What's 9+10?

21! That's right! 21 teams have signed up to compete in our 9th season of ozfortress Highlander! Making it not only the biggest season in ozfortress history but also the largest season of competitive Highlander in the AU/NZ region since the days of UGC. We'd like to thank you all for joining us and helping us achieve this monumental milestone; we're looking forward to seeing the competition unfold over the coming weeks.

Below you can find our initial seedings for Autumn '25. If you have any issues with these or with any of the accompanying player restrictions, please reach out to any of our Highlander Administrators or via our help and feedback channel/support ticket system in the ozfortress Discord.


PREMIER

Leap of Faith Deluxe

BRIANLANDER

oh crab !

crunch cats

Where no ability meets no effort

Mates Rates

INTERMEDIATE

Metaphorical Idioms

Team Falcons

spentagon fever

MAINAZUMA9

Rich and Grainous

Stimulate Elderly Reaction

Paws of Steel

OPEN

Fat Fortress

lana del rey fan club

Rent's Due

rat gaming

funny people

Nik-6 (Plus 3)

Fatpoggers Highlander

FELLOWSHIP OF THE SANDVICH


Return to 3 Divisions

For the first time in over a year, Highlander will be returning to 3 divisions. In the previous years' seasons, we haven't had the signup volume and skill divisions needed to justify a seasonal competition with more than 2 divisions. However, with an influx of new blood as well as our reliable Highlander enthusiasts, we have been able to accommodate what we feel are 3 very impressive and healthy divisions.

As listed above, the divisions this season will be Premier, Intermediate and Open. The Premier division will feature our most established teams whose players have competed in multiple seasons at the highest level. While the players in the 5th and 6th seeded teams have less overall experience than the teams seeded 4th and above, we believe that their recent performances in high divisions of 6's and Highlander warrant them being placed in Premier rather than the division below with teams that lack experience at these high levels of play.

The Intermediate division is a step down from the Premier division but still has many talented players within its ranks. Teams in this division, while not being at the same level or having as much experience as those in Premier, are a cut above a lot of the players in the lowest division. Even teams seeded 7th and 8th have players too strong to compete within the bottom division, as restricting said players would result in compromised rosters that would need substantial reworking.

Finally, the Open division is our last and largest division. This division is mostly comprised of players with minimal amounts of experience (1-2 seasons) or players who are completely new to competitive Team Fortress 2 and Highlander. If you are apart of the latter, welcome! We hope you enjoy your time here. Thus, this division is acting as a sort of "Newbie Division" and serves as an ideal entrance to organised competitive TF2!


Restrictions

As always, the restrictions listed on our Player Restrictions page are not final until the season begins. However, we feel it is worth mentioning that we have tried to take a minimal approach to restrictions this season, within reason, which comes as a side effect of having these 3 divisions. While we still are restricting players in the Intermediate and Open divisions who we feel would be too strong on particular classes, we have also allowed leeway for certain players that in past seasons haven't had this option. For example, some players in the Intermediate division would normally be restricted off particular classes in a 2-division season of Highlander and are now being "allowed to cook" as the kids say. The same can be said for players in Open, as only the ones who fall outside the classification of minimal experience have been restricted.


Season Progression, Rounds & Season Break

For the Premier Division, the regular season will be 5 rounds long with each team playing each other once. Then, Page Playoffs will be played, resulting in an 8-round season. As for the Intermediate and Open Divisions, the regular season will be 7 rounds long with each team playing each other once, after which Page Playoffs will commence for a total of an 11-round season. The only key difference between the Intermediate and Open seasons is that the Intermediate division will have 1 bye week per team, while the Open division will play all 7 rounds without byes being required.

With the shorter season, Premier will only have 3 transfer windows, locking rosters from round 4 and beyond, whereas Intermediate and Open will have the standard 5 transfer windows. You can view additional information transfers on the Key Dates & Transfer Windows section of our league page.

Round 1 of Autumn '25 Highlander will begin on Wednesday, the 12th of February, and will conclude on Sunday, the 16th of Febuary. After this, Round 2 will be delayed by a week and will begin on Wednesday, the 26th of February, to accommodate for the Lan Down Under Qualifiers that will be held between the 21st and 23rd of February.


Thread: Highlander Autumn '25 (S9) - Map Pool, Season Changes & More!
Sperkle Highlander Head Admin & Media Coordinator

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Highlander Autumn '25 Changes!

The following are changes that will debut in Highlander Autumn '25.

Fresh Meat (New Admin)

Please welcome Pulse, our newest Trial Highlander Administrator, who will be joining the team this coming season! Pulse has been an active member of our Highlander community over the last few seasons and has provided us with excellent feedback and opinions over said seasons. We're very pleased to bring him onto the ozfortress staff team, and we know he'll do great things this coming season.

Map Pool

Below, you'll find the Autumn '25 Map Pool.

Highlander Autumn '25 Map Pool:

Upward

Swiftwater

Vigil

Eruption

Steel

Product

Ashville

Proot

Similar to last season, we're sticking with a total of 8 maps for Autumn '25. We have also stuck to our mission of rotating a minimum of one map out a season to add variety alongside the maps we all know and enjoy in our Highlander competitions. A detailed Map Schedule will be released in the coming days.

So Long Summercoast

Just like the season it was named after, Summercoast's time has come to an end. Upon reviewing our post-season surveys, it was clear that players didn't enjoy playing Summercoast in the Spring '24 Highlander season. This was further reflected in a follow-up map vote with the map receiving minimal votes to its contemporaries, Eruption and Borneo. Although we intended to keep Summercoast in for a minimum of 2 regular seasons to give players a chance to learn and enjoy the map, the outcry for its removal was too large to ignore, and thus Summercoast will be removed from the season for the foreseeable future.

I Am Proot

With our initial idea to keep Summercoast in for a minimum of 2 seasons, Proot was meant to be on the chopping block for replacement. However, after making the decision to drop Summercoast in favour of another Stopwatch map, we have opted to leave Proot in for another season. The map wasn't overwhelmingly disliked like Summercoast and had a positive reception from players, thus justifying our decision to leave it in for another season.

Eruption > Borneo

Like the legendary guitar solo of the same name, Eruption is here to leave its mark! With Summercoast being removed, 2 candidates were front runners for inclusion in the Autumn '25 Highlander season. Borneo and Eruption were both highly requested in our Post-season survey, so we decided to poll both maps in a recent Discord poll. To our shock, both maps tied with a total of 76 votes each. This is the second time that Borneo and Eruption have tied in our map vote. The first time this happened, we chose to include Borneo in the map pool, where it lagged significantly behind other maps in it's post-season reception. After careful consideration and feedback from the community, we’ve decided to go with Eruption for this season, given its recent updates and positive reception from players.

Eruption's recent balance updates as well as play in other regions, compared to Borneo's lack there of as well as their respective playtime in the global Highlander ethos outside of ozfortress also cemented our decision. Furthermore, Eruption has only seen 1 full season of league play in ozfortress back in Spring '23/ Season 5 where players weren't opposed to playing the map again in future seasons, whereas Borneo has been played in 4 seasons, constantly in a state of 'in and out.'. We're hoping that players and teams will be able to form more concrete opinions about Eruption over the next 2 seasons after they've had time to learn the map and explore it further.


Playoffs

Returning to Page Playoffs

Last season we experimented with a new playoffs concept in 'Expanded Playoffs' which allowed the top 6 teams from each division to progress into playoffs opposed to the usual top 4 teams progressing forward that is found in Page Playoffs. Unfortunately, after reflecting on its inclusion in Spring '24, we can't justify using it again in future regular seasons, as it has flaws that don't allow teams to be accurately ranked from 1st to 4th at the end of playoffs. Expanded playoffs may return in future off-season competitions that take place over shorter time frames, as a key strength of the format is its use of double elimination. We intend to return to our tried-and-true Page Playoffs system this season, which is only single elimination and flows better come playoffs.

Bronze Final Continuation

After its introduction in Experimental Cup 3 and its regular season debut in Spring '24, the Highlander Bronze Finals have been a huge success, with the majority of players liking the idea of a final match between 3rd and 4th place. Thus, we will be keeping bronze finals going for all divisions for Autumn '25 Highlander and beyond.

Tiebreaker Measures: Round Win Rate Method of Calculation

Come playoffs, if teams are tied and their correct standing can't be determined via our first and second tie-breaker measures (being Map Points and Direct encounter, respectively), then a Round Win rate calculation will be performed. Moving forward we'll be listing the formulas used to make this calculation in our rules alongside our other Tiebreaker Measures on our docs in the coming days, as there is no reason for this information to not be public in the first place.

If you have any questions about the way this calculation is performed, please reach out to its creator and fellow Highlander admin, redja on Discord via @redja.


Rule Changes

There will be a News Post detailing all upcoming changes that will affect both Sixes and Highlander coming out in the following days. This Post will list changes we're making, such as how we deal with teams playing with cheaters, map play order, and more.


Signups Close Soon!

Don't forget that signups close next Wednesday, February 5th, at 11:59pm AEDT. If you require any assistance, such as finding a team, finding players, or any other sort of help, please reach out to our Highlander Admins or, alternatively, open a support ticket in our Discord.

Thread: Highlander Autumn '25 (S9) - Signups Open & Changes to come.
Sperkle Highlander Head Admin & Media Coordinator

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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.

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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.

Thread: Autumn '25 - Round Bans
Sperkle Highlander Head Admin & Media Coordinator

Spring '24 Round Bans

  • rohan Banned Rounds 1 & 2 of Spring '24.
  • lau Banned Round 1 of Spring '24.
  • bubsdoge Banned Rounds 1 & 2 of Spring '24.
  • arqu Banned Round 1 of Spring '24.
  • APVC Banned Rounds 1, 2 & 3 of Spring '24.
  • 21st Century Schizoid Yeen Banned Rounds 1, 2 & 3 of Spring '24.
Thread: Highlander Autumn '25 (S9) - Transfer History & Mercenaries
Sperkle Highlander Head Admin & Media Coordinator

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Premier Transfer History

Transfer Window #1


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Transfer Window #3


Emergency Transfers


Intermediate Transfer History

Transfer Window #1


Transfer Window #2


Transfer Window #3


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Transfer Window #5


Emergency Transfers


Open Transfer History

Transfer Window #1


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Transfer Window #3

None


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

Flow merc'd for crunch cats
Sleepy merc'd for crunch cats
doc merc'd for BRIANLANDER
bubsdoge merc'd for BRIANLANDER
thethingy merc'd for Where no ability meets no effort
sphilliz merc'd for Where no ability meets no effort
Train Smash merc'd for Where no ability meets no effort


Round 2

WinterPizza850 merc'd for Mates Rates
Akim merc'd for Mates Rates
eden merc'd for Where no ability meets no effort
Sephyr merc'd for Where no ability meets no effort
oLae!™ merc'd for Where no ability meets no effort


Round 3

ziah merc'd for Mates Rates
Ghost merc'd for BRIANLANDER
john the asian merc'd for Leap of Faith Deluxe
Link merc'd for Where no ability meets no effort
mean bug merc'd for Where no ability meets no effort


Round 4

Link merc'd for Where no ability meets no effort
Styx merc'd for Leap of Faith Deluxe


Round 5

squonk merc'd for BRIANLANDER
LiquidAlchemy merc'd for BRIANLANDER


Playoffs Round 1

myyyst merc'd for oh crab !


Playoffs Round 2

Playoffs Round 3

Intermediate Merc History

Round 1

Exquizit merc'd for Stimulate Elderly Reaction


Round 2

Capy merc'd for Paws of Steel
silent merc'd for Rich and Grainous
Glitchy merc'd for MAINAZUMA9


Round 3

Glitchy merc'd for Paws of Steel
Hive merc'd for Stimulate Elderly Reaction
Chonk merc'd for Metaphorical Idioms


Round 4

Robouki merc'd for MAINAZUMA9
Relz merc'd for Paws of Steel
San merc'd for Spentagon Fever


Round 5

FIN merc'd for MAINAZUMA9
Eden merc'd for Spentagon Fever


Round 6

s1mon merc'd for MAINAZUMA9
randomcat merc'd for MAINAZUMA9
reeee.vol 2 merc'd for Stimulate Elderly Reaction


Round 7

silent merc'd for MAINAZUMA9
choco milk merc'd for Paws of Steel


Playoffs Round 1

peep merc'd for Spentagon Fever


Playoffs Round 2

Playoffs Round 3

Open Merc History

Round 1

Akari merc'd for Rent's Due
Styx merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
Xaevra merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
James16 merc'd for Lana Del Ray Fan Club
Gunwrong merc'd for Fatpoggers Highlander
Brick merc'd for Fellowship of the Sandvich
Fam merc'd for Fellowship of the Sandvich
Broccoli merc'd for Fat Fortress
April merc'd for Rat Gaming
Silent* merc'd for Rat Gaming
Arbabf merc'd for Rat Gaming


Round 2

Captain Sigma merc'd for Funny People
Sulu merc'd for Funny People
ItKickedMeOutOfMyLast[JOLLY] merc'd for Funny People
Bree merc'd for Rat Gaming
Reality Surf/Kafka1920 merc'd for Rent's Due
Frogluvr merc'd for Rent's Due


Round 3

Fam merc'd for Lana Del Rey fan club
Juna merc'd for Lana Del Rey fan club
AussieBoi merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
Kenji merc'd for Fellowship of the Sandvich
Karly merc'd for Rat Gaming
juliangonzales2009@yahoo.com merc'd for Rat Gaming


Round 4

Kenji merc'd for Fellowship of the Sandvich
miss information merc'd for Lana Del Rey fan club
SwaySway merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
Frosted merc'd for Funny People
Ziah merc'd for Funny People
Yeetingbaby merc'd for Fat Fortress
Scarlllyyy. merc'd for Fat Fortress


Round 5

juliangonzales2009@yahoo.com merc'd for Rat gaming
Hekitty merc'd for Fat Fortress
Mean bug merc'd for Fat Fortress
SwaySway merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
Hekitty merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
Scarlllyyy. merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
Sulu merc'd for Funny People


Round 6

Noemie merc'd for Funny People
Mercicrux merc'd for Funny People
ÅɞîD merc'd for Funny People
mean bug merc'd for Fat Fortress
broccoli merc’d for Rat gaming
arbabf merc'd for Lana Del Rey fan club


Round 7

juliangonzales2009@yahoo.com merc'd for Fat Fortress
Scarlllyyy merc'd for Fat Fortress
Broccoli merc'd for Fat Fortress
Kafka1920 merc'd for Fellowship of the sandvich
Froglvvr merc'd for Rent's Due
Scarlllyyy merc'd for Rent's Due
mitch merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
Karly merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
Froglvvr merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
FIN merc'd for Funny People
Plumsy merc'd for Rat Gaming
Yeetingbaby merc'd for Rat Gaming
Dezi merc'd for Lana Del Rey fan club
MGM merc'd for Lana Del Rey fan club


Playoffs Round 1

juliangonzales2009@yahoo.com merc'd for Fat Fortress
Cantrip merc'd for Rent's Due
juliangonzales2009@yahoo.com merc'd for Lana Del Rey fan club
Yeetingbaby merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
theatreTECHIE merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)
gamer juice merc'd for Nik-6 (Plus 3)


Playoffs Round 2

Playoffs Round 3

Thread: Highlander Autumn '25 (S9) - Key Dates & Transfer Windows
Sperkle Highlander Head Admin & Media Coordinator

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Key Dates & Transfer Windows


Key Dates

Signups & Seedings Dates

Thursday 16th of January 2025: Signups Open
Thursday 6th 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: Season Break - LDU Qualifiers
Wednesday 26th February - Sunday 2nd March 2025: Round 2
Wednesday 5th March - Sunday 9rd March 2025: Round 3
Roster Lock applied on Wednesday 12th March 2025 For Premier
Wednesday 12th March - Sunday 16th March 2025: Round 4
Wednesday 19th March - Sunday 23rd March 2025: Round 5
Roster Lock applied on Wednesday 26th March 2025 For Intermediate & Open
Wednesday 26th March - Sunday 30th March 2025: Round 6 (Intermediate & Open Only)
Wednesday 2nd April - Sunday 6th April 2025: Round 7 (Intermediate & Open Only)

Playoffs Dates for Premier

Wednesday 26th March - Sunday 30th March 2025: Playoffs Round 1 / Page Playoffs
Wednesday 2nd April - Sunday 6th April 2025: Playoffs Round 2 / Semi-Finals
Wednesday 9th April - Sunday 13th April 2025: Playoffs Round 3 / Grand & Bronze Finals

Playoffs Dates for Intermediate & Open

Wednesday 9th April - Sunday 13th April 2025: Playoffs Round 1 / Page Playoffs
Wednesday 16th April - Sunday 20th April 2025: Playoffs Round 2 / Semi-Finals
Wednesday 23rd April - Sunday 27th April 2025: Playoffs Round 3 / Grand & Bronze Finals

Transfer Windows

Wednesday 12th February - Tuesday 18th February 2025: Transfer Window 1
Wednesday 19th February - Tuesday 4th March 2025: Transfer Window 2
Wednesday 5th March - Tuesday 11th March 2025: Transfer Window 3
Wednesday 12th March 2025: Premier Roster Lock
Wednesday 12th March 2025 - Tuesday 18th March 2025: Transfer Window 4
Wednesday 19th March 2025 - Tuesday 25th March 2025: Transfer Window 5
Wednesday 26th March 2025: Intermediate & Open Roster Lock

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.