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Highlander Autumn '25 Award Voting is now open!

With the majority of finals now complete it's time to open the flood gates and begin voting for the concluded Autumn '25 Highlander season. Voting will be open from now up until Thursday the 1st of May at 11:59pm AEST with teams expected to submit all votes by this deadline. However, if you participated in the Intermediate and Open Divisions which finals have not been completed you're more than welcome to wait before submitting your team's votes until they have been played out. Support is available for both first time vote submitters as well as individuals who may not be familiar with the process. However, the general rundown of the procedure is below and is also expanded upon within the individual voting threads.

• Team captains vote on behalf of their team for players who competed in their teams division for certain categories in which players are nominated in. From left to right players voted will receive 3, 2 and 1 points with the player with the most points receiving the award. All categories require 3 votes with teams and team captains being prohibited from voting for players who were rostered on their team. Votes only need to be done for the division you and your team competed in and are to be sent to the allocated administrator(s) listed in the individual threads linked below.

Highlander Voting

• Premier Voting
• Intermediate Voting
• Open Voting

Post Season Feedback

There is no better time than now to submit any feedback you have for our Autumn '25 Highlander competition. We'll be meeting over the next few weeks to review any issues that arose during the season so if you have anything you'd like us to look into or discuss please leave us a message in the General Feedback Form which is linked below. Further polling will be done prior to the beginning of our decennium season of Highlander within the ozfortress discord.

The feedback we receive from these forms help us make the leagues not only more enjoyable for you, but for the community as a whole that may share your opinions. Your feedback is important! If you have any issues please share them with us, great or small. Otherwise, the changes you want to see may never be implemented and competitions will stay the same for better or worse!

Highlander General Feedback Form

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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.

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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

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Alternate Account Ban

• samdean STEAM_0:0:790217762
  • (ALT) Smoop2020 STEAM_0:1:556622048

The player above has been found using alternate accounts to play within ozfortress. As such, the players have been banned from ozfortress.com, the community's competitions, and all other ozfortress properties for 2 years. If they are found attempting to evade their ban, their ban will be extended.

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Should any individuals or groups within ozfortress be found housing the listed player/s in our competitions, or aiding in ban evasion, those responsible will face severe penalties.