ozfortress
ozfortress is the longest running and most popular competitive Team Fortress 2 league in the Oceanic region. ozfortress supports Highlander, 6v6 and Ultiduo seasonal competitions, as well as numerous offseason events. ozfortress is considered to host the highest level of competitive Team Fortress 2 play in Oceania.
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History[edit]
ozfortress was established in 2001 by TFC players 
mercury and tempest to cater for the competitive Team Fortress Classic community of Australia and New Zealand. ozfortress hosted a variety of TFC tournaments up until the early 2010s before official ozfortress support ended.
The ozfortress website was hosted on a standalone website for the majority of its lifetime until October of 2018, when it was announced that ongoing news posts would be issued on the organisations' Warzone page. In early 2020, the ozfortress forums went offline indefinitely, along with all information pertaining to competitions played before OZF 16. Currently, what was previously the ozfortress Warzone page has taken the domain name of the original ozfortress.com site and is the current home of ozfortress. Large portions of the old forums can be accessed through the Wayback Machine Archive.
Major Leagues and Competitions[edit]
OZF: the ozfortress Sixes Seasonal League[edit]
2016 - Present
Overview[edit]
Announced on the 24th February, 2016, the ozfortress Sixes Seasonal League is the successor to the organization's previous OWL tournaments that concluded with OWL 14 and were continued into OZF 15 and beyond. The tournament has been ran triannually since its inception and features five tiers: Premier, High, Intermediate, Main and Open. Main was introduced as a solution to sandbagging and to provide a middle ground between Open and Intermediate.
Format[edit]
The ozfortress Sixes Seasonal League is most commonly run over a period of 10 weeks, the first seven being allocated to the regular season and the remaining weeks to playoffs. A pool of 9 maps is chosen prior to the seasons' launch. Premier, High and Intermediate are usually played in a round robin bracket, whilst Main and Open are run on the Swiss system. Throughout the regular season, two maps are chosen to be played by all teams each week. At the conclusion of the regular season, the top four teams of each division qualify for playoffs. Playoffs are run in a Bo3 format, with the three maps for each match being determined by a pick/ban system. The Premier grand final is a Bo5.
OZF playoffs use the Page Playoff system, in which the top two teams play each other(upper page playoffs) and the bottom two play each other(lower page playoffs). The winner of the upper page playoffs graduates to the grand final, whilst the loser plays the winner of the lower page playoffs in the semi-final. The winner of the semi-final then plays the winner of the upper page playoffs in the grand final.
ozfortress 6v6 makes use of a custom whitelist.
Further information is available at the official ozfortress website.
Previous OZF Champions[edit]
| Year | Season | Premier | High | Intermediate | Main | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 (Mar-Jun) | OZF 15 | Jasmine Tea | The Resurrected 6 | Duksquad | ||
| 2016 (Jul-Sep) | OZF 16 | Jasmine Tea | Intoxicated | Project Mayhem | ||
| 2016 (Sep-Nov) | OZF 17 | The Hardies | Salt Free Gaming. | Yeah | ||
| 2017 (Feb-Apr) | OZF 18 | No Safeword | [ Brave Loyal And Kind ] | WhoopieShare | ||
| 2017 (May-Jun) | OZF 19 | Jasmine Tea | S A D B O Y S | MORTified | ||
| 2017 (Aug-Oct) | OZF 20 | The Sauce | spn 70kg fatty | Starburst-6s | ||
| 2018 (Jan-Apr) | OZF 21 | Y U G I B O Y S | carl libre | Rocket Division | ||
| 2018 (May-Jul) | OZF 22 | Pencil Case | Salt Free Gaming. | HentaiHaven Hunters | ||
| 2018 (Sep-Nov) | OZF 23 | Jasmine Tea | League of Super Evil | The Big Monstrosity | ||
| 2019 (Jan-Apr) | OZF 24 | Coffee Clock | ad hominem attack | Big Lez and The Boys | ||
| 2019 (May-Aug) | OZF 25 | Coffee Clock | DrugLab | Panda Bears | Cool Team Name Pending | |
| 2019 (Sep-Dec) | OZF 26 | Coffee Clock | Winx Club | twig Today at 4:20 PM @everyone im horny | the nutte sac | |
| 2020 (Jan-Apr) | OZF 27 | happy feet | what the fuck am i doing | open veterans | back 2 the bones daycare | |
| 2020 (May-Jul) | OZF 28 | happy feet | braincels2020 | whats our name | fighting dreamers | mork and friends |
| 2020 (Aug-Nov) | OZF 29 | soirée1 | psychology majors | Artix Entertainment | Terrible Tactics | [HK香港人］ |
| 2021 (Jan-Apr) | OZF 30 | soirée1 | ligma | #JUSTICEFORLOGJAM | dm lords | |
| 2021 (May-Jul) | OZF 31 | ALT | House of Cards | sugma | Phee Phi Pho Phum | |
| 2021 (Sep-Dec) | OZF 32 | soirée1 | lawn mowers | God Emperor Seals | Phices | orangutan ganji |
| 2022 (Jan-Apr) | OZF 33 | soirée1 | Flying Spies BLACK | BEWARE OF THE PIPELIN12 | Posse Pounders | |
| 2022 (May-Jul) | OZF 34 | Witness Gaming1 | CURSED | Sharkylin12 | camping | |
| 2022 (Sep-Dec) | OZF 35 | Witness Gaming1 | altombo's kittens | RTBA | take me to snurch | |
| 2023 (Jan-May) | OZF 36 | Witness Gaming1 | bob the digger | 6Sins | The Ferrari Strategists | |
| 2023 (May-Jul) | OZF 37 | xcx1 | fever kids | Insisting on a Phisting | Ownage + 5 | fking hl mains |
| 2023 (Oct-Dec) | OZF 38 | Star Wars1 | Ready Steady Tax Evasion | 6pack | Dysxleia | Talking Tom and Friends |
| 2024 (Feb-Apr) | OZF 39 | LeEsports1 | NewJeans | The Company | taking my gamer medicine (games) | Noob Pug Avengers |
1 The team names marked are fundamentally the same team under multiple aliases.
OZHL: the ozfortress Highlander Seasonal League[edit]
2022 - Present
Overview[edit]
The ozfortress Highlander Seasonal League is a newer league designed for Highlander competition. OZHL functions much in the same way as OZF, but with a map pool, ruleset and weapon banlist suited to the Highlander gamemode. The league made its debut in mid 2022 after the Respawn League was dissolved into ozfortress. Staff previously overseeing RSL competitions were installed as ozfortress' new Highlander staff. Similarly, many teams such as red pandas and rascals that had formerly played in the Respawn League (and UGC) have since competed in OZHL.
Ozfortress has been predominantly a 6v6 platform for the vast majority of its lifetime. Previously, ozfortress hosted a now long-defunct ladder competition; the Ozfortress Highlander League (ozhl) which had its last title in 2014. This previous competition was run in much the same way as the late ozfl.
Format[edit]
As stated earlier, the ozfortress Highlander Seasonal League is run very similarly to the ozfortress Sixes Seasonal League. The season is run over 8 weeks, with the first five allocated to the regular season and three for playoffs. OZHL uses a less restrictive whitelist than ozfortress Sixes.
Further information is available at the official ozfortress website.
Previous OZHL Champions[edit]
| Year | Season | Premier | Intermediate | Main | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 (May-Aug) | OZHL 1 | red pandas | flamter | Patent Pending | |
| 2022 (Sep-Dec) | OZHL 2 | red pandas | Patent Pending | ||
| 2023 (Feb-Apr) | OZHL 3 | red pandas | Patent Pending | fuck it we brawl | |
| 2023 (Jun-Aug) | OZHL 4 | Musos Deluxe | GARDEN OF EDEN APPLE PICKERS' UNION | Significant Otter | Boykissers |
| 2023 (Oct-Dec) | OZHL 5 | Musos Deluxe | Team Wahoo! | goblin deez | |
| 2024 (Feb-Apr) | OZHL 6 | Musos Deluxe | WE ARE THE WORLD 39 FOR OPEN |
Minor Leagues and Competitions[edit]
This section describes more casual or offseason events run by ozfortress.
Ultiduo[edit]
2007 - Present
ozfortress Ultiduo is an annual single-elimination competition run during the offseason between ozfortress' seasonal premier competition - in the past the OWL league and currently the OZF league. For the majority of its lifetime, Ultiduo has been an open tournament run over either a period of a few days or a few hours. Most recently, (Ultiduo 17) the tournament has been run over 3 hours and 2 divisions.
The ozfortress Ultiduo competition is the oldest still-running Team Fortress 2 competition in the Oceanic scene, having been played for over 16 years as of 2024, with its origins lying as far back as the 27th of December, 2007. [2]
Previous Ultiduo Champions[edit]
| Year | Season | Winner (Soldier/Medic) | Runner-up (Soldier/Medic) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Ultiduo 1 | sinistar/bowt | wackety/iori |
| 2008 | Ultiduo 2 | nesk/bowt | vision/nerfed |
| 2008 | Ultiduo 3 | komplex/tinfed | nesk/bowt |
| 2009 | Ultiduo 4 | lottic/aze | wackety/nomey |
| 2010 | Ultiduo 5 | lottic/yuri | yuki/bonobo |
| 2011 | Ultiduo 6 | yuki/bonobo | lottic/yuri |
| 2012 | Ultiduo 7 | yuki/bonobo | krollic/Avril |
| 2013 | Ultiduo 8 | yuki/No Mercy | Raiin/feresar |
| 2014 | Ultiduo 9 | yuki/bonobo | Daveii/Mattr and ayR |
| 2015 | Ultiduo 10 | Jersh/Sam. | eps/termo |
| 2017 | Ultiduo 11 | krollic/Sam. | HERTZ/Remo |
| 2018 | Ultiduo 12 | krollic/Sam. | silvo/ceekay |
| 2019 | Ultiduo 13 | krollic/arnold | Doge.exe/v4na |
| 2020 | Ultiduo 14 | krollic/arnold | silvo/ceekay |
| 2021 | Ultiduo 15 | silvo/ceekay | down/essence |
| 2022 | Ultiduo 16 | krollic/jd | Donn/Precious. |
| 2023 | Ultiduo 17 | krollic/arnold | turris/jd |
BBall[edit]
2023 - Present
BBall is a very recent addition to ozfortress' competitions run in much the same way as ozfortress Ultiduo. ozfortress BBall is a single-elimination competition run across the course of several hours.
Previous BBall Champions[edit]
| Year | Season | Winner | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | BBall 1 | robor/Doge.exe | LiquidAlchemy/HUNGRY4EGGS |
MSNC: A Midsummer Night's Cup[edit]
2017 - Present
A Midsummer Night's Cup are a series of single-night 6v6 competitions that were run twice a summer from 2017 through to 2019. From 2020 however, MSNC have been run at irregular intervals with the recent addition of a MSNC Highlander league. Teams are split into three divisions - either Premier, Intermediate and Open or Divisions 1 through 3. The focus for these cups is to provide ozfortress players with a more casual laid-back experience in between seasons. Hence, many MSNC tournaments have seen looser team compositions and more extensive offclassing than the seasonal leagues.
Previous MSNC Premier Champions[edit]
| Season | Winner |
|---|---|
| MSNC 2017 #1 | mt |
| MSNC 2017 #2 | nt |
| MSNC 2018 #1 | Jazz Men |
| MSNC 2018 #2 | Y U G I B O Y S |
| MSNC 2019 #1 | Mad Men |
| MSNC 2019 #2 | Lollipop |
| MSNC 2020 | :gorilla: |
| MSNC Sixes 2023 | Witness Gaming |
| MSNC Highlander 2023 | red pandas |
Previous Leagues and Competitions[edit]
This section covers currently inactive ozfortress leagues or competitions. This includes those that have been formally concluded and those that may return in future years.
ozfl: the ozfortress league[edit]
2008 - 2015
The ozfortress league was a continuous 6v6 ladder competition open to teams of all skill levels. Match scheduling was determined by a team's win/loss streak, which provided them with the opportunity to face opponents at other skill levels, or opponents they would otherwise never meet in regular scrimmage. This league was seen as a proving ground for new maps designed for the competitive community, and was paired with a less restrictive whitelist. ozfl was largely regarded as a pathway into ozfortress' previous premier competition, the ozfortress winter league (OWL) series.
The ozfortress league was the longest running Team Fortress competition in the Oceanic scene, with its origins lying as far back as November 2002 with Team Fortress Classic.[3] The first signups for the Team Fortress 2 edition of the ozfortress league were announced on the 7th of May 2008 and began with an 8v8 format with random critical hits.[4] The second round of matches saw a new 6v6 format being run alongside 8v8 and random crits disabled, before 8v8 was phased out entirely in March of the following year.[5]
The ozfortress league ran a total of 127 rounds of Team Fortress 2 matches spanning nearly 7 years, with the final game being played on the 20th of March, 2015. Team Immunity accounted for 55 of the titles won, thus winning over 40% of ozfortress league titles.[6]
ozfc: the ozfortress cup[edit]
2008 - 2013
The ozfortress cup was a double elimination exhibition competition. The cup had 16 slots, 12 of which were occupied by the top 12 teams of the year. The remaining 4 slots were claimed as eight 'wildcards' who competed with each other in a qualifier format.
The ozfortress cup was the first non-Ultiduo ozfortress Team Fortress 2 competition to be run. The first OZFC began on the 10th of January, 2008 in an 8v8 format.[7]
Previous ozfc Champions[edit]
| Season | Winner |
|---|---|
| OZFC 1 | MAD DOGZ |
| OZFC 2 | Team Immunity |
| OZFC 3 | Team Immunity |
OWL: the ozfortress Winter League[edit]
2009 - 2015
The ozfortress winter league was the initial premier competition series run by ozfortress. It was a seasonal, round-robin 6v6 invitational that ran approximately twice a year. Teams were split into skill based divisions, from Division 1 or Premier down to Division 6. However, the number of divisions often varied between seasons depending on the number of teams registered. A typical competition ran over 10 weeks of matches and teams were invited to apply for selection before the competition began.
OWL was later phased out in favour of the ozfortress seasonal league following OWL 14 in early 2016. Recently however, the ozfortress Winter League has made a comeback in the form of OWL 2021, running alongside the existing OZF seasonal league.
Previous OWL Champions[edit]
| Year | Season | Premier | Division 2 | Division 3 | Division 4 | Division 5 | Division 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | OWL 1 | pretty good | basement virginz | fray`R | proximity | ||
| 2010 | OWL 2 | Team Immunity | we-r | Walken | Blitz | ||
| 2010 | OWL 3 | Team Immunity | foxy | ALIVe | Ju1cy | ||
| 2010 | OWL 4 | Team Immunity | vivid Reprisal | rofls | pz | ||
| 2011 | OWL 5 | Team Immunity | #fever | Ћ | GC™ | ||
| 2011 | OWL 6 | Team Immunity | SYF | Untitled | We Few | ||
| 2012 | OWL 7 | Team Immunity | sSb | World Underground | dialUp | One Night Stand | Team Casualty |
| 2012 | OWL 8 | Team Immunity | Trigger Happy | Afflicted Above | One Night Stand | Total Badass Crumpets | Veni Vidi Vici |
| 2013 | OWL 9 | Team Immunity | Crack Clan | Retro 6 | ONS Friends Friendship Squad | defuncT | |
| 2013 | OWL 10 | Team Immunity | danger 5 + 1 | m8s | Love 'n' Rockets | Ripe Strategy | The Goose is Loose |
| 2014 | OWL 11 | Team Immunity | Mainlander Gaming Experience | Big Mistake | Too Young to Drink | SACRED.tf | |
| 2014 | OWL 12 | Jasmine | Space Cadets | Multiplex | Boats Can't Fly | Happy Campers | |
| 2015 | OWL 13 | Cash Money | :smug: | u ¢ me | Professional Ricecookers | ||
| 2015 | OWL 14 | Team Impunity | Multiplex | Prem Dreams | auRa | TR6 |
C4C: Capping for a Cause[edit]
2010 - ~2012-13
Capping for a Cause (stylised as Capping 4 a Cause, or C4C) was a 16 team open double-elimination competition run three times from 2010 to 2012. C4C aimed to raise funds for a named charity. Teams were asked to 'buy' their seeding by donating to the charity, where the highest seeds were given to the highest donating teams, providing them with a scheduling advantage throughout the tournament. Over the three iterations of C4C, over $22,000 AUD was raised for charities. These included the Australian Cancer Research Foundation, BeyondBlue and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.
Previous C4C Champions[edit]
| Season | Winner |
|---|---|
| C4C | Team Immunity |
| C4C2 | Team Immunity |
| C4C3 | Team Immunity |
Where to Play[edit]
The official ozfortress Discord is the best place to advertise LFT or LFP. The Discord also provides access to numerous player-run PUG servers of various skill levels and formats.
For Oceanic players new to competitive, the following Discord pick-up-game servers provide an introduction to the major formats. In order to play in these servers, it is required to link your steam account to the ozfortress website.
6v6[edit]
Highlander[edit]
Streams[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ ozfortress Head Administrator Changes
- ↑ Wayback Machine Archive: SINISTAR and BOWT are crowned the 1st ozf Ultimate Duo!
- ↑ Wayback Machine Archive: OZFL - Season 1 commenced!
- ↑ Wayback Machine Archive: ozfortress Team Fortress 2 League
- ↑ Wayback Machine Archive: ozfortress says good-bye to 8v8
- ↑ Wayback Machine Archive: ozfortress league title history
- ↑ Wayback Machine Archive: ozfc1 - draw and points
| ozfortress competitions | |
| Winter League | OWL 1 · OWL 2 · OWL 3 · OWL 4 · OWL 5 · OWL 6 · OWL 7 · OWL 8 · OWL 9 · OWL 10 · OWL 11 · OWL 12 · OWL 13 · OWL 14 |
| ozfortress Seasonal League | OZF 15 · OZF 16 · OZF 17 · OZF 18 · OZF 19 · OZF 20 · OZF 21 · OZF 22 · OZF 23 · OZF 24 · OZF 25 · OZF 26 · OZF 27 · OZF 28 · OZF 29 · OZF 30 · OZF 31 · OZF 32 · OZF 33 · OZF 34 · OZF 35 · OZF 36 |
| ozfortress Highlander Seasonal League | OZHL 1 · OZHL 2 · OZHL 3 |
| Ultiduo Cups | Ultiduo 1 · Ultiduo 2 · Ultiduo 3 · Ultiduo 4 · Ultiduo 5 · Ultiduo 6 · Ultiduo 7 · Ultiduo 8 · Ultiduo 9 · Ultiduo 10 · Ultiduo 11 · Ultiduo 12 · Ultiduo 13 · Ultiduo 14 · Ultiduo 15 · Ultiduo 16 |
| Summer Cups | Summer Cup 2016 · A Midsummer Night's Cup 2017: December · A Midsummer Night's Cup 2017: January |
| Popular topics | |
| General | Getting started · Glossary of terms |
| Formats | 6v6 · Highlander · Prolander · 4v4 · Ultiduo · BBall · MGE |
| Customization | Configs · Custom HUDs · Third-party programs |
| Mechanics | Movement · Rollouts · ÜberCharge · Calling · Pushes |
| Settings | Useful console commands · Servers |
| Active Competitions |  ETF2L ·  RGL ·  ozfortress ·  UGC ·  FBTF · Vanilla Fortress ·  AsiaFortress · ATF2L · Insomnia Gaming Festival · LAN events
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| Past Competitions | Respawn League · Brasil Fortress · TFCL · ESEA · TFCups · CEVO · Wireplay · The Round Robin · IGL · ESA · NZFortress |
| Organizations | BlackOut TV · CappingTV · EssentialsTF · EVL TV · eXtv · Just Play! · MyGamingEdge · TeamFortressTV · TFLIVE · VanillaTV |
