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Basic Information
Full name:
ozfortress
Founder:
Australia mercury
Australia tempest
Head Admin:
Current Season:
Links
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History
Created:
2001

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 over numerous competitions. ozfortress is considered to host the highest level of competitive Team Fortress 2 play in the southern hemisphere.

History

ozfortress was established in 2001 by TFC players Australia mercury and Australia tempest to cater for the competitive Team Fortress Classic community and hosted a variety of TFC tournaments up until the early 2010s before the game was phased out entirely.

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 ozfortress forums can be accessed through the Wayback Machine Archive.

ozfortress website logo, circa 2002.
Homepage of ozfortress.com, circa 2010.

Current Leagues and Competitions

OZF: the ozfortress Seasonal League

Announced on the 24th February, 2016, the ozfortress 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. The tier debuted for OZF 25.

Previous OZF Premier Champions

Banner for ozfortress Sixes Season 27, played throughout early 2020.
Year Season Winner
2016 (Mar-Jun) OZF 15 Jasmine Tea
2016 (Jul-Sep) OZF 16 Jasmine Tea
2016 (Sep-Nov) OZF 17 The Hardies
2017 (Feb-Apr) OZF 18 No Safeword
2017 (May-Jun) OZF 19 Jasmine Tea
2017 (Aug-Oct) OZF 20 The Sauce
2018 (Jan-Apr) OZF 21 Y U G I B O Y S
2018 (May-Jul) OZF 22 Pencil Case
2018 (Sep-Nov) OZF 23 Jasmine Tea
2019 (Jan-Apr) OZF 24 Coffee Clock
2019 (May-Aug) OZF 25 Coffee Clock
2019 (Sep-Dec) OZF 26 Coffee Clock
2020 (Jan-Apr) OZF 27 happy feet
2020 (May-Jul) OZF 28 happy feet
2020 (Aug-Nov) OZF 29 soirée
2021 (Jan-Apr) OZF 30 soirée
2021 (May-Jul) OZF 31 ALT
2021 (Sep-Dec) OZF 32 soirée
2022 (Jan-Apr) OZF 33 soirée
2022 (May-Jul) OZF 34 Witness Gaming
2022 (Sep-Dec) OZF 35 Witness Gaming
2023 (Jan-Apr) OZF 36 Witness Gaming

OZHL: the ozfortress Highlander Seasonal League

The ozfortress highlander league is a newer seasonal 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, following on from ozfortress' previous and 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. In the intervening years, Oceanic Highlander tournaments were hosted by UGC and the Respawn League.

Previous OZHL Premier Champions

Year Season Winner
2022 (May-Aug) OZHL 1 red pandas
2022 (Sep-Dec) OZHL 2 red pandas

Ultiduo

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 the period of several hours. Most recently however (Ultiduo 16) the tournament has been run over 3 days and 2 divisions.

The ozfortress Ultiduo competition is the oldest still-running Team Fortress 2 competition in the Oceanic scene, having been played for nearly 16 years, with its origins lying as far back as the 27th of December, 2007. [2]

Previous Ultiduo Champions

Banner for the debut tournament for ozfortress Ultiduo. This season was played before the release of the Ubersaw, Crusader's Crossbow or the Gunboats!
Year Season Winner (Soldier/Medic)
2007 Ultiduo 1 sinistar/bowt
2008 Ultiduo 2 nesk/bowt
2008 Ultiduo 3 komplex/tinfed
2009 Ultiduo 4 lottic/aze
2010 Ultiduo 5 lottic/yuri
2011 Ultiduo 6 yuki/bonobo
2012 Ultiduo 7 yuki/bonobo
2013 Ultiduo 8 yuki/No Mercy
2014 Ultiduo 9 yuki/bonobo
2015 Ultiduo 10 Jersh/Sam.
2017 Ultiduo 11 krollic/Sam.
2018 Ultiduo 12 krollic/Sam.
2019 Ultiduo 13 krollic/arnold
2020 Ultiduo 14 krollic/arnold
2021 Ultiduo 15 silvo/ceekay
2022 Ultiduo 16 krollic/jd

MSNC: A Midsummer Night's Cup

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

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

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

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

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 Oceanic 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

Season Winner
OZFC 1 MAD DOGZ
OZFC 2 Team Immunity
OZFC 3 Team Immunity

OWL: the ozfortress Winter League

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

The banner for the final OWL season before the transfer to OZF. OWL 14 came to a close in September of 2015.
Season Winner
OWL 1 pretty good
OWL 2 Team Immunity
OWL 3 Team Immunity
OWL 4 Team Immunity
OWL 5 Team Immunity
OWL 6 Team Immunity
OWL 7 Team Immunity
OWL 8 Team Immunity
OWL 9 Team Immunity
OWL 10 Team Immunity
OWL 11 Team Immunity
OWL 12 Jasmine
OWL 13 Cash Money
OWL 14 Team Impunity
OWL 2021 Vanquish's Aiming Academy

C4C: Capping for a Cause

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

Season Winner
C4C Team Immunity
C4C2 Team Immunity
C4C3 Team Immunity

Streams

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