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{{NewInfobox League
| image = Ozfortress_logo.png
| fullname = ozfortress
| founder = {{flag|au}} mercury <br> {{flag|au}} tempest
| admin = {{flag|aunz}} [https://ozfortress.com/users/491 core] <ref>[https://ozfortress.com/forums/threads/779 ozfortress Head Administrator Changes]</ref>
| formats = [[6v6]], [[Highlander]], [[Ultiduo]]
| area = {{flag|aunz}} Oceania
| current = [[ozfortress_Season_{{Current Seasons | ozf6s}}|Season {{Current Seasons | ozf6s}}]] ([[6v6]]) <br>
[[ozfortress_Highlander_Season_{{Current Seasons | ozhl}}|Season {{Current Seasons | ozhl}}]] ([[Highlander]])
| website = http://ozfortress.com/
| created = 2001
| twitter = ozfortress
| youtube = 
| discord = dyudcxB
| facebook = ozfortress
| steam = 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 the southern hemisphere.

==History==
ozfortress was established in 2001 by TFC players {{flag|au}} ''mercury'' and {{flag|au}} ''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 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 [[Ozfortress_Season_16|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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://ozfortress.com Wayback Machine Archive].

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[[File:OZlogo2002.png|thumb|500px|ozfortress website logo, circa 2002.]]
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[[File:Ozfortforums.png|thumb|500px|Homepage of ozfortress.com, circa 2010.]]
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==Current Leagues and Competitions==
===OZF: the ozfortress Sixes Seasonal League===
====Overview====
[[File:OZF27.png|thumb|450px|Banner for ozfortress Sixes Season 27, played throughout early 2020.]]
Announced on the 24th February, 2016, the ozfortress Sixes Seasonal League is the successor to the organization's previous [[Ozfortress#OWL:_the_ozfortress_Winter_League|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 [[Glossary#Sandbagging|sandbagging]] and to provide a middle ground between Open and Intermediate.

====Format====
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 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 [https://whitelist.tf/ozfortress_6v6_s36 a custom whitelist]. <br>
Further information is available at the [https://docs.ozfortress.com/rules/sixes official ozfortress website].

===Previous OZF Champions===
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding=2 style="width: 80%; text-align: center;"
|-
! width="100px" | Year
! Season
! width="150px" | Premier
! High
! Intermediate
! Main
! Open
|-
| 2016 ''(Mar-Jun)''
| [[OZF 15]]
| [[Jasmine Tea]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| The Resurrected 6
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Duksquad
|-
|-
| 2016 ''(Jul-Sep)''
| [[Ozfortress_Season_16|OZF 16]]
| [[Jasmine Tea]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Intoxicated
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Project Mayhem
|-
|-
| 2016 ''(Sep-Nov)''
| [[Ozfortress_Season_17|OZF 17]]
| [[The Hardies]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Salt Free Gaming.
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Yeah
|-
|-
| 2017 ''(Feb-Apr)''
| [[Ozfortress_Season_18|OZF 18]]
| [[No Safeword]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| [ Brave Loyal And Kind ]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| WhoopieShare
|-
|-
| 2017 ''(May-Jun)''
| [[Ozfortress_Season_19|OZF 19]]
| [[Jasmine Tea]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| S A D B O Y S
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| MORTified
|-
|-
| 2017 ''(Aug-Oct)''
| [[Ozfortress_Season_20|OZF 20]]
| [[The Sauce]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| spn 70kg fatty
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Starburst-6s
|-
|-
| 2018 ''(Jan-Apr)''
| [[Ozfortress_Season_21|OZF 21]]
| [[Y U G I B O Y S]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| carl libre
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Rocket Division
|-
|-
| 2018 ''(May-Jul)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_22|OZF 22]]
|[[Pencil Case]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Salt Free Gaming.
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| HentaiHaven Hunters
|-
|-
| 2018 ''(Sep-Nov)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_23|OZF 23]]
|[[Jasmine Tea]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| League of Super Evil
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| The Big Monstrosity
|-
|-
| 2019 ''(Jan-Apr)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_24|OZF 24]]
|[[Coffee Clock]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| ad hominem attack
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Big Lez and The Boys
|-
|-
| 2019 ''(May-Aug)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_25|OZF 25]]
|[[Coffee Clock]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| DrugLab
| Panda Bears
| Cool Team Name Pending
|-
|-
| 2019 ''(Sep-Dec)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_26|OZF 26]]
|[[Coffee Clock]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Winx Club
| twig Today at 4:20 PM @everyone im horny
| the nutte sac
|-
|-
| 2020 ''(Jan-Apr)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_27|OZF 27]]
|[[happy feet]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| what the fuck am i doing
| open veterans	
| back 2 the bones daycare
|-
|-
| 2020 ''(May-Jul)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_28|OZF 28]]
|[[happy feet]]
| braincels2020	
| whats our name
| fighting dreamers
| mork and friends	
|-
|-
| 2020 ''(Aug-Nov)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_29|OZF 29]]
|[[soirée]]
| psychology majors	
| Artix Entertainment	
| Terrible Tactics	
| [HK香港人］
|-
|-
| 2021 ''(Jan-Apr)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_30|OZF 30]]
|[[soirée]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| ligma	
| #JUSTICEFORLOGJAM
| dm lords
|-
|-
| 2021 ''(May-Jul)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_31|OZF 31]]
|[[ALT]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| House of Cards
| sugma	
| Phee Phi Pho Phum
|-
|-
| 2021 ''(Sep-Dec)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_32|OZF 32]]
|[[soirée]]
| lawn mowers	
| God Emperor Seals
| Phices
| orangutan ganji
|-
|-
| 2022 ''(Jan-Apr)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_33|OZF 33]]
|[[soirée]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Flying Spies BLACK	
| BEWARE OF THE PIPELIN12
| Posse Pounders	
|-
|-
| 2022 ''(May-Jul)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_34|OZF 34]]
|[[Witness Gaming AU|Witness Gaming]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| CURSED	
| Sharkylin12	
| camping	
|-
|-
| 2022 ''(Sep-Dec)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_35|OZF 35]]
|[[Witness Gaming AU|Witness Gaming]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| altombo's kittens
| RTBA	
| take me to snurch	
|-
|-
| 2023 ''(Jan-May)''
|[[Ozfortress_Season_36|OZF 36]]
|[[Witness Gaming AU|Witness Gaming]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| bob the digger
| 6Sins
| The Ferrari Strategists 
|}

===OZHL: the ozfortress Highlander Seasonal League===
====Overview====
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====
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. Other than this change in length, OZHL is run identically to [[ozfortress#OZF: the ozfortress Sixes Seasonal League|OZF]].

Further information is available at the [https://docs.ozfortress.com/rules/highlander official ozfortress website].

===Previous OZHL Premier Champions===
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding=2 style="width: 80%; text-align: center;"
|-
! Year
! Season
! Premier
! Intermediate
! Main
! Open
|-
| 2022 ''(May-Aug)''
| [[Ozfortress_Highlander_Season_1|OZHL 1]]
| [[red pandas]]
| flamter
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Patent Pending
|-
| 2022 ''(Sep-Dec)''
| [[Ozfortress_Highlander_Season_2|OZHL 2]]
| [[red pandas]]
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| Patent Pending
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
|-
| 2023 ''(Feb-Apr)''
| [[Ozfortress_Highlander_Season_3|OZHL 3]]
| [[red pandas]]
| Patent Pending
| style="background-color:#bababa;" |
| fuck it we brawl	
|}

===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 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 nearly 16 years, with its origins lying as far back as the 27th of December, 2007. <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071230221228/http://ozfortress.com/showthread.php?t=25002 Wayback Machine Archive: SINISTAR and BOWT are crowned the 1st ozf Ultimate Duo!]</ref>

===Previous Ultiduo Champions===
[[File:Ozultiduo1.jpg|thumb|600px|Banner for the debut tournament for ozfortress Ultiduo. This season was played before the release of the Ubersaw or the Crusader's Crossbow!]]
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding=2 style="width: 37%; text-align: center;"
|-
! Year
! width="100px" | 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.
|-
| 2022
| '''Ultiduo 16'''
| '''krollic/arnold'''
| turris/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===
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding=2 style="width: 30%; text-align: center;"
|-
! Season
!  Winner
|-
| [[Ozfortress: A Midsummer Night's Cup 2017|MSNC 2017 #1]]
| mt
|-
| [[Ozfortress: A Midsummer Night's Cup 2017|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 AU|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''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20021206100839/http://ozfl.ozfortress.com/ Wayback Machine Archive: OZFL - Season 1 commenced!]</ref> 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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080621190542/http://ozfortress.com/showthread.php?t=26403 Wayback Machine Archive: ozfortress Team Fortress 2 League]</ref> 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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090316070728/http://ozfortress.com:80/ Wayback Machine Archive: ozfortress says good-bye to 8v8]</ref>

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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190109053433/http://www.ozfortress.com/showthread.php?t=28089 Wayback Machine Archive: ozfortress league title history]</ref>

===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 ozfortress ''Team Fortress 2'' competition to be run. The first OZFC began on the 10th of January, 2008 in an 8v8 format.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080118012240/http://ozfortress.com/showthread.php?t=25201 Wayback Machine Archive: ozfc1 - draw and points]</ref>

===Previous ozfc Champions===
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding=2 style="width: 30%; text-align: center;"
|-
! 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===
[[File:Owl 14.png|thumb|600px|The banner for the final OWL season before the transfer to OZF. OWL 14 came to a close in September of 2015.]]
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding=2 style="width: 30%; text-align: center;"
|-
! 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===
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding=2 style="width: 30%; text-align: center;"
|-
! Season
! Winner
|-
| C4C
| [[Team Immunity]]
|-
| C4C2
| [[Team Immunity]]
|-
| C4C3
| [[Team Immunity]]
|}

==Where to Play==
The official [https://discord.gg/dyudcxB ozfortress Discord] is the best place to advertise [[Glossary#LFT|LFT or LFP]]. The Discord also provides access to numerous player-run [[Glossary#PUG.2C_Pickup|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 [https://ozfortress.com ozfortress website].

====6v6====
* {{flag|au}} [https://discord.gg/EAEysgp OCE Icebreaker]
* {{flag|au}} [https://discord.gg/GfzhwaDct9 noob pugs]

====Highlander====
* {{flag|au}} [https://discord.gg/hPUecg9thy FROGpugs AU/NZ]

== Streams ==
* {{flag|au}} [http://twitch.tv/bearcaststf2 BearCastsTF2]
* {{flag|us}} [http://twitch.tv/kritzkast KritzKast]
* {{flag|au}} [http://twitch.tv/CappingTV CappingTV]
* {{flag|au}} [http://www.twitch.tv/quid___ quid]

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