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Greaver — The battle lines are set, foes become friends, neighbours become allies. The competition where you greatness is dependent on where you rest your head. State of Origin 2 allows you to play for state pride, without all the pretentious bullshit of inner clan politics. Ignore this competition at your peril, it’s serious, deadly serious.

The first match in the OZFortress State of Origin 2 competition will see New Zealands team take on Southern Australias team in what should prove to be an epic match up

New Zealand is fielding a lot of semi retired players but they have plenty of experience between them so it will be interesting to see how they match up against the power house that is the SA team.

This match will be played in two 30 minute halves on cp_badlands so both teams will be well versed in the map so we should see some exciting action!

Join us in the STV and mumble (220.233.151.20:64738) or via the stream with your Gamestah casters for tonight, Greaver, Ivo and Gee!

wm — LOTS going on in Australia at the moment…

ozfortress owl6 – our main league is coming to a close for yet another great season. Grand Final games are happening this week with Div4 being played Monday night (in 2nd map this very minute), Div3 Tuesday night, Div1 will be Wednesday 12:30cest (21.30 Australian EST, 06.30 North American EDT) and Div2 is scheduled for Thursday night.

As part of our on going efforts to beat people over the head with Team Fortress 2 until they like it, we will be featuring the work of VanillaTF2′s finest authors over on that oracle of premier eSports coverage I call home, Cadred.  Indian workhorse Abhorrence has put together a delightful interview with none other than Austrialia’s very own scout sensation, Sheep, which you can read in full over on Cadred.

For now, let me tease you a little with a succulent choice cut from the interview as I work your mind in to a frenzy until you just can’t take it anymore, clicking link with a groan of exasperation and ecstasy.  You want it, you need it; give in to your most basic desires and read on…

bonez has finished the owl4 plays of the series video just in time for owl5 to kick off in the coming weeks. Alot of the submitted plays were either drawn out plays or just not frag video worthy so bonez opted for a shorter, fast paced film that will get almost anyone keen for next season

can also be streamed here
and downloaded here

Enjoy!
bonez

Here is the latest frag vid from Australia – Bunnies Grand Adventure: Leaving the Div 2 Warren. This video features the “bunnies” clan (full team sporting sam & max hats!), and was made by noser. Bunnies didn’t have a particularly great owl season , but when you consider they finished mid division 2 the previous season then they held their own.

This frag vid shows off their best plays/frags throughout the season and is combined with some nice editing to overall give a nice polished package. Enjoy!

- valk

Well, here’s my video for the Ozfortress State of Origin competition.

Don’t want to talk too much about it. Was severely limited with the amount of demos i had to work with. Only had 2 STV’s out of 6 maps and only 3 POV’s out of 7 Victorian players.

Pretty much all footage was taken from the 2 State of Origin Grand Finals.

Original Video/Audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6O_0_5Mld8

Shoutouts to valk and all the admins for organising the successful competition, The Victorious Victorian team, Warlock and Gee for their POVs.

Enjoy

- Son of Dad

Clan -A- yuki, bonobo, vic, aporia, bowt, sheep, subtitled

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br0 CB, rep, dummy, Yz50, mesr, ducky

Ozfortress owl4 Round6

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TIME

• Sunday November 7th
• 10:00 cet
• 04:00 est (na)
• 18:00 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• No cast information available

SOURCETV

• 210.50.4.30:27035

Who will win this match?

• Clan -A- (55%, 54 Votes)
  
• br0 (43%, 43 Votes)
  
• Tie (2%, 2 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 99

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MAPSSCORE

DEMO

VIDEO

cp_gullywash5-1

koth_viaduct3-0

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It’s on! After br0 being in the Australian scene for over 2 months now, they will finally be up against Australia’s best team over the last year. rewound beat br0 pretty convincingly, but this is a different week with different maps – unfortunately with the same pings. Unfortunately these pings have proven to be an inconvenience for the USA guys.. maybe we will see an exhibition match following owl4 with home/away rounds to balance out the ping, or maybe we will see it played on a japanese server like we did in TFC’s Australia vs USA where both teams will ping ~150-200 (hint, hint)

This match however will be an awesome watch for another reason other than the lineups – viaduct! This is a map alot of teams here in Australia have been eliminating purely out of a lack of understanding on how to play it. Both these teams know this map and with br0 having the obvious ping advantage who knows what could happen.

The second map is gullywash, which br0 won against fray`V in convincing form with the map being alot more popular overseas than it is here – again, people don’t know how to play it here in Australia.

Ultiduo, the competition that pits medic and soldier combos against each other in a knockout competition is returning to ozfortress and could be looked at by  European admins for a “fun” competition along the same lines as the highlander comp.

Ultiduo is a fun competition that spawned from ozfortress’s successful Ultimate Soldier competition created for Team Fortress Classic. The tournament is designed to test the team work, strategy and precision of the best soldier/medic combo teams in the pacific. The stress and mental challenge involved in this tournament is second to none, and is not for the faint hearted.

ozfortress has successfully run four TF2 Ultiduo competitions over the past three years with each iteration bringing new challengers, new rules and even a new map, as we saw in Ultiduo4.

With a new map, format and automated irc bot, this edition of Ultiduo is expected to attract both veterans and newcomers to the tournament.

Stay tuned for more information regarding the competition, Ultiduo5 is just around the corner!

Clan -A- sheep, Cruger, Bowt, bonobo, aporia, Yuki

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rewound Feresar, Prime, grey, Gibbo, jameh, Vic

Ozfortress owl3 grand final

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TIME

• Sunday August 15th
• 13:30 cest
• 07:30 edt (na)
• 21:30 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• Gamestah

SOURCETV

• 210.50.4.53:27020

Who will win this match?

• Clan -A- (74%, 46 Votes)
  
• rewound (23%, 14 Votes)
  
• Tie (3%, 2 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 62

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MAPSSCORE

DEMO

VIDEO

cp_granary5-0

cp_badlands5-3

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After a hard fought 15 minute round with we-r, -A- hit their grove and showed why they are the #1 clan in the Oceania region. They showed pure dominance over we-r heading into this grand final re-re-re-match vs rewound. The two have faced off in the last 3 big competition finals (csm2, owl2, c4c) with -A- taking the last 2 recent matches.

rewound will need to hit a new level if they are to threaten -A- after beating kings in 2 maps this week. During that match they showed both how good they can be and also how messy they have been vs -A- in the past: lost to -A- 5-1, 5-2 C4C grand final.

As always, it should be a good game to tune into on the standard granlands maps. rewound will definitely put up a better fight than we-r and if the rumours are true and rewound have been far more active – who knows what upset could occur?

Capping for a Cause: An Australian Tournament aimed at Cancer Awareness

Update: -A- wins (granary 5-1, badlands 5-2). Congrats!

>>>Stv demoes

8 weeks ago we started a 2 division, double elimination tournament with the pure aim of raising money to fight cancer. It came about on the back of one of our local players was diagnosed with a tumor, and her friends approaching us admins to come up with a tournament for cancer awareness.

Teams were asked to “buy their seed” with the higher donations granting them easier paths through the competition. This allowed lower tier clans to come up with funds to boost their seed, and consequently their chances of winning. Each cap out gave each clan 1 ticket and prizes will be drawn in a raffle format at the conclusion of the tournament – once again giving lower tier clans more motivation to enter.

Along the way ozfortress.com donated $1 per cap out per match, certain players gave $10 per cap out for New Zealand teams only to give them some country pride! Now as we approach the Grand Final for each division, we have raised over $5500 so far and will hopefully crack the $6000 mark over the next week!

How? Well tonight is the Division 1 Grand Final between -A- and rewound, and for every spectator that joins, a community member (DaN) will be donating $1 to the cause. Whatever the spectator count peaks at, will be the donation amount. So tune in tonight @ Sunday, 13 June 2010 at 1:00:00 PM (UTC+2 hours CEST) and help fight cancer!

STV1: 210.50.4.30:27035
STV2: 210.50.4.53:27015
STV3: 210.50.4.53:27020
STV4: 210.50.4.54:27025
cp_badlands, cp_granary, cp_gravelpit (if needed)

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While us Euroes work hard to get money for tournaments, the Aussies are working hard to give it! Big thanks to Valk for his contribution! (Could someone offer an explanation of the time format there? )

Update, Valk wrote this on the ETF2L forums:

Australia have taken down New Zealand 2-0, with Australia proving their strength keeping the the largly retired New Zealand team to just 2 caps over 2 maps. Big thankyou to all the players from both teams, the shoutcasters from gamestah.com, siege and bladez getting the STV’s sorted, wug for rounding up a fantastic nz team, and to all 500+ spectators!

cp_granary: 5-0 AUS
cp_badlands: 5-2 AUS

Valk contributed us with this reminder about the game tomorrow. So, if you aren’t already dreaming TF2, here’s your chance at catching up right outta bed!

Australia vs New Zealand, noon tomorrow!

Tomorrow night @ 8:00pm Australian EST (Sydney) (if we’re correct, this = 12.00cet), Australia will take on New Zealand in their first ever 6v6 clash. The Australian Team will contain the stars from ozfortress.com’s winter league series: 2 while the New Zealand Team will be a mixture of old and new as retired ysw players guest star for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

iPGN will be putting up 3 STV’s for the match:

• STV#1 210.50.4.30:27035
• STV#2 210.50.4.53:27015
• STV#3 210.50.4.53:27020

Ofcourse, such a clash will take place on the core TF2 maps:

• cp_granary
• cp_badlands
• cp_gravelpit (if needed)

The last time these two countries clashed was in the 8s version of the game, with NZ taking the victory. Since then alot has changed…

Can Australia take back the title?
Or will New Zealand claim another trans-tasman victory?

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