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12/2/19 Update

With the addition of Essex (VT), Lexington (MA), Acton-Box (MA), WWP (NJ), Burlington (VT), and Williston (MA), we’re now half full with 15 girls teams and 18 boys teams!

You can submit your bid right here!

An interactive map of where everyone is coming in from is online here.

PVI Uniform Offer from VC Ultimate!

VC Ultimate is proud to be back designing up the sweetest gear in ultimate for Pioneer Valley Invite 2020! To celebrate our second year with PVI, we’re offering our very best deals of the year – up to 35% of on uniform packages! These offers are exclusive to teams competing at PVI 2020.

Package A: $76 
Spot sublimated white + Screen printed dark + Shorts with a #

Package B: $89
Spot sublimated white + Fully sublimated dark + Shorts with a #

Package C: $101
Fully sublimated light and dark + Simple sublimation* shorts

Fun Fact: All VC full sublimated uniforms are made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic?!

Why Go VC?

Reason #1: We are the best product. Period. 
When it comes down to it, we have the best product available. We know that every company out there will be telling you that, but we’ve got the proof to back it up.

Reason #2: We will make sure you look good. Really, really good.
We offer free design services for teams ordering VC uniforms! Submit your design request here!

Reason #3: We let you try it before you buy it.
Free samples are always available. Complete this form and we’ll get you sorted!

Reason #4: Customer service is as important to us as it is to you.
Creating custom apparel is tough and mistakes will happen from time to time… and we promise to fix them. At VC, we believe that it’s how we handle any issues or problems that sets us apart; we won’t let you down.

Reason #5: We are more than an ultimate apparel company.
We give over 15% of our total revenue – no just profit – back to the ultimate community. Learn more about our values and help us support teams, leagues, associations, tournaments and initiatives that promoted inclusivity and Spirit of the Game at every level!

Read more about why we think you should Go VC here and drop us a line any time to get started on your uniform project today!

We’re here to help!

The VC Team
info@vcultimate.com
(416) 588-4154

PVI2020 bids now being accepted!

We are excited to announce that bids are now being accepted for the 7th Annual Pioneer Valley Invitational!

Website: PVInvite.org
Date: May 16th and 17th, 2020
Divisions (# of teams): Youth Girls (24-32), Youth Boys (24-32)
Location: Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA
Cost: $500 (Free if you fly in!)
USAU Sanctioned: Yes
Lined fields: Yes
Guaranteed # of games: 6
Saturday night dinner/dance/trade night: Yes!

Team will be admitted on a rolling basis.

Want to help consult for PVI2020?

Every year we work really, really hard to create an amazing PVI experience for all teams.

We collect lots of feedback, balance a bajillion factors, and try to his a moving target and create an awesome weekend for everyone. We ADORE the challenge!

We have loved what we have created, but we ALWAYS try to make things better each year.

Would you like to help us create the next iteration of the PVI?

Josh is putting together a tourney consultation group of players, coaches, chaperones, friends, and family members that would like to help build the awesome.

Josh plans on bouncing early ideas off of this group and using it as a way to source more and more great ideas from the unreal PVI community.

We’re looking for all sorts of expertise: Scheduling, tourney central management, logistics, media, equity programs… everything. If you want to help make the PVI better, please join!

The group will mainly work via email. There may be a few conference calls. You can contribute as much or as little time as you have.

If this sounds like something you’re up for, please email josh@pvinvite.org.

PVI2019 – Online gear store!

Missed out on picking up some PVI gear? Now’s your chance!

The VC online gear store is now up! Place your orders now — As far as we know the online store will close on May 26th!

Thanks for coming to the 6th annual PVI!

An entire world built around ultimate.

What a place!

From all of the 125+ volunteers that make the PVI happen… thank you for coming out to the Oxbow for a truly magical weekend of awesome!

If possible, please forward this message to all members of your team.

1) We’d like everyone that attended the event — players, coaches, chaperones, spectators — to fill out this short online feedback survey. The information you submit will helps us build an even better event in 2020! We know that filling out feedback surveys can be a drag, but know that the best way for us to improve the event, by far, is to hear from you.

2) Mark your calendars for May 16th and 17th, 2020! That’s when we’ll be holding the 7th annual PVI! The event will be back at the Oxbow!

3) We’d love to see any and all photos and video that you took this weekend. You can email media and links to media to josh@pvinvite.org. You can also send files directly to us using this link.

4) Details regarding lost and found items will be online soon.

5) Please look over the reported game scores. Let me know via email (josh@pvinvite.org) if you see any numbers that aren’t right. At this point I have posted all submitted game scores as well as all spirit results.

6) All spirit scores are now online (XLS: Girls Division, Boys Division) and embedded below. I will be directly emailing each team their written comments in the next few weeks.

[Green means above average for the division and red means below average for the division. Orange means the high score for that column.]

Girls’ Divisions Spirit
Boys’ Divisions Spirit

Thank you again for attending the 6th annual Pioneer Valley Invitational!

See ya’ll on the field!

– Buffy & Josh
josh@pvinvite.org