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.

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.

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.

Here’s what was left behind!

Please contact Lee (lee@technologyventuresinc.com) if you’d like to make a claim.

(Click the link above or the image below to view the full album of all items in the Lost & Found. There are a bunch.)

Good morning everyone!

Here’s to another amazing day of ultimate!

Please remember to drive SUPER slow on Island Pond Road!

Please make sure you know the schedule. Let us know now if you have any questions.

There is no check in this morning. Go straight to your games

Please make sure your return your team box bin. Make sure it’s clean!

Please make sure you turn in your Sunday spirit score sheet to tournament central immediately after your last game is done today. Please make sure you:

• Fully identify your team
• Fully identify all of your opponents (Each column needs to be labeled with your opponent’s name.)
• Hand in the physical copy of the form. Do not text it to us.
• Use whole numbers only
• Please write carefully and legibly. Please.
• Remember, some schools have more than one team in each division!

Here are the complete spirit standings after one day of play:

Wow.

What a day indeed! Here’s where things stand:

Some photos from today are online here and here.

The full schedule is online here. Please look it over in detail and make sure you know where to be when. Send questions in ASAP if you have any.

The Falmouth B boys are running low on numbers and are looking for some pickup players. Anyone from another team is welcome to join them for some or all of their games tomorrow which will take place at 9:30, 12:30, 2:00, and 3:30pm. If you’re interested in picking up with them, please email their coach James Whiting at whitingjamesf@gmail.com.

A pickup game for family and friends of players was called for… so we’re going to schedule two of them! The first one will take place from 8-9am on Field 14 and the second from 12:30 to 1:30 on field 5. Anyone is free to come on out and play… players too if you’d like! Bring a dark and a light and have some fun!

Please make sure you turn in your Sunday spirit score sheet to tournament central immediately after your last game is done tomorrow. Please make sure you:

• Fully identify your team
• Fully identify all of your opponents (Each column needs to be labeled with your opponent’s name.)
• Use whole numbers only
• Please write carefully and legibly. Please.
• Remember, some schools have more than one team in each division!

The Awards Ceremony will take place 5:20pm at Tournament Central.

What a day! Thanks for playing so hard, and with so much spirit!

Complete results from Saturday, along where everyone is playing their first Sunday am game, are online in the schedule spreadsheet. Please make sure you look it over in detail and let us know ASAP if you have any questions.

Preliminary spirit score data for Saturday is now online: Girls, Boys. Full spirit score data will go out later tonight.

Miss out on getting exactly the tourney gear item you wanted? VC just launched an online store for PVI gear! A few notes:

• Code to get free shipping – customers can add any other VC gear in to their cart and have it shipped for free, too – anywhere in the US! “PVIFreeShip”
• Store open until next Sunday, May 26th
• Also, from Adriana @ VC: “If teams want to order up printed gear (the dark tanks, jerseys, cotton hoodies or something like that), we can process them like team orders, but have them drop me an email (adriana@vcultimate.com). Min 12 units.”

One note for tomorrow: PLEASE write out FULL team names on your spirit scoresheets, especially for your opponents. We have to enter thousands of data points and it’s a big slow down if we have to look up opponents.

Directions

Schedule

Field Map

Program

PVInvite on Facebook

PVI on Twitter

Here’s what’s in this year’s team boxes:

Food: 5 apples, 8 bananas, loaf of bread, jar of pb, jar of nutella, box of cookies (or brownie bites), pound bag of pretzels, pound bag of twizzlers, 2 plastic knives.

Recycling: white trash bag (trash), blue trash bag (recycling), smaller green bag (compost).

Various food is also available at tourney central.

PLEASE DRIVE SUPER SLOW ON ISLAND POND ROAD. PLEASE.

The gates to the Oxbow will open at 6:45am. Please do not arrive before that time.

• 6:45 to 7:25am: Check in for all teams that are playing during the 1st round
• 7:30 to 7:35am: Captain’s meeting for all teams that are playing during the 1st round
• 8:00am: Round 1 begins
• 8:10 to 8:55am: Check in for all teams that have a 1st round bye
• 9:00 to 9:05am: Captain’s meeting for all teams that have a 1st round bye
• 9:30am: Round 2 begins
• 9:10am to 9:55am: Check in for all teams that have a 1st and 2nd round bye
• 10:30am: Captain’s meeting for all teams that have a 1st and 2nd round bye

Here’s what will happen at check in:

• Teams will show us their medical authorization forms.
• We’ll ask you about any outstanding roster issues (Missing fees, uncleared players, missing dues, waivers, etc.) It would be GREAT if you had none of these issues at check in!
• We will collect a $100 check from you that we’ll hold as collateral until you hand in your second daily spirit score sheet. You’ll hand in one sheet at the end of games on Saturday and one at the end of games on Sunday. Checks should be made out to “Ultimate Good”. If you absolutely, 100% cannot bring a check, PayPal and Venmo options will be available at check in. Please bring a check if you can.

The rest of the schedule for Saturday:

• 3:45pm: Our Ultimate Home discussion at Tourney Central
• 4:30 to 8pm: Showers open at Northampton High School (NHS)
• 4:30 to 7:30pm: Showers open at JFK Middle School
• 4:40pm: Hard cap on round 6
• 6:30pm: Hard cap on round 7 (Crossover games)
• 5:30 to 8pm: Dinner is served at NHS
• 5 to 9:30pm: Dance, music, and social time fun at NHS!