Bids have been rolling in for the Pioneer Valley Invitational 2024! So far 20 bids have come in from 6 states and provinces!

Teams are admitted on a rolling basis.

Bids can be submitted online right here.

We are excited to announce that bids are now being accepted for the 9th Annual Pioneer Valley Invitational!

Website: PVInvite.org
Date: May 18th and 19th, 2024
Divisions (12-16 teams per): Youth Female-Matching A, Youth Female-Matching B, Youth Open A , Youth Open B
Location: Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA
Cost: $550 (Free if you fly in!)
USAU Sanctioned: Yes
Lined fields: Yes
Guaranteed # of games: 5, although most teams will get 6.

Team will be admitted on a rolling basis.

Here are some great reasons to attend the PVI2024!

And now a message from our AMAZING merchandise sponsor VC Ultimate!

The VC Ultimate team is proud to be back as the official merchandise sponsor for PVI2024! We’d love to see your team in VC uniforms at the tournament, too! To help make that happen, every team that submits a bid for PVI2024 will receive a free VC Card Membership. Just drop us a line at info@vcultimate.com and ask for a PVI VC Card Membership so you can start saving on everything from uniforms to discs to iconic custom VC Windbreakers!

VC jerseys are made from 100% recycled FlexLight material, rated UPF50 and a feature gender-free fits. Most importantly, VC is a company that puts community over profit and is ultimate’s most inclusive apparel provider, and has been helping making ordering uniforms easy since 1998. www.vcultimate.com

Here are some of the answers that have come in to the question, “Why should someone attend the Pioneer Valley Invitational?”

The 9th annual PVI will take place on May 18th and 19th, 2024!

We project we’ll be opening up the bid process in the early fall.

• PVI was a great tournament experience. Meeting all the other teams, some new, some old friends, and playing in the best-run tournament I’ve ever attended was fantastic. There’s competitiveness for team at all levels, and I love that the TDs prioritize spirit so highly. It’s a great environment, and I can’t wait to go next year!
• Great competitive play and friendly atmosphere
• It was the biggest ultimate tournament I have ever played in and it was so much fun
• It is the most fun you’ll ever have playing high school ultimate — guaranteed
• It’s awesome!! From food to organization, everything that I may need during a frisbee tournament, they have. Such fun competition and games!
• Do give youth the opportunity to play Competitive Ultimate Frisbee and play Canadian Teams as well as introduce and demonstrate the friendly, supportive Ultimate Frisbee Community.
• PVI is a fun and competitive tournament where people all across the country get to interact and learn different styles of playing. The spirit at this tournament is unmatched and has every team feeling great after a game!
• For the great atmosphere and the different types of player you encounter! Meeting new people from around the country and making new memories and friends:)
• It is a great opportunity to play new teams if you’re coming from outside of the Massachusetts area.
• Because it is a great opportunity to play teams from all over
• It’s a really great experience to see familiar faces and people from hundreds of miles away all playing ultimate in one place.
• It’s a well-run, super organized event with friendly volunteers and tons of ultimate to watch in a beautiful setting. When frisbees aren’t flying, the herons and osprey are!
• Great people, good games
• It is a really fun experience that allows you to meet new people from many places. I learned a lot about the game and it was a really interesting experience.
• Competition for various skill levels, great fields, fun social dinner event, great support for teams with food, water etc
• It’s a fun competitive environment for high schoolers to grow and gain experience in ultimate.
• to watch the team and support them
• it is really fun and you meet new people
• It is a fun event with lots of competitive frisbee
• The organization and event communication is absolutely top notch.
• It’s such a scene to behold, to have that many high school kids playing ultimate in one place. It’s inspiring.
• Top notch tournament. Exposure to great teams. Well run. Well located
  Excellent variety of competition for all levels of teams. Atmosphere is just so very “Ultimate” 🤗

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that made PVI2023 such a wonderful success!

Y’all are awesome.

While the event is fresh in your mind, we’d appreciate it if you took a minute to fill out the Post-Tournament Survey. We’d love feedback from anyone that attended the event, or worked with any team that attended. The more feedback we get the better! Share this link with your whole team!

All game and spirit results are now online in the tournament spreadsheet. If you see anything that looks off, please let us know. All game results are also in the process of being posted on ScoreReport.net: Female-Matching games, Open games — Thanks to David Thompson for this work! He’d LOVE it if people could post the rest of their games this season on the system! He’s more than happy to help and answer questions about the ScoreReport.net system: dthompso@hotchkiss.org

Spirit awards winners: Please email me (josh@pvinvite.org) where you’d like your plaque sent and I’ll get it in the mail ASAP.

We’d love to see your tournament media! Email us links, or send media directly to josh@pvinvite.org. You can also upload media to us directly at this Dropbox link.

You can order PVI2023 merchandise directly from VC until May 22nd right here!

Here is a photo of everything that was in lost and found. If you see something you’d really like to get back, please text Danielle at 413-250-3328. Items not claimed by Monday, 5/22 will be donated. Also, I found a set of Apple AirPods and a wallet that seems to belong to Piper. R. Email me (josh@pvinvite.org) to claim either.

Mark your calendar: PVI2024 will take place on May 18th and 19th, 2024!

See you on the field.

• Josh, Jonah, and Lee

We are so, SO excited to host you all! A few l last items:

Please find me (Josh) to say hi in person this weekend if you can. I LOVE being able to meet all of you face to face.

PLEASE drive 10mpg on Island Rd., the last road leading into the Oxbow.

Make sure you are deeply familiar with the schedule. Same with the program. (There are no paper copies of the program this year.)

6:45 to 7:25am: Check in for all teams that are playing during the 1st round

8:10 to 8:55am: Check in for all teams that have a 1st round bye

During check in (at the tournament central tent) all teams need to show us their permission to treat (medical authorization) forms. You can show us digital copies. Teams will also get their dinner tickets and spirit score sheets (one for each day).

We’re looking for a team to play Blaze (Ottawa) in the Open C division at 9:30am on Saturday. Anyone up for a SUPER fun game against a SUPER fun team? Please let me know ASAP.

Let me (josh@pvinvite.org) know if you have any questions ASAP.

Safe travels.

Just yesterday afternoon one team from the Open C division (Cerebes) had an insurmountable issue come up which means they can’t attend. We look forward to welcoming them to the PVI next year!

I’m looking to see if any teams would like to take any of their game Saturday slots and play a team or two in the Open C division. Their Saturday games slots are at 9:30, 12:30, and 3:30 all on field 5, arguably the nicest field at the entire Oxbow. The other teams in their pool are SUPER fun — Albany (NY), Amherst JVB (MA), and Blaze (ON).

These games would be totally just for fun and wouldn’t count in rankings for Sunday. You could combine with another team to play in one or more of the game slots. I’m open to ideas. I’m trying as hard as I can to get these three amazing teams a third game each on Saturday. (We tried to find a team to replace Cerebes but it didn’t pan out.)

Please let me know ASAP if you’d like to snag one of the spots! (josh@pvinvite.org).

Added bonus — If you take one of the game slots, I’ll make it a priority to come by and cheer at at least one of your games this weekend with my unreal adorably cute son Wilson and bring Buffy the Golden as well 🙂

The schedule has now been finalized!

The program is now available!

60 hours until first pull!

A look at the fields from this afternoon:

The competition draft schedule is now online right here.

Feedback will be accepted until 10am tomorrow (5/10).

Special appreciation will be awarded to people who find any errors 🙂