We are excited to announce that bids are now being accepted for the 6th Annual Pioneer Valley Invitational!
Website: PVInvite.org
Date: May 18th and 19th, 2019
Divisions (# of teams): Youth Girls (24-32), Youth Boys (24-32)
Location: Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA
Cost: $490 (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.
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The 100+ volunteers and I thank you for being such wonderful teams! We couldn’t be happier with how things turned out, and a HUGE part of the success of the event is because of teams like yours!
If possible, please forward this message to all members of your team.
Some good stuff for you:
1) To answer the question we know you’ve been wanting to ask, yes, you sure can follow Mabel and Buffy on Instagram!
2) 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 2019! 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.
3) Mark your calendars for May 18th and 19th, 2019! That’s when we’ll be holding the 6th annual PVI! The event will be back at the Oxbow!
4) We’d love to see any and all photos and video that you took this weekend. Please post whatever you can share to the PVI Facebook page. You can also send files directly to us using this link.
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. All game scores were also reported on Scorereport.net: Girls, Boys
6) Here’s what was left in the lost and found. If you recognize any items, please email Sheldon (sheldon@steadysales.com), the keeper of the Lost & Found with your address. Shipping on most items to most locations will run $7.50. Items not claimed by June 1st will be donated to charity.
7) 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 division spirit scores
Boys A division spirit scores
Boys B divisions spirit scores
Thank you again for attending the 5th annual Pioneer Valley Invitational!
See ya’ll on the field!
– Buffy, Mabel, and Josh
jseamon@gmail.com
The tournament schedule has now been updated with all results from Saturday. All teams can find out where they are playing their first game on Sunday on that page.
There is a chance there will be thunder and lightning tomorrow. If we need to clear the fields, we will signal you with 5 horn blasts as well as a text message to the tournament group. Immediately clear the fields (STOP any active ultimate) and return to your vehicles. We will send word via text message when you can return to the fields. Please join the tournament text messaging group by texting @pvi2018 to 81010. If you’re having trouble joining the group via text, you can also join with the Remind app.
Do you have photos or videos you’d like to share with us? Send them to us here! We’ll be sure to share them on our Facebook page! We’d love any photos and videos you can send in!
Spirit scores averaged by category are online here. A few sheets from Saturday have yet to come in, so the posted numbers aren’t perfect. They will also all be updated after games are complete on Sunday.
The following teams have yet to turn in their Saturday spirit score sheets. Please turn in your Saturday sheets before your games start on Sunday.
Other useful links:
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Boys:
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our ultimate HOME will be running a clinic on Saturday!
From Heather Ann Brauer:
Ultimate promotes itself as an inclusive progressive sport. Do you think it’s living up to that ideal? In what ways is ultimate doing a good job? Where does it need improvement?
Come talk about these things and more with our ultimate HOME on Saturday from 3:45pm to 4:30pm outside of tournament central. HOME is a grassroots organization that seeks to make Ultimate a true home for everyone, regardless of how they identify. Join us to explore issues of identity, intent vs. impact, and to learn more about HOME!
This just in from Mary Andrews, Northampton HS ultimate player and Ultimate Peace LIT!
Hello everyone! There will be a spikeball tournament at the PVI diner at Northampton High Saturday night! To enter, choose a partner and sign up at the tourney central. (Look for the signs) This is an Ultimate Peace fundraiser run by Mary Andrews, and to enter its $10 ($5 per person). It will be bracket play, and games to 11.
The tournament program is now online! Please make sure you read it over in detail.
It’s important that every team have as many people as possible sign up to receive tournament updates via text. Anyone can sign up by texting @pvi2018 to 81010.
An now a message from Tiina Booth!
Hello PVI players and coaches!
My name is Tiina Booth and I am one of the coaches of the UMass men’s team, as well as the director of the National Ultimate Training Camp. Welcome to the Pioneer Valley Invitational and we hope you are ready for an amazing weekend of ultimate!
Your team will receive a NUTC disc on Saturday morning and each disc has our summer schedule written on it. Please use and share this disc with your team. We will also have a NUTC Hospitality Tent set up and please stop by to say hi, hang out with campers and counselors and enjoy some special gifts.
Please also share this link with your team and parents for more info about camp.
Best of luck this weekend and please stop by and say hi!
Tiina