Tomorrow’s Schedule

PVI2014-Disc-LogoThank you for a phenomenal day of Ultimate! Lots of updates, including photos, have been posted to the tournament Facebook page. If you have photos or videos, please post them to the page as well! We’d love to see them all!

We made it into the local paper this morning! You can check out the article right here or here (PDF).

All of today’s scores (60 in all!) are now online: Girls Divisions, Open Divisions

Please make sure you look over all of your team’s reported scores and let me know if you see any issues (josh@pvinvite.org). Please make sure you know when and where to be tomorrow morning. Most games start at 8am. There is no captain’s meeting tomorrow.

If you haven’t done so already, please make sure you report all of your spirit scores using this form: bit.ly/pvi2014-scores. If you’re not sure if you have for a certain game, go ahead and submit it anyway — I will delete duplicates and keep the most recent entry.

The awards ceremony will occur as soon after the last games have finished as possible. We are hoping they will begin at around 4:15pm. Please stay for the ceremony! It’ll only last 10 minutes and it’s going to be awesome!

See you at the dinner/dance/social!

Yes, we are still on!

Screen Shot 2014-03-13 at 10.27.34 PMEverything is on as planned. The captains’ meeting is at 8am. Games start at 8:30am. 

One small change since last night: There has been a small shuffle of teams in the Open division. Cumberland is now in the B division and Longmeadow JV is in the A division. Hopkinton is now in a different A division pool (D). You can check out the full schedule right here.

See you very soon!

5/16 Update – 9pm

Here’s where we stand:

1) Nothing is delayed. Captains’ meeting at 8am. Games start at 8:30am.

2) Tournament setup has been going very well. Everything is looking fantastic. Here are some shots from setup:

Oxbow Fields on Friday evening

Oxbow Fields on Friday evening

See you all soon!

A few scheduling notes

Screen Shot 2014-05-04 at 8.52.34 PMIf you see a difference between a print schedule and the online Scorereport schedules, go by what is shown on the Scorereport schedules — Those are the ones that are most up to date.

Since printing the programs last night, I’ve made a few tweaks — Those changes, listed below, have been made to the Scorereport (Girls, Open) and online PDF versions of the schedule, but alas, I don’t have the ability to modify paper printouts, and I’m not super keen on taping over hundreds of sheets of paper 🙂

1) In the Open division, Cumberland and Cape Elizabeth have switched places.
2) All Sunday Girls B Division games start at 10am.

Also note:

1) Field 9 is not being used for any scheduled games. All other fields are being used for all rounds, except for three fields on Sunday morning from 8-10am. If you’re looking for a place to drill during your byes, please use field 9.

2) I’ve done by best to minimize how much teams have to move, but there was no way around lots of team movement between fields that just has to be done. Given that there is 30 minutes from hard cap to the start of the next round, teams should have a comfortable amount of time to change locations. Please be aware of where you need to be at what times and start (and end!) your games on time.

3) Please keep sidelines as clear as you can. Tents must be at least 5 yards away from any sideline.

5/15 Update

Screen Shot 2014-05-04 at 8.52.26 PMAll 1,000 things we can control to pull off this event are coming together quite well. We are SUPER excited to see all of you this weekend! Here’s we stand:

1) Remember that the captains’ meeting is at 8am on Saturday at Tournament Central. All teams must be represented regardless of byes. The meeting is super important and will last 5 minutes or less. Cool, eh?

2) The tournament program is now online (PDF). Please look it over and let me know if you have any questions.

3) Team paperwork is looking quite good. Rosters are by and large looking fantastic. If you still need to make roster modifications/updates, you actually still have time! I got USAU to keep the roster system open until this Sunday. So, go to it and make sure your roster is 100% clean.

4) Remember, your team will not be allowed to play until your dinner ticket payment has been paid. We will accept cash or checks. Checks should be made out to “Ultimate Good”. Here’s what teams owe:

Amherst JVB Open MA $80.00
Concord-Carlisle Girls MA $120.00
Concord-Carlisle A Open MA $160.00
Concord-Carlisle B Open MA $180.00
Cumberland Open ME $80.00
Cumberland Girls ME $90.00
Falmouth Girls ME $100.00
Falmouth Open ME $200.00
Lexington Girls MA $100.00
Needham A Girls MA $130.00
Needham B Girls MA $100.00
Ottawa Open ON $50.00

5) Yes, we are keeping a close eye on the weather. Right now it looks like we’re going to get decently hammered with rain on Friday night, but that the rain should taper off on Saturday morning. Our fields dry out quick, so we’ll be good to go on Saturday. That being said, please plan on dealing with some wet weather. I will let you know immediately if the weather is going to impact game schedules. Right now, everything looks fine.

5/14 Update (am)

And the fun continues…

1) Everyone now has about 8 hours remaining to totally clean up their rosters. Please make sure this gets done. Why not login to your USAU account now and triple check that all your players are 100% set on your PVI2014 roster? As always, you can check the status of your PVI paperwork right here.

2) The weather is looking better and better!
weather

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5/13 Update (pm)

Here’s where we are:

0) The captains’ meeting will be held at at 8am on Saturday at Tournament Central (Look for the big tent.). All teams must be represented regardless of if they have a first-round bye. The awards ceremony will take place at 4:15pm on Sunday.

1) The following teams are still not quite cleared. A representative from each of these teams need to immediately email me (josh@pvinvite.org) a status update. You can check what you’re missing right here.

Cumberland Girls Clear more players
John Jay Open Send in med forms
Lexington Girls Submit check
Montpelier JV Open Clear more players
Needham B Girls Clear more players

2) In order to account for a girls team that had to drop this afternoon, I redid the schedule for the Girls Division. The top 8 teams in the girls division play in two pools of four that feed into a standard 8-team champs bracket. The 9th through 15th initially ranked teams play a 7-team round robin. All teams in the girls division will play 6 games.

3) Here’s what teams owe for dinner. At this point, please do not mail checks. Bring your payments with you and hand them off to me before the captain’s meeting. Your team’s dinner payment must be submitted before your team will be allowed to play.

Amherst JVB Open MA $80.00
Concord-Carlisle Girls MA $120.00
Concord-Carlisle A Open MA $160.00
Concord-Carlisle B Open MA $180.00
Cumberland Open ME $80.00
Cumberland Girls ME $90.00
Falmouth Girls ME $200.00
Falmouth Open ME $200.00
Lexington Girls MA $100.00
Needham A Girls MA $130.00
Needham B Girls MA $100.00
Northampton JV Girls MA $150.00
Northampton JV Open MA $150.00
Northampton V Girls MA $150.00
Northampton V Open MA $150.00
Ottawa Open ON $290.00
Ottawa Girls ON $330.00

Checks should be made out “Ultimate Good”.

4) All teams should triple check their rosters to make sure everything is 100% correct. The rostering deadline is tomorrow, 5/14, at 3pm.

A note about the weather

Yes, we are quite aware that there is some precipitation heading our way:

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Feel free to track the same pages we are:
Weather.gov
Accuweather.com
Wunderground.com
Weather.com

Here’s what you need to know
1) It’s quite likely that we’re going to get a healthy amount of rain on Saturday, and a bit on Sunday. Please plan your gear accordingly.
2) It would take an utterly colossal amount of rain for the event to be in danger. The fields we’re on drain very well, and they are currently comfortably dry.
3) I will let you know via email the moment the weather even has any chance of impacting the schedule of the event.
4) There is no rain date. Well before we even get close to having to cancel the event, we’d modify the schedule.

Right now, we’re fine.

It’s going to be warm and the fields will be soft and a bit slick. #perfectforlayouts