All games will be played at the Oxbow Marina fields in Northampton, MA.
SUPER IMPORTANT NOTE: There is ONE road (Island Pond Rd) leading into the Oxbow. You MUST drive VERY slowly — 15mph max — on the road and be super mindful of the narrow road and everything near its edges. If you don’t drive SUPER chill on the road, you and your entire team will be immediately ejected from the PVI and not invited back next year.
Please join the tournament text group by texting @pvi2019 to 81010. It’s very important that at least one person from every team joins the group.
Please make sure you enter in as many games as you can into scorereport.net. Please take a few minutes to do this right now. It’s crucial for us to be able to accurately pre-rank PVI teams, and this site generates great rankings… as long as it has lots of data!
Here’s what’s set about the schedule so far:
On Saturday, 5/18:
- Round 1 starts at 8:00am. Round 7 ends at 6:30pm.
- Everyone will start their first game at 8am OR 9:30am.
- All teams will play 3 or 4 games.
- ~1/3 of teams will end play at 3:10, ~1/3 at 4:40pm, and ~1/3 at 6:30pm.
- The dinner/dance/social will run from ~5pm to ~9:30pm at Northampton HS.
On Sunday, 5/19:
- Round 8 starts at 8:00am. Round 13 ends at 4:40pm.
- Everyone will start their first game at 8am OR 9:30am depending how they do on Saturday.
- All teams will play 3 games.
- ~1/2 of teams will end play at 3:10pm and ~1/2 at 4:40pm.
Here’s the current draft of how the games will be run. THIS IS NOT SET YET.
Please email josh@pvinvite.org if you have questions or comments.
Girls Division (28 teams)
- Teams 1 – 4 will be in a power pool.
- Each of these teams goes to the quarters after pool play.
- Pool play will determine ranking for Division 1 bracket play.
- Teams 5 – 20 will be divided into 4 pools of 4.
- The winners of each of these 4 pools will play in the quarters with the 4 teams that started in the power pool.
- Teams that finish 2nd or 3rd in pool play will be in the Division II champs bracket.
- Teams that finish 4th in their pool will play in the Division III champs bracket.
- Teams 21 – 28 will be divided into two pools of 4.
- Teams that finished 1st or 2nd in pool play will be in the Division III champs bracket.
- Teams that finished 3rd or 4th in pool play will play in a consolation pool.
Boys Division (37 teams)
- Teams 1 – 16 will be in 4 pools of four.
- Teams that finish 1st or 2nd in their pool will play in the Div I champs bracket.
- Teams that finished 3rd or 4th in their pool will play in the 9th through 16th place bracket.
- Teams 17 – 32 will be in four pools of four.
- Teams that finish 1st or 2nd in their pool will play in the Division II champs bracket.
- Teams that finished 3rd in the pool will play in the Division III champs bracket.
- Teams that finish 4th in their pool will play in a consolation pool of 5.
- Teams 33 through 37 will be in a pool of 5.
- Teams that finish 1st through 4th will play in the Division III champs bracket.
- The team that finishes 5th will play in a consolation pool of 5 with the 4 teams that finished 4th in their pools from the 17-32 pools.
Schedule notes
- There are no last round cross over games on Saturday like there have been in past years.
- All teams except for 4 boys teams will play 6 games.
- Any girls team that starts ranked…
- … in the top 20 could win the Division I bracket.
- … 5 through 20 could win any division.
- … 21 through 28 could win the Division III bracket.
- Any boys team that starts ranked…
- … in the top 16 could win the Division I bracket.
- … 17 through 32 could win the Division II or Division III bracket.
- … 33 through 37 could win the Division III bracket.
Here is the initial ranking. Email josh@pvinvite.org by Monday, 5/13 @ 3pm if you have any suggested changes.
Click here to view the current state of the initial rankings.
- Initial rankings were primarily based on how teams finished last year.
- If you think a change should be made to the rankings, please let Josh know why — with as much detail as possible — and what you think the ranking change should be.