9 days ’till first pull!

I made a typo in the overall game schedule I sent out on 4/28. Last games on Sunday have a hard cap at 4:40pm. Key game-related timing info:

• Saturday and Sunday: Half of all teams will start their first game at 8am. The other half will start play at 9:30am.
• Saturday and Sunday: Half of all teams will have a last game that ends at 3:10. The other half will end play at 4:40pm. These times are the hard cap times. (Games could certainly go a few minutes past hard cap.)

Teams are doing a great job at rostering! All teams should look over their row on this spreadsheet and let me know immediately if they see anything that looks off.

Please make sure you post ALL of your game scores to scorereport.net.

Please make sure you complete the division selection form by Noon on Friday, May 5th.

Dinner payments and housing payments are due immediately. You cannot purchase food at the dinner. It must be paid for in the next couple days. Dinner costs $14 per person. Housing costs $52 per team. Info on how to make your payment is here. You can check the status of your dinner and housing payments on the team status sheet.

And now an important message about stewardship:

We are making extra efforts this year towards minimizing waste and environmental impact at the Pioneer Valley Invitational.  We will be sending around environmental ambassadors during the tournament to meet with your captains, coaches, and chaperones to support these efforts. 

We will be giving a Green Disc Award at the tournament’s end to the team who best exemplifies these goals:

FOOD: Please bring as little individually packaged food as possible.  Beyond what we are offering at the main tent for free, please bring big bags and boxes to share, (especially without plastic packaging if possible). Please empty your pizza boxes in the compost bins and recycle the cardboard, etc.. 

DRINKS: Please refrain from the use of single use bottles and cases of gatorade or water, whenever possible.  We will have plenty of water in coolers at the fields, and cold gatorade available continuously at tourney central.  We will also have reusable PVI water bottles for sale at the merch tent.  We hope to cut down on single use bottles at the tournament. 

TRASH/RECYCLING: Please do a trash sweep of your sideline each time you switch fields during the day.  At the end of each day, please bring trash/recycling bags to the dumpsters next to the main tent.  Please do not leave anything on the fields, including windblown tents.

COMPOST: Please put compostable food products in the green bags we will be distributing, or in the compost bins at tourney central (not in the trash). This will save our volunteers from having to sort trash at the end of the tournament.

CARPOOLING: If you can drive together, please do. The fewer cars and fuel, the better.

Together we can make PVI an example of how large youth sporting events can minimize waste and protect our environment for the benefit of our community and all living things. Thanks for your support and efforts towards this goal.