The tournament schedule have now been populated with game-specific data. Rankings have been tweaked over the last week due to lots of data sent in by teams. Thanks!

Please take a minute to look over the schedule and let Josh know if you see any issues.

The tournament schedule will be locked and finalized on Monday, 5/14 at 3pm EST.

We’re only 9 days away from first pull! Here’s where we stand.

Rankings will be locked this coming Monday morning at 10am. Please send in your ranking comments by then. Our hope is to send out the exact tournament schedule by that evening.

Housing emails have been flying out! Please let Josh know if you haven’t received your housing email by this Friday night.

The rostering system will be locked this coming Monday, 5/14 @ 9pm EST. Please make sure all of your roster edits are made by that time. Please delete players that aren’t coming. Please add all players that are coming. Please remember that teams found to be playing with unrostered players will be immediately ejected. 

The following teams have yet to be cleared to play:

• Mamaroneck (Boys) (NY) [No – Roster issue]
• Montpelier JV (Girls) (VT) [No – Roster issue]
• Forest City (Boys) (ME) [No – Roster issue, Dinner $$]
• Forest City (Girls) (ME) [No – Roster issue, Dinner $$]
• Lexington JV (Boys) (MA) [No – Tourney $$]
• Lexington V (Boys) (MA) [No – Tourney $$]
• Somerville (Girls) (MA) [No – Tourney $$]

Emails connecting teams with their hosts started going out this weekend. If you are expecting housing but don’t receive an email with your host info by Wednesday night, 5/9, please email Josh.

The online rostering system will be locked on Monday night, 5/14 at 6pm EST. All rosters must be complete by then. Before then please make sure you add all players that will be at the event as well as remove everyone that will not be present. Make sure all online waivers are signed and all dues are paid.

Teams found playing with unrostered players will be immediately ejected from the event. 

Team rankings will be locked on Monday morning, 5/14. Before then, please make sure you look them over and email Josh if you think anything should be changed.

The following teams are NOT YET cleared to play and need to email Josh their plan for become cleared:

• Lincoln-Sudbury (Boys) (MA) [No – Dinner $$]
• Mamaroneck (Boys) (NY) [No – Roster issue]
• Montpelier JV (Girls) (VT) [No – Roster issue]
• Forest City (Boys) (ME) [No – Roster issue, Dinner $$]
• Forest City (Girls) (ME) [No – Roster issue, Dinner $$]
• Lexington JV (Boys) (MA) [No – Tourney $$]
• Lexington V (Boys) (MA) [No – Tourney $$]
• Somerville (Girls) (MA) [No – Tourney $$]

With over 1,100 athletes and 300 adults coming in for the PVI, lots needs to get done. Would you like to join in on the fun of putting on the event?

You can sign up to help out right here!

We’re just over 2 weeks away from the first pull! Here’s where we stand:

The following teams are NOT yet cleared to play:

• Dinner $$ = Teams the requested dinner tickets and have yet to pay.
• Roster issue = No cleared chaperone and/or not enough cleared players.
• Tourney $$ = The tourney fee has yet to arrive.
• You can check your team’s status right here.
  • Beacon (Girls) (NY) [No – Dinner $$]
  • Lincoln-Sudbury (Boys) (MA) [No – Dinner $$]
  • Northampton JV (Boys) (MA) [No – Dinner $$]
  • Northampton V (Girls) (MA) [No – Dinner $$]
  • Northampton V (Boys) (MA) [No – Dinner $$]
  • Acton-Boxborough (Boys) (MA) [No – Roster issue]
  • Amherst JVA (Boys) (MA) [No – Roster issue]
  • Mamaroneck (Boys) (NY) [No – Roster issue]
  • Montpelier JV (Girls) (VT) [No – Roster issue]
  • Montpelier V (Girls) (VT) [No – Roster issue]
  • Forest City (Boys) (ME) [No – Roster issue, Dinner $$]
  • Forest City (Girls) (ME) [No – Roster issue, Dinner $$]
  • Lexington JV (Boys) (MA) [No – Tourney $$]
  • Lexington V (Boys) (MA) [No – Tourney $$]
  • Somerville (Girls) (MA) [No – Tourney $$]

The first rankings and pools are now online. These are just the first draft! Please email Josh ASAP with questions, comments, and concerns! Keep in mind:

• Rankings will be finalized on Monday, May 14th at 6pm EST.
  • The faster you send in comments regarding ranking, the higher the likelihood they will be folded in.
• The initial rankings were mainly based on last year’s tournament results as well as a few of the known results from this spring.
• Geographic diversity is prioritized for pool play, so some rankings have been tweaked a little bit to diversify some pools.
• The rankings will certainly evolve over the next week as information it sent in and more games are played.

The following teams submitted the $50 housing fee by this evening’s deadline and are therefore guaranteed housing. Teams will now be put on a waitlist for housing in the order their payments arrive in Easthampton.

• Beacon (Girls)
• Cape Elizabeth (Boys)
• Columbia V (Girls)
• Concord-Carlisle (Boys)
• Concord-Carlisle (Girls)
• Cumberland (Boys)
• Cumberland (Girls)
• Falmouth (Girls)
• Falmouth A (Boys)
• Falmouth B (Boys)
• Ingraham (Girls)
• Lincoln-Sudbury (Girls)
• Montpelier (Boys)
• Montreal Arsenic (Boys)
• Montreal Arsenic (Girls)
• Montreal Titane (Girls)
• Montreal Titane (Boys)
• Needham (Boys)
• Needham (Girls)
• Scarsdale (Boys)
• Vermont Commons (Boys)
• WWPN (Girls)
• WWPS (Girls)

With the dinner and housing payment deadline coming up this Friday, May 4th, some teams need to send funds to us fast. If that’s the case, PayPal is an option.

Housing is $50 per team and dinner costs $12.50 per person.

If you’d like to send us funds via PayPal, please:

1. Make sure you send us enough to also cover any PayPal fees you may incur.
2. Send the funds to sheldon@steadysales.com.
3. Make sure to include a detailed description of what you’re paying for, and which team you’re with, when you make the payment.
4. Forward the PayPal payment receipt to BOTH Josh (josh@pvinvite.org) and Sheldon (sheldon@steadysales.com).

Please remember that after May 4th we will not be selling dinner tickets, and housing will no longer be guaranteed. 

The following is the current tournament schedule outline. It is NOT set in stone!

Please read it over and let Josh know, ASAP, if you see any issues.

Things to note:

• We are working to minimize the number of fields in an effort increase overall field quality and the space between fields. With this in mind we are planning on running 17 fields.
• There are 24 girls teams and 44 boys teams spanning a wide range of competitive levels.
• We’re working to maximize the frequency of close games.
• With this schedule 36 teams get 6 games and 32 teams get 7 games. [220 total games will be played.]
• We are working to minimize:
  • Teams having back to back games with no bye in between.
  • Teams playing each other more than once.
• Any girls team can end up winning either the A or B divisions.
• Any boys teams that starts in the A or B divisions can end up winning either the A or B divisions.
• All rounds will be 70 minutes from start to hard cap. There will be 20 minutes from hard cap to the start of the next round. (There are very few instances of teams playing in back to back rounds.)
• All games will be to 13. No win by 2.
• On both Saturday and Sunday, 34 teams will start their first game at 8am and 34 will start their first game at 9:30am.
• On Saturday, the hard cap on the last game of the day will be at 4:40pm for 34 teams and at 6:30pm for 32 teams.
• On Sunday, the hard cap on the last game of the day will be at 3:10pm for 34 teams and 4:40pm for 34 teams.

The plan:

Girls – Saturday: The top 8 teams will be split into 2 snaked power pools of 4 [A-division]. Seeds 9 through 24 will be split into 4 snaked pools of 4 [B-division]. After pool play, the top-two finishers in each of the 4 B-division pools will play a crossover game against a team from the power pools. If a power pool team wins their crossover game, they and their opponent stay seeded as they were immediately after pool play. If the power pool team loses, they switch seeding with their opponent.

Girls – Sunday: The top 8 teams play for 1st through 8th in the A-division champs bracket. The top two teams from each of the 4 B-division pools play for 9th through 16th in the B-division champs bracket. The bottom two teams from each of the 4 B-division pools play for 17th through 24th in the consolation bracket.

Boys – Saturday: The top 8 teams will be split into 2 snaked power pools of 4 [A-division]. Seeds 9 through 40 will be split into 8 snaked pools of 4 [B-division]. Seeds 41 through 44 will be in a pool together [C-division]. After pool play, the winners of the 8 B-division pools will play a crossover game against a team from the power pools. If a power pool team wins their cross over game, they and their opponent stay seeded as they were immediately after pool play. If the power pool team loses, they switch seeding with their opponent.

Boys – Sunday: The top 8 teams play for 1st through 8th in the A-division champs bracket. The top-ranked team from each of the 8 B-division pools play for 9th through 16th in the B-division champs bracket. The second-ranked team from each of the 8 B-division pools play for 17th through 24th place in the consolation bracket. The third-ranked team from each of the 8 B-division pools play for 25th through 32nd place in the consolation bracket. The fourth-ranked teams from each of the 8 B-division pools are mixed together with the 4 teams from the C-division pool to form three pools of 4. These three pools of 4 play for 33rd through 44th place. (3-way ties for 33rd, 36th, 39th, and 42nd will result.)

Here’s what everything looks like gridded out:

Key

• GA-1 = “Girls A pool 1”
• G1-8 = “Girls champs bracket for 1st through 8th place”

We’re only 18 days away from tourney time! Here’s where we stand:

1. Dinner and housing checks are due in Easthampton by this Friday, 5/4. Housing costs $50 per team and dinner costs $12.50 per person. Checks should be made out to “Ultimate Good” and sent to Josh Seamon, PVI2018, 3 Payson Ave #1, Easthampton, MA 01027. Dinner tickets will not be sold after 5/4. Only teams that pay the housing fee by 5/4 are guaranteed housing. 
2. The following teams are not yet cleared to play:
   1. Lexington JV (Boys) (MA) [No – $$]
   2. Lexington V (Boys) (MA) [No – $$]
   3. Somerville (Girls) (MA) [No – $$]
   4. Acton-Boxborough (Boys) (MA) [No – Roster issue]
   5. Amherst JVA (Boys) (MA) [No – Roster issue]
   6. Amherst JVB (Boys) (MA) [No – Roster issue]
   7. Brooklyn Tech (Boys) (NY) [No – Roster issue]
   8. Forest City (Boys) (ME) [No – Roster issue]
   9. Forest City (Girls) (ME) [No – Roster issue]
   10. Mamaroneck (Boys) (NY) [No – Roster issue]
   11. Montpelier JV (Girls) (VT) [No – Roster issue]
   12. Montpelier V (Girls) (VT) [No – Roster issue]
3. Everyone should take a minute to check their team’s info on the Team Status page. Please let Josh know if you see any issues by emailing him at josh@pvinvite.org.