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Remind, Weather, Sidelines, Not Cleared to Play, Chaperones, and Rosters

Good morning everyone!

All team chaperones need to join the event Remind group by texting @pvi2025 to the number 81010. We will be using this group to send out important updates during the event. Only Josh can post to the group. Note that you don’t need the remind app to join. (You can leave the channel any time by texting @leave @pvi2025 to the number 81010.)

We are keeping a close eye on the weather. While there is some chance of rain, it’s looking like it won’t be too hot and we could get some clouds, which is awesome. If we need to clear the fields due to weather, horn blasts and texts/emails will be used. Go back to cars. Stay there until you get a followup message.

Nothing that would be unsafe for a person to fall onto may be within 7 yards of any sideline. Yes, this means that there may not be space on some sidelines for items like tents, chairs, and coolers. All tents MUST be staked down.

These teams are currently not cleared to play along with the reason(s) why. If your team is NOT on this list, then it means you are cleared to play. As always, any team can check the status of their tasks/items on the team status spreadsheet. (Click to enlarge the image.)

These teams still have chaperone issues, along with the remaining issues. Please get them sorted immediately. What needs to be done is online here. (Click the image to enlarge.)

These teams have yet to send in their roster. Please send your roster in today using the roster submission form.

TeamDivision
BardFemale-Matching
LexingtonFemale-Matching
BeaconOpen
MontpelierOpen
ScarsdaleOpen

Recycling and Free Gatorade!

Greetings!

We are excited to see you at the Pioneer Valley Invitational (PVI) this weekend!

Every year we work to minimize our environmental impact at PVI. Each person can help by taking a few simple steps (below). Please share this message with your team and their supporters. 

DRINKS:  Please bring refillable water bottles and refrain from the use of single use bottles and cases of Gatorade or water. We will have plenty of water in coolers at the fields, and free 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 plastic bottles at the tournament. 

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.

COMPOST:  Please put food waste (banana peels, watermelon rinds, any uneaten food) in the green compost 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.

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 and green compost bags to the dumpsters next to the main tent.  Please do not leave anything on the fields, including windblown tents. Most plastic and metal containers can be recycled.

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

We will be sending around environmental ambassadors during the tournament to meet with your captains, coaches, and chaperones to support these efforts.  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.

Sonia Bouvier
PVI Recycling and Compost Volunteer Coordinator
413.695.7247

Schedule finalized, chaperones, and teams cleared to play

The event schedule has been finalized. Please look it over and make sure it makes sense. Let me know ASAP if you have any questions. Please note that all teams must check in before their assigned captains meeting on Saturday morning with both of their chaperones.

Current chaperone issues are listed below. Everything each of your two chaperones needs to do to be cleared is listed on the Paperwork page.

The teams listed below are cleared to play. If your team is not listed below, please immediately check the Team Status spreadsheet to determine what your team is missing.

Chaperone issues as of May 12th @ 10am (Click to enlarge):

Female-Matching teams cleared to play as of May 12th @ 10am:

Open teams cleared to play as of May 12th @ 10am:

PVI2025 DRAFT Schedule #1

The first draft of the schedule is online here.

Feedback on the schedule will be accepted until Saturday, May 10th at Noon.

Notes:

  • This year’s schedule is effectively the same as what we ran last year, with a slight tweak to the Open C division which needed to be adjusted to a different number of teams.
  • Pools were created with geographic diversity in mind.
  • I have set things up to, as far as I can tell, absolutely minimize the chance that any team plays the same team more than once. That being said, please let me know if I missed something!
  • Unless your initial ranking seems WAY off, you probably won’t be moved.
  • PLEASE look over how your game schedule could play out and make sure it makes sense.
  • I have gone over this draft many times, but with a total of 188 scheduled games spanning 12 rounds and 20 fields, I am bound to have made at least a couple mistakes. PLEASE let me know if something looks off or you catch an error even if you’re not sure it’s an error.
  • 8 teams will play 5 games. 56 teams will play 6 games.

I am aiming to lock in a final draft of the schedule by Sunday morning, May 11th.

My happy place 🙂

Showers and Parking

Showers will be available from 4-6pm on Saturday at Northampton High School and JFK Middle School.

Every team has an assigned location to shower:

  • If you play your last game on Saturday somewhere on fields 1 through 8 you shower at Northampton HS.
  • If you play your last game on Saturday somewhere on fields 9 through 19 you shower at JFK Middle School.

A word on parking…

For an event this size, parking needs to be efficient, and it’s not possible for everyone (or even anyone) to park right next to their team’s field. We all need to cooperate on this. Please recognize the goodwill and the efforts of the volunteers who are working hard to make parking for PVI run smoothly, and please follow their requests and directions. We know you might be running a little late and you just want to get to the field to watch your player. We get it. In the spirit of ultimate, please be respectful of the parking coordinators and your fellow parkers, arrive early, and set a good example for your players.

THE LOT

The feature documentary THE LOT will be filming at PVI2025 following several teams to learn about the values of our sport. THE LOT is made by ultimate players and you can find out more at WelcomeToTheLot.com and follow @UltiArchives on Instagram. For more information contact director Tony Leonardo at tony@welcometothelot.com.

May 7th DRAFT rankings. Feedback due by 3pm on May 8th.

Here is the second draft of the rankings.

Please open up your RRI page listed below and make sure all of your games are listed. (Also let me know if I pulled the wrong page for your team!) Add in any missing games. (RRI takes about a day to update.)

Feedback will be accepted until 3pm ET on May 8th. Feedback should be emailed to josh@pvinvite.org.

Female-Matching: 8 teams will be in the A division, 12 in the B division.

Open: 16 teams will be in the A division, 16 will be in the B division, and 12 will be in the C division.

There will not be any crossover games between divisions.

I am aiming to create the first draft of the event schedule by this Friday night, 5/9.

TeamDivisionCityState/ ProvinceRRI Page5/7 DRAFT Ranking5/7 DRAFT Division Assignment
TitaneFemale-MatchingMontréalQCHere1A
Amherst VFemale-MatchingAmherstMAHere2A
Four Rivers VFemale-MatchingGreenfieldMAHere3A
TorontoFemale-MatchingTorontoONHere4A
HaverfordFemale-MatchingHavertownPAHere5A
LexingtonFemale-MatchingLexingtonMAHere6A
ArlingtonFemale-MatchingArlingtonMAHere7A
Northampton VFemale-MatchingNorthamptonMAHere8A
BardFemale-MatchingManhattanNYHere9B
CimesFemale-MatchingMontérégieQCHere10B
Lincoln SudburyFemale-MatchingSudburyMAHere11B
ArgonFemale-MatchingMontréalQCHere12B
Green Mountain GirlsFemale-matchingVermontVTHere13B
FalmouthFemale-MatchingFalmouthMEHere14B
Sharon VFemale-MatchingSharonMAHere15B
SomervilleFemale-MatchingSomervilleMAHere16B
BeaconFemale-MatchingNew YorkNYHere17B
BostonFemale-MatchingBostonMAHere18B
Amherst JVFemale-MatchingAmherstMAHere19B
Northampton JVFemale-MatchingNorthamptonMAHere20B
ÉchoOpenSherbrookeQCHere1A
ArlingtonOpenArlingtonMAHere2A
LakesideOpenAtlantaGAHere3A
Columbia VOpenMaplewoodNJHere4A
Lexington VOpenLexingtonMAHere5A
Westfield AOpenWestfieldNJHere6A
Brooklyn TechOpenBrooklynNYHere7A
Four Rivers VOpenGreenfieldMAHere8A
HaverfordOpenHavertownPAHere9A
Montclair VOpenMontclairNJHere10A
StuyvesantOpenNew YorkNYHere11A
Needham VOpenNeedhamMAHere12A
MontpelierOpenMontpelierVTHere13A
TitaneOpenMontréalQCHere14A
BardOpenNew YorkNYHere15A
Northampton VOpenNorthamptonMAHere16A
Lincoln SudburyOpenSudburyMAHere17B
BeaconOpenNew YorkNYHere18B
MiddletownOpenMiddletownCTHere19B
SomervilleOpenSomervilleMAHere20B
CimesOpenMontérégieQCHere21B
Columbia JVOpenMaplewoodNJHere22B
ScarsdaleOpenScarsdaleNYHere23B
WWPOpenPlainsboroNJHere24B
Amherst BxJVAOpenAmherstMAHere25B
PVCICSOpenHadleyMAHere26B
CumberlandOpenGreelyMEHere27B
HartsbrookOpenHadleyMAHere28B
FalmouthOpenFalmouthMEHere29B
Forest CityOpenPortlandMEHere30B
Monument MountainOpenGreat BarringtonMAHere31B
Westfield BOpenWestfieldNJHere32B
ArgonOpenMontréalQCHere33C
Lexington JVOpenLexingtonMAHere34C
Montclair JVOpenMontclairNJHere35C
BostonOpenBostonMAHere36C
ARMSOpenAmherstMAHere37C
Columbia 68sOpenMaplewoodNJHere38C
BrownOpenNewtonMAHere39C
Needham JVOpenNeedhamMAHere40C
Acton-BoxboroughOpenActon-BoxboroughMAHere41C
Northampton JVOpenNorthamptonMAHere42C
PVPAOpenSouth HadleyMAHere43C
FrontierOpenSouth DeerfieldMAHere44C

Teams cleared to play, May 6th

All of the teams that are currently cleared to play are listed below.

If your team is not on the list, that means that you have yet to complete at least one of these items:

  • Send in all payments (Bid, housing, dinner)
  • Have two cleared chaperones
  • Submitted a roster

Some of these items are easy to fix quickly: Sending in missing payments, sending in your roster

Some of these items can be much more challenging to fix in a timely manner: Having two cleared chaperones: Chaperone Info Form, Chaperone Requirements

If your team is not on this list, please look over the Team Status sheet, figure out what you’re missing, and… get those items completed.

Let me know ASAP if you have any questions. (josh@pvinvite.org)

Teams that are cleared to play as of 5/6 @ 11:45am:

TeamDivisionCityState/ Province
BeaconFemale-MatchingNew YorkNY
CimesFemale-MatchingMontérégieQC
Four Rivers VFemale-MatchingGreenfieldMA
TorontoFemale-MatchingTorontoON
Amherst BxJVAOpenAmherstMA
ArgonOpenMontréalQC
BardOpenNew YorkNY
Brooklyn TechOpenBrooklynNY
CimesOpenMontérégieQC
Columbia 68sOpenMaplewoodNJ
Columbia JVOpenMaplewoodNJ
Columbia VOpenMaplewoodNJ
ÉchoOpenSherbrookeQC
Four Rivers VOpenGreenfieldMA
LakesideOpenAtlantaGA
MiddletownOpenMiddletownCT
Montclair JVOpenMontclairNJ
Northampton JVOpenNorthamptonMA
SomervilleOpenSomervilleMA
Westfield AOpenWestfieldNJ