The following teams have players on their roster that need to pay their USAU dues. Please get this done today. Teams must have perfect rosters in order to be allowed to play. If a player is on your roster that is no longer attending, please remove them from your roster.
Team
Division
# of unpaid players
Argon
Female-Matching
1
Golden-Fringants
Female-Matching
2
Green Mountain Girls
Female-Matching
3
Northampton JV1
Female-Matching
1
Bard
Open
2
Brown MS
Open
17
Champlain Valley Union
Open
4
Golden
Open
5
Lexington JV
Open
2
Montpelier
Open
1
Northampton V
Open
1
Teams that need to pay player dues as of 5/14/24 @ 10am
The tournament schedule has now been finalized. Please look it over in detail.
Also… is the roster you have online in the USAU system perfect? The roster system is set to lock sometime in the next 24 hours. Please make sure your roster is perfect. Today.
Here’s a written summary outline of the game schedule:
F-M A Division: 8 teams are split between two pools of 4. Everyone plays everyone in their pool on Saturday. Teams are re-ranked inside their pools after pool play is done on Saturday. On Sunday the 8 teams play a standard 8-team elimination bracket. All teams play 3 games on Saturday and 3 games on Sunday.
F-M B Division: 12 teams are split into four pools of 3. Everyone plays everyone in their pool on Saturday. Teams are re-ranked inside their pools after pool play is done on Saturday. On Saturday, after re-ranking, there is a crossover round where teams that finished second in their pool play teams that finished 3rd in their pool. The winners of those crossover games become/stay 2nd and the losers become/stay 3rd. For example, the winner of the 2Cv3E game becomes/stays 2C and the loser becomes/stays 3E. On Sunday, the teams that finish in the top two positions in each pool will play in a standard 8-team elimination bracket. The teams that finish 3rd in their pools on Saturday will play a 4-team round robin on Sunday. All teams will play 3 games on Saturday and 3 games on Sunday, except for four teams that win their pools on Saturday: Those four teams will only have 2 games on Saturday.
Open A and B Divisions: 16 teams are split into four pools of 4. Everyone plays everyone in their pool on Saturday. Teams are re-ranked inside their pools after pool play is done on Saturday. The top two teams in each pool advance to a standard 8-team elimination bracket on Sunday. The bottom two teams in each pool will play in a standard 8-team consolation elimination bracket on Sunday. All teams will play 3 games on Saturday ad 3 games on Sunday.
Open C Division: 14 teams are split into two pools of 4 and two pools of 3. Everyone plays everyone in their pool. Teams are re-ranked inside their pools after pool play is done on Saturday. The two pools of 3 play one round of crossover games on Saturday where the teams that finish second in each 3-team pool play the team that finish third in each pool of 3. The winners of those crossover games become/stay 2nd and the losers become/stay 3rd. For example, the winner of the 2Iv3J game becomes/stays 2I and the loser becomes/stays 3J. On Sunday, the top two teams from each pool play in a standard 8-team elimination bracket. The teams that finish 3rd or 4th in their pools on Saturday will play in a 6-team consolation round robin on Sunday.
Other notes:
I worked hard to create geographically diverse pools.
Teams were ranked based on RRI ratings, last year’s results, as well as some specific game and tournament results from this season. Ranking a group of teams this large and spread out is effectively impossible to do perfectly, but I feel as though everyone is in a solid initial position that maximizes the number of quality games everyone will play.
While I am confident in this final schedule playing out as planned, there is always a chance that with an event of this size (195 games!) that something could change on the schedule. If that happens, all impacted teams will be immediately notified and the change will be noted on the change log tab of the the schedule spreadsheet.
Games this year are hard capped at 75 minutes instead of 70 minutes like last year. Please make sure your team clears the field immediately after your game ends. Unless you’re playing in a pool of 3 on Saturday, you never have games in back to back rounds at any point during the weekend.
There are several open fields available for teams to use during their byes. You can check for which fields are open each round on the field allocation tab.
There is no awards ceremony this year. Trophies will be awarded to the top three finishers in each division (F-M A, F-M B, Open A, Open B, Open C) immediately after final placement games. Spirit award notifications will be sent out on Sunday night once all calculations are finished. Spirit award trophies will be sent out/delivered in the week after the tournament.
There will be a closing ceremony on Sunday at tournament central at 5:20pm. This ceremony will be short and is completely optional for attending teams, although we’d love to see lots of you there to say goodbye!
The tournament program will be available soon.
This year we have two shower locations (Northampton HS and JFK Middle School) which are both open from 4-6pm. If you finish 1st or 2nd in your pool, please shower at Northampton HS. If you finish 3rd or 4th in your pool, please shower at JFK Middle School. At each location teams should park in the school parking lot and look for signs and volunteers directing them to the shower location in the school.
The dinner and social happen at Northampton HS. The dinner runs from 6-8 and the social runs from 6 to 9:30. (It takes 10 minutes to drive from JFK to Northampton HS.)
Here’s the second draft of divisions along with initial rankings.
Please let me know ASAP if you see anything that looks off. If you have a suggested edit, please send in as much justification as you can. Suggested edits will be accepted until Saturday, 5/11 @ 6pm ET.
Please also keep in mind that rankings will most likely be tweaked a little bit to spread teams out geographically between pools, once the schedule is generated. So, it’s important that your team is at least pretty much in the right spot in terms of ranking. Minute ranking changes aren’t super important in the grand scheme of the event.
Please remember that dinner tickets for the Saturday night dinner are $16.25 per person and are due by May 10th at 6pm ET. This is a very firm deadline.
At this point dinner fees should be sent in digitally using PayPal (sales@ultimategood.org). Please make sure you list your team name and division (be specific) in the memo field AND email josh@pvinvite.org the confirmation of payment from PayPal.
You can check on the status of your dinner fee payment, as well as all of your other tasks, on the Team Status spreadsheet.
Here is the list of teams that are currently not cleared to play. Each of these teams needs to email me (josh@pvinvite.org) immediately and let me know when all of your tasks will be complete.
Team
Division
Beacon
Open
Boston
Open
Cape Elizabeth
Open
Champlain Valley Union
Open
Falmouth
Open
Forest City
Female-Matching
Forest City
Open
Four Rivers V
Open
Golden
Open
Golden-Fringants
Female-Matching
Lexington JV
Open
Monument Mountain
Open
Northampton V
Open
PVPA
Open
Scarsdale
Open
Teams not cleared to play as of 5/8/24
Coming soon: Next division drafts and initial rankings.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Dinners tickets for the Saturday night dinner are $16.25 per person and are due by May 10th at 6pm ET. This is a very firm deadline.
Dinner tickets cannot be purchased at the tournament.
Teams don’t need to purchase dinner to attend the Saturday night event.
All teams can purchase dinner tickets even if they didn’t request them on the dinner, housing, and roster prep form.
At this point dinner fees should be sent in digitally using PayPal (sales@ultimategood.org). Please make sure you list your team name and division (be specific) in the memo field AND email josh@pvinvite.org the confirmation of payment from PayPal.
The dinner will again be provided by The Black Sheep. The menu will be very close, if not identical, to the menu listed below.
You can check on the status of your dinner fee payment, as well as all of your other tasks, on the Team Status spreadsheet.
Here are the teams that currently owe dinner payments:
Team
Division
City
State/ Province
Dinner amount due
Cimes
Female-Matching
Montérégie
QC
$357.50
Golden-Fringants
Female-Matching
Sherbrooke+Gatineau
QC
$390.00
Northampton JV1
Female-Matching
Northampton
MA
$195.00
Northampton JV2
Female-Matching
Northampton
MA
$211.25
Northampton V
Female-Matching
Northampton
MA
$243.75
WWPN
Female-Matching
Plainsboro
NJ
$292.50
Beacon
Open
New York
NY
$357.50
Boston
Open
Boston
MA
$243.75
Cape Elizabeth
Open
Cape Elizabeth
ME
$227.50
Champlain Valley Union
Open
Hinesburg
VT
$292.50
Cimes
Open
Montérégie
QC
$357.50
Columbia JV
Open
Maplewood
NJ
$373.75
Columbia V
Open
Maplewood
NJ
$357.50
Falmouth
Open
Falmouth
ME
$325.00
Golden
Open
Gatineau
QC
$406.25
Northampton V
Open
Northampton
MA
$373.75
Somerville V
Open
Somerville
MA
$357.50
Dinner menu:
Black Sheep Mac and cheese Mac and cheese w/ chorizo Barbecue chicken Mediterranean tofu w/ artichoke hearts, roasted Peppers, herbs, and olives – vegan Garlic bread Garden salad Carrot Cake Chocolate cake
Here is the 1st DRAFT of the divisions. Note that these are not final and the teams are NOT ranked in each division. Ranking drafts will happen later this coming week. This division draft was crafted based on team preferences and RRI numbers currently listed on scorereport.net.
I’d love to hear your thoughts. Helpful items to consider as you think things over:
Here is the current list of teams (below) that are missing at least one major item and are therefore not cleared to play. Please look at your row of the team status spreadsheet to find out what you need to complete.
Housing payments are due by tomorrow, 5/1. Info on how to pay is online here. If your $50 payment ($52 if you use PayPal) doesn’t arrive by tomorrow, your team will not receive housing.
Please keep adding all of your scores to: scorereport.net. Please.
I hope to draft the first draft of the game schedule in the next 5-7 days. Here’s what’s likely at the moment: Female-Matching A (8 teams), Female-Matching B (12 teams), Open A (16 teams), Open B (16 teams), Open B (14 teams). No crossovers between divisions. There is a *small* chance that 2-6 teams *may* only have 5 games. No team will have more than 6 games.
In the coming two weeks you will receive the draft tournament schedule as well as LOTS more information. We do not predict many changes to scheduling/logistics from last year, so if you want to get a good idea of how things will be structured this year, check out the PVI2023 schedule.
Big things to do now:
Please look over your team’s line on the Team Status spreadsheet and take care of missing items… immediately. One very important item: I am not exaggerating when I say that if your roster doesn’t have at least a chaperone added in the next 5-7 days, there is a very real chance your team will not be able to compete. The teams listed below are missing at least one item and are currently not cleared to play.
Please make sure all of your game scores are reported into ScoreReporter.Open Team here. Female-Matching teams here. Anyone can add teams and scores to the system. The more data that’s in this system the better. It’s a massive help in ranking teams as accurately as possible coming into the event.
Housing fees ($50 per team) are due in Easthampton by 5/1. This is a very firm deadline. If we don’t receive your team’s payment by then, your team will not be provided housing. Information on how to make a payment is online here.
I am here to help. Please do not put off completing all of the required tasks.
