All teams attending the Fall Youth Invitational this Saturday must check in at Tournament Central (TC) before the 8am coaches and captains meeting, which will also occur at TC near field 5.
Tips for how to fly through check in:
The only person that is required to be at check in is a team’s chaperone.
Please show up at TC by 7:45am at the absolute latest so you’ll have time to check in before the 8am coaches and captains meeting.
The chaperone needs to be prepared to show us their team’s medical authorization forms. Showing us digital scans is fine. We do not collect these forms.
The chaperone must bring their cell phone to check in. There will be a quick cell phone-based task for chaperones to complete at check in.
8:00am = A quick coaches and captains meeting at TC.
Here’s a bit of information about the 18 teams attending the 1st annual Fall Youth Invitational happening on October 25th at the Oxbow Marina in Northampton!
Amherst – Middle School: Open signup from our Intramural league, never played together as a team. Mix of 6th, 7th, 8th graders.
Four Rivers – Middle School: This is a young team with lots of beginner players, looking forward to catching the ultimate vibe!
Hopkinton – Middle School: Hop Middle School Ulti team is all 6th and 8th graders. We have a ton of fun and a ton of athleticism. We have been working hard on our game!! Our current team shirts have a picture of a Hurricane – we are the Hopkinton Hurricanes!
Vermont – Middle School: An excited bunch of Ultimate-playing Vermont middle schoolers.
Bard – Youth Female-Matching: Our team is fun, competitive, and diverse. We love to play frisbee, but we also love to meet new people, and make new friends through the sport.
Boston – Youth Female-Matching: Boston’s first high school girls team! (That we know of.). We made our debut at last spring’s PVI and are excited to return!
Four Rivers – Youth Female-Matching: Fast, playful, fierce and in sync — this team is like a raft of otters with a disc!
Lexington – Youth Female-Matching: We are a spirited and competitive team that loves to hustle on and off the field. Our mascot is a goose because geese travel in flocks, always leading and supporting one another during long flights.
Northampton – Youth Female-Matching: A great group of awesome ultimate players!
Vermont – Youth Female-Matching: We are a brand new team made up of players of all levels from all over Vermont. We are excited to learn and compete in this tournament. Many of the players will be playing in a tournament for the first time!
Big A – Youth Open: We are a passionate and friendly bunch of players that are hoping to have LOTS of fun!! we haven’t played a lot together as a team, but all have lots of previous ultimate experience.
Boston – Youth Open: We’re a citywide team from Boston, always happy for a chance to play on nice fields and meet other ultimate players!
BUDA U17 – Youth Open: BUDA U17 is a competitive club team that is focused on developing high school players who want to develop their frisbee skills while making friends across the state of MA. BUDA U17 program has been around since 2016. This year, BUDA U17 finished second in YCC (Youth club championship) tournament playing against some of the best teams in the country, the highest we have ever finished in the program’s history.
Four Rivers – Youth Open: This team has great spirit! To quote one of last year’s captains, this team loves to dig something up that nobody thought was going to be up.
Lexington – Youth Open: This team is very veteran-heavy, as we only graduated three players from last year’s team. They’re a talented team looking to make a name for themselves right out of the gate.
Lincoln-Sudbury – Youth Open: A hardworking team that puts spirit as our top priority. We try to focus on helping our new players understand the game and love the sport. Overall a fun team that emphasizes enjoying frisbee and playing as a team.
Vermont – Youth Open: 1st year team with a highly mixed skill level. Our goal is to develop players both in ultimate and as leaders and teammates. Ages range from 8th grade to high school seniors.
Xavier – Youth Open: This is a mixed team with Varsity players down to developmental. We are a fall intramural and using this to hopefully solidify the love of Ultimate in new players and give returning players a fall option.
Lee and I are so excited to see y’all this Saturday! Everything is on track for an amazing day of ultimate!
PLEASE make sure you drive 15mph or slower on Island Rd. This is the last road you’re on before you get to the fields. Please.
Your team chaperone must check in at tournament central (over near fields 1-5) BEFORE the coaches and captains’ meeting. At check in we’ll verify you have your medical authorization forms and hand off some important items.
Please remember that all teams need to send at least one representative to the coaches and captains’ meeting which is taking place at 8am at tournament central. The meeting should last around 5 minutes. Please do not show up before 7am.
The event schedule is online here. The event program can be found here. Please take a few minutes to look each item over in detail and let me know ASAP if you have any questions.
The field map is online on the field map tab of the schedule spreadsheet. Please note that the Middle School and Female-Matching divisions will be playing on fields 1 through 5 and the Open division will be playing on fields 6 through 9. Yes, there is a distance between the two groups of fields. The main tournament central tent, along with merch, is over near fields 1-5. There will be a secondary tournament tent over near fields 6-9.
Please bring your own water bottles and containers. We will have lots of water on hand for you to use to fill your own bottles, but we won’t be providing cups or bottles.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions: josh@pvinvite.org
In exciting news, Bard (NYC) is joining the Female-Matching division! This necessitated a schedule update in the Female-Matching division. The schedules for the Middle School and Open divisions have not been changed.
Bid Form: Right here Website: PVInvite.org Date: May 16th and 17th, 2026 Divisions (12-16 teams per): Youth Female-Matching A, Youth Female-Matching B, Youth Open A , Youth Open B, Youth Open C Location: Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA Cost: $675 before March 1st, $725 after March 1st (Free if you fly in!) USAU Sanctioned: No HSNI Qualifier: Yes! The PVI will be an HSNI qualifying event! You can learn more here. Cleared Chaperone Required: Yes (Read more here) Housing Support: Yes ($50 housing fee per team – for teams offered housing) Saturday Night Dinner/Social: Yes Lined fields: Yes Guaranteed # of games: 5, although almost all teams will get 6. PVI2025 Drone Footage:Right here
If you attended this year’s PVI in any capacity, we’d love to receive your feedback. You can send it in using this short form.
We have also begun exploring the idea of running a fall PVI sometime in early September or early October of this year at the Oxbow in Northampton, MA. This event would be in addition to PVI2026, which will be taking place on May 16th and 17th, 2026.
We’re in the very early planning stages and would like to hear from anyone who has any interest in attending a fall PVI. This event could have one and two day-long divisions, possible ranging from Middle School through High School. Female-Matching, Open, and Mixed divisions are all on the table.
Please fill out this short survey if you have any interest in attending a fall PVI.
Thanks once again for making the PVI2025 so magical! We absolutely loved hosting y’all!
We’re already at work planning for PVI2026 (May 16th and 18th, 2026!) and one of the ways you can help improve the event is by sending in your feedback using this form. We’d love feedback from anyone that attended the event in any capacity: players, coaches, support crew, parents, spectators… anyone that was there! Please share the link with your whole community!
Thanks to Karin’s super hard work, all of the written spirit comments we received on spirit scoresheets were typed out. We just finished emailing those comments out to all teams. As always, you can check the complete spirit score standings here.
Here are photos of everything that was in lost and found. If you see something you’d really like to get back, please email Noel (noelraley@yahoo.com). Items not claimed by Monday, 5/26 will be donated.
As always, it’s hard even for us to fully understand all the awesome ways the PVI comes together. One of our favorite ways to make the attempt is to watch flyover footage:
Thank you all for every last bit of joy, passion, energy, community, and connection you brought to the Pioneer Valley Invitational this year. I literally catch my breath when I think of the world you all create when you’re out on the Oxbow fields.
While the event is fresh in your mind, we’d appreciate it if you took a minute to fill out the Post-Tournament Survey. We’d love feedback from anyone that attended the event, or worked with any team that attended. The more feedback we get the better! Share this link with your whole team!
All game and spirit results are now online in the tournament spreadsheet. The spirit score results are also posted below. If you see anything that looks off, please let us know. All game results have also been posted on ScoreReport.net: Female-Matching games, Open games — Thanks to David Thompson for this work! He’d LOVE it if people could post the rest of their games this season on the system! He also wanted me to pass on word that the rankings tomorrow are likely the most accurate of the year. He’s more than happy to help and answer questions about the ScoreReport.net system: dthompso@hotchkiss.org
Congratulations to the PVI2025 spirit award winners!
FM-A: Titane
FM-B: Cimes
Open A: Stuyvesant
Open B: Cimes
Open C: Argon
Please email Lee (lee@technologyventuresinc.com) where you’d like your spirit award plaque sent and he’ll get it in the mail ASAP.
We’d love to see your tournament media! Email us links, or send media directly to josh@pvinvite.org. You can also upload media to us directly at this Dropbox link.
You can order PVI2025 merchandise directly from VC until May 25th right here!
Here are photos of everything that was in lost and found. If you see something you’d really like to get back, please email Lee (lee@technologyventuresinc.com). Items not claimed by Monday, 5/26 will be donated.
Mark your calendar: PVI2026 will take place on May 16th and 17th, 2026!
Keep sidelines clear. ALL spectators, and especially chairs, need to be at least 7 yards from any sideline. Players not in the game should also stay back from the sideline as to not obstruct play. Please clear lines immediately when asked.
Keep reporting your game scores promptly to Karin at 617-797-5627.
All teams are encouraged to have a spirit circle before their games. Given that no team plays games in back to back rounds today, it is always possible to make a spirit circle happen. Greet each other. Meet each other. Learn each other’s names. Talk about what you’re looking forward to. Talk about your concerns. Make a plan for how to have discussions in the game.
Our once reliable texting system is not behaving, so we’re going to fall back to email. We don’t expect to send out many updates via email tomorrow, but please have your key leaders check their email at least once per round.
There is no awards ceremony. Trophies will be awarded to each team that earns one immediately after their last game.
There will be a closing ceremony at 5:20pm at tournament central.
Please, please, please do not park in “creative” places. Make sure you park where you are directed and that you stay within cones and set/staked boundaries.
The following teams must submit their Saturday spirit scoresheet before their first game begins tomorrow. Please hand your sheet off to Karin at the tournament central tent.
