Category Archives: General Tournament Updates

May 14th Update

We’re less than 4 days away from first pull! Here are today’s updates:

The tournament program is now online here. Please take the time to read it over in detail. We will not be providing paper copies of the program.

The tournament banner has been built!

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.

TeamDivision# of unpaid players
ArgonFemale-Matching 1
Golden-FringantsFemale-Matching 2
Green Mountain GirlsFemale-Matching 3
Northampton JV1Female-Matching 1
BardOpen 2
Brown MSOpen 17
Champlain Valley UnionOpen 4
GoldenOpen 5
Lexington JVOpen 2
MontpelierOpen 1
Northampton VOpen 1
Teams that need to pay player dues as of 5/14/24 @ 10am

Final schedule + Lots more info

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.)

Draft divisions and rankings

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.

FM = Female-Matching, O = Open

TeamDivisionCityState/ Province5/8 – Draft Ranking
OrigineFemale-MatchingQuébecQCFM-A-01
Northampton VFemale-MatchingNorthamptonMAFM-A-02
Amherst VFemale-MatchingAmherstMAFM-A-03
Wicked WestFemale-MatchingOttawaONFM-A-04
TitaneFemale-MatchingMontréalQCFM-A-05
CimesFemale-MatchingMontérégieQCFM-A-06
Lincoln-SudburyFemale-MatchingSudburyMAFM-A-07
Lexington VFemale-MatchingLexingtonMAFM-A-08
ArlingtonFemale-MatchingArlingtonMAFM-B-01
Green Mountain GirlsFemale-MatchingMontpelierVTFM-B-02
Forest CityFemale-MatchingPortlandMEFM-B-03
WWPNFemale-MatchingPlainsboroNJFM-B-04
Wicked EastFemale-MatchingOttawaONFM-B-05
SomervilleFemale-MatchingSomervilleMAFM-B-06
Northampton JV1Female-MatchingNorthamptonMAFM-B-07
Northampton JV2Female-MatchingNorthamptonMAFM-B-08
BeaconFemale-MatchingNew YorkNYFM-B-09
ArgonFemale-MatchingMontréalQCFM-B-10
Golden-FringantsFemale-MatchingSherbrooke+GatineauQCFM-B-11
Amherst JVFemale-MatchingAmherstMAFM-B-12
Lexington VOpenLexingtonMAO-A-01
ArlingtonOpenArlingtonMAO-A-02
Montclair VOpenMontclairNJO-A-03
Somerville VOpenSomervilleMAO-A-04
Four Rivers VOpenGreenfieldMAO-A-05
Columbia VOpenMaplewoodNJO-A-06
Westfield AOpenWestfieldNJO-A-07
Concord CarlisleOpenConcordMAO-A-08
Needham VOpenNeedhamMAO-A-09
XavierOpenMiddletownCTO-A-10
IgniteOpenOttawaONO-A-11
ÉchoOpenMontréalQCO-A-12
OrigineOpenQuébecQCO-A-13
TitaneOpenMontréalQCO-A-14
Brooklyn TechOpenBrooklynNYO-A-15
Amherst BxVOpenAmherstMAO-A-16
Northampton VOpenNorthamptonMAO-B-01
Champlain Valley UnionOpenHinesburgVTO-B-02
MontpelierOpenMontpelierVTO-B-03
Burr and BurtonOpenManchesterVTO-B-04
WellesleyOpenWellesleyMAO-B-05
Forest CityOpenPortlandMEO-B-06
BardOpenNew YorkNYO-B-07
Columbia JVOpenMaplewoodNJO-B-08
Cape ElizabethOpenCape ElizabethMEO-B-09
MiddletownOpenMiddletownCTO-B-10
Lincoln SudburyOpenSudburyMAO-B-11
Amherst BxJVAOpenAmherstMAO-B-12
Monument MountainOpenGreat BarringtonMAO-B-13
CimesOpenMontérégieQCO-B-14
ScarsdaleOpenScarsdaleNYO-B-15
ScorchOpenOttawaONO-B-16
BostonOpenBostonMAO-C-01
Acton-BoxboroughOpenActonMAO-C-02
BeaconOpenNew YorkNYO-C-03
Needham JVOpenNeedhamMAO-C-04
FalmouthOpenFalmouthMEO-C-05
PVPAOpenSouth HadleyMAO-C-06
Brown MSOpenNewtonMAO-C-07
BlazeOpenOttawaONO-C-08
ArgonOpenMontréalQCO-C-09
GoldenOpenGatineauQCO-C-10
Lexington JVOpenLexingtonMAO-C-11
Montclair JVOpenMontclairNJO-C-12
Northampton JVOpenNorthamptonMAO-C-13
Amherst MSOpenAmherstMAO-C-14
5/8 draft of divisions and ranking

DRAFT Divisions

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:

  • Have you added ALL of your game scores to scorereport.net?
  • If you think your team should be in a different division, which team(s) do you think you should swap with?

F-M = Female-Matching, O = Open

TeamDivisionCityState/Province4/30 – Draft Div
Amherst VFemale-MatchingAmherstMAFM – A
CimesFemale-MatchingMontĂ©rĂ©gieQCFM – A
Lexington VFemale-MatchingLexingtonMAFM – A
Lincoln-SudburyFemale-MatchingSudburyMAFM – A
Northampton VFemale-MatchingNorthamptonMAFM – A
OrigineFemale-MatchingQuĂ©becQCFM – A
TitaneFemale-MatchingMontrĂ©alQCFM – A
Wicked WestFemale-MatchingOttawaONFM – A
Amherst JVFemale-MatchingAmherstMAFM – B
ArgonFemale-MatchingMontrĂ©alQCFM – B
ArlingtonFemale-MatchingArlingtonMAFM – B
BeaconFemale-MatchingNew YorkNYFM – B
Forest CityFemale-MatchingPortlandMEFM – B
Golden-FringantsFemale-MatchingSherbrooke+GatineauQCFM – B
Green Mountain GirlsFemale-MatchingMontpelierVTFM – B
Northampton JV1Female-MatchingNorthamptonMAFM – B
Northampton JV2Female-MatchingNorthamptonMAFM – B
SomervilleFemale-MatchingSomervilleMAFM – B
Wicked EastFemale-MatchingOttawaONFM – B
WWPNFemale-MatchingPlainsboroNJFM – B
Amherst BxVOpenAmherstMAO – A
ArlingtonOpenArlingtonMAO – A
Brooklyn TechOpenBrooklynNYO – A
Columbia VOpenMaplewoodNJO – A
Concord CarlisleOpenConcordMAO – A
ÉchoOpenMontrĂ©alQCO – A
Four Rivers VOpenGreenfieldMAO – A
IgniteOpenOttawaONO – A
Lexington VOpenLexingtonMAO – A
Montclair VOpenMontclairNJO – A
Needham VOpenNeedhamMAO – A
OrigineOpenQuĂ©becQCO – A
Somerville VOpenSomervilleMAO – A
TitaneOpenMontrĂ©alQCO – A
Westfield AOpenWestfieldNJO – A
XavierOpenMiddletownCTO – A
Amherst BxJVAOpenAmherstMAO – B
BardOpenNew YorkNYO – B
Burr and BurtonOpenManchesterVTO – B
Cape ElizabethOpenCape ElizabethMEO – B
Champlain Valley UnionOpenHinesburgVTO – B
CimesOpenMontĂ©rĂ©gieQCO – B
FalmouthOpenFalmouthMEO – B
Forest CityOpenPortlandMEO – B
Lincoln SudburyOpenSudburyMAO – B
MiddletownOpenMiddletownCTO – B
MontpelierOpenMontpelierVTO – B
Northampton VOpenNorthamptonMAO – B
PVPAOpenSouth HadleyMAO – B
ScarsdaleOpenScarsdaleNYO – B
ScorchOpenOttawaONO – B
WellesleyOpenWellesleyMAO – B
Acton-BoxboroughOpenActonMAO – C
Amherst MSOpenAmherstMAO – C
ArgonOpenMontrĂ©alQCO – C
BeaconOpenNew YorkNYO – C
BlazeOpenOttawaONO – C
BostonOpenBostonMAO – C
Brown MSOpenNewtonMAO – C
Columbia JVOpenMaplewoodNJO – C
GoldenOpenGatineauQCO – C
Lexington JVOpenLexingtonMAO – C
Montclair JVOpenMontclairNJO – C
Monument MountainOpenGreat BarringtonMAO – C
Needham JVOpenNeedhamMAO – C
Northampton JVOpenNorthamptonMAO – C

Team currently not cleared to play + more info

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.

Team currently not cleared to play:

TeamDivisionCityState/ Province
BeaconOpenNew YorkNY
Cape ElizabethOpenCape ElizabethME
Champlain Valley UnionOpenHinesburgVT
ÉchoOpenMontréalQC
Forest CityFemale-MatchingPortlandME
Forest CityOpenPortlandME
Four Rivers VOpenGreenfieldMA
GoldenOpenGatineauQC
Golden-FringantsFemale-MatchingSherbrooke+GatineauQC
Lexington JVOpenLexingtonMA
Lexington VFemale-MatchingLexingtonMA
Lexington VOpenLexingtonMA
Monument MountainOpenGreat BarringtonMA
OrigineFemale-MatchingQuébecQC
OrigineOpenQuébecQC
PVPAOpenSouth HadleyMA
ScarsdaleOpenScarsdaleNY
Somerville VOpenSomervilleMA
Teams not cleared to play as of 4/30/24

Missing items that need to be completed!

Hello everyone,

First pull will be in less than 22 days!

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.

– Josh & Lee

The fields are looking great!

Teams missing at least one item:

TeamDivisionCityState/ Prov.
Amherst JVFemale-MatchingAmherstMA
Forest CityFemale-MatchingPortlandME
Golden-FringantsFemale-MatchingSherbrooke+GatineauQC
Lexington VFemale-MatchingLexingtonMA
Lincoln-SudburyFemale-MatchingSudburyMA
Northampton JV1Female-MatchingNorthamptonMA
Northampton VFemale-MatchingNorthamptonMA
OrigineFemale-MatchingQuébecQC
Acton-BoxboroughOpenActonMA
BeaconOpenNew YorkNY
Brown MSOpenNewtonMA
Cape ElizabethOpenCape ElizabethME
Champlain Valley UnionOpenHinesburgVT
Concord CarlisleOpenConcordMA
ÉchoOpenMontréalQC
FalmouthOpenFalmouthME
Forest CityOpenPortlandME
GoldenOpenGatineauQC
Lexington JVOpenLexingtonMA
Lexington VOpenLexingtonMA
Lincoln SudburyOpenSudburyMA
Monument MountainOpenGreat BarringtonMA
Needham JVOpenNeedhamMA
OrigineOpenQuébecQC
PVPAOpenSouth HadleyMA
ScarsdaleOpenScarsdaleNY
Somerville VOpenSomervilleMA

Do you have a cleared chaperone? Missing items update

Please make sure you either already have a USAU-cleared chaperone, or you have at least one person who is currently going through the process. This can take a while and can’t be done quickly. Please do not wait. Chaperone information is online on the paperwork page.

Every team can check the status of their tasks/items right here.

Here are important items that need to be completed immediately.

Teams that need to send in the tournament fee:

TeamDivision
Amherst JVFemale-Matching
Forest CityFemale-Matching
Forest CityOpen
Lexington JVOpen
Lexington VFemale-Matching
Lexington VOpen

Teams that have not yet started their online USAU roster:

TeamDivision
Acton-BoxboroughOpen
Amherst VFemale-Matching
BardOpen
BeaconOpen
Columbia VOpen
Forest CityFemale-Matching
Forest CityOpen
Golden-FringantsFemale-Matching
Monument MountainOpen
Northampton JVOpen
Northampton JV1Female-Matching
Northampton JV2Female-Matching
ScarsdaleOpen

Teams that need to fill out the Dinner, Housing, Roster Prep, Div Form:

TeamDivision
Acton-BoxboroughOpen
Amherst JVFemale-Matching
Amherst VFemale-Matching
BeaconFemale-Matching
BeaconOpen
BlazeOpen
Brooklyn TechOpen
IgniteOpen
Needham JVOpen
Northampton VFemale-Matching
Northampton VOpen
ScorchOpen
Wicked EastFemale-Matching
Wicked WestFemale-Matching

Please complete these items ASAP.

And again: Please do not wait to start your USAU chaperone clearance process.

Dinner, Housing, Rostering, and Rankings Form

All teams need to fill out the Dinner, Housing, Roster Prep, and Division Request Form by April 6th.

We have space for four more female-matching teams and one open team. Please fill out the bid form ASAP if you’d like to snag one of the spots! We’re at 20 female matching teams and 47 open teams spanning 9 states and provinces!

The following teams need to submit their payment. Information on how to send in payments is online here.

TeamDivision
Amherst JVFemale-Matching
ArgonFemale-Matching
Forest CityFemale-Matching
Lexington VFemale-Matching
AlbanyOpen
ArgonOpen
Forest CityOpen
Lexington JVOpen
Lexington VOpen
Payment needed as of 3/26/24