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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.
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 |
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
Team | Division | City | State/ Province | 5/8 – Draft Ranking |
Origine | Female-Matching | Québec | QC | FM-A-01 |
Northampton V | Female-Matching | Northampton | MA | FM-A-02 |
Amherst V | Female-Matching | Amherst | MA | FM-A-03 |
Wicked West | Female-Matching | Ottawa | ON | FM-A-04 |
Titane | Female-Matching | Montréal | QC | FM-A-05 |
Cimes | Female-Matching | Montérégie | QC | FM-A-06 |
Lincoln-Sudbury | Female-Matching | Sudbury | MA | FM-A-07 |
Lexington V | Female-Matching | Lexington | MA | FM-A-08 |
Arlington | Female-Matching | Arlington | MA | FM-B-01 |
Green Mountain Girls | Female-Matching | Montpelier | VT | FM-B-02 |
Forest City | Female-Matching | Portland | ME | FM-B-03 |
WWPN | Female-Matching | Plainsboro | NJ | FM-B-04 |
Wicked East | Female-Matching | Ottawa | ON | FM-B-05 |
Somerville | Female-Matching | Somerville | MA | FM-B-06 |
Northampton JV1 | Female-Matching | Northampton | MA | FM-B-07 |
Northampton JV2 | Female-Matching | Northampton | MA | FM-B-08 |
Beacon | Female-Matching | New York | NY | FM-B-09 |
Argon | Female-Matching | Montréal | QC | FM-B-10 |
Golden-Fringants | Female-Matching | Sherbrooke+Gatineau | QC | FM-B-11 |
Amherst JV | Female-Matching | Amherst | MA | FM-B-12 |
Lexington V | Open | Lexington | MA | O-A-01 |
Arlington | Open | Arlington | MA | O-A-02 |
Montclair V | Open | Montclair | NJ | O-A-03 |
Somerville V | Open | Somerville | MA | O-A-04 |
Four Rivers V | Open | Greenfield | MA | O-A-05 |
Columbia V | Open | Maplewood | NJ | O-A-06 |
Westfield A | Open | Westfield | NJ | O-A-07 |
Concord Carlisle | Open | Concord | MA | O-A-08 |
Needham V | Open | Needham | MA | O-A-09 |
Xavier | Open | Middletown | CT | O-A-10 |
Ignite | Open | Ottawa | ON | O-A-11 |
Écho | Open | Montréal | QC | O-A-12 |
Origine | Open | Québec | QC | O-A-13 |
Titane | Open | Montréal | QC | O-A-14 |
Brooklyn Tech | Open | Brooklyn | NY | O-A-15 |
Amherst BxV | Open | Amherst | MA | O-A-16 |
Northampton V | Open | Northampton | MA | O-B-01 |
Champlain Valley Union | Open | Hinesburg | VT | O-B-02 |
Montpelier | Open | Montpelier | VT | O-B-03 |
Burr and Burton | Open | Manchester | VT | O-B-04 |
Wellesley | Open | Wellesley | MA | O-B-05 |
Forest City | Open | Portland | ME | O-B-06 |
Bard | Open | New York | NY | O-B-07 |
Columbia JV | Open | Maplewood | NJ | O-B-08 |
Cape Elizabeth | Open | Cape Elizabeth | ME | O-B-09 |
Middletown | Open | Middletown | CT | O-B-10 |
Lincoln Sudbury | Open | Sudbury | MA | O-B-11 |
Amherst BxJVA | Open | Amherst | MA | O-B-12 |
Monument Mountain | Open | Great Barrington | MA | O-B-13 |
Cimes | Open | Montérégie | QC | O-B-14 |
Scarsdale | Open | Scarsdale | NY | O-B-15 |
Scorch | Open | Ottawa | ON | O-B-16 |
Boston | Open | Boston | MA | O-C-01 |
Acton-Boxborough | Open | Acton | MA | O-C-02 |
Beacon | Open | New York | NY | O-C-03 |
Needham JV | Open | Needham | MA | O-C-04 |
Falmouth | Open | Falmouth | ME | O-C-05 |
PVPA | Open | South Hadley | MA | O-C-06 |
Brown MS | Open | Newton | MA | O-C-07 |
Blaze | Open | Ottawa | ON | O-C-08 |
Argon | Open | Montréal | QC | O-C-09 |
Golden | Open | Gatineau | QC | O-C-10 |
Lexington JV | Open | Lexington | MA | O-C-11 |
Montclair JV | Open | Montclair | NJ | O-C-12 |
Northampton JV | Open | Northampton | MA | O-C-13 |
Amherst MS | Open | Amherst | MA | O-C-14 |
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
Team | Division | City | State/Province | 4/30 – Draft Div |
Amherst V | Female-Matching | Amherst | MA | FM – A |
Cimes | Female-Matching | MontĂ©rĂ©gie | QC | FM – A |
Lexington V | Female-Matching | Lexington | MA | FM – A |
Lincoln-Sudbury | Female-Matching | Sudbury | MA | FM – A |
Northampton V | Female-Matching | Northampton | MA | FM – A |
Origine | Female-Matching | QuĂ©bec | QC | FM – A |
Titane | Female-Matching | MontrĂ©al | QC | FM – A |
Wicked West | Female-Matching | Ottawa | ON | FM – A |
Amherst JV | Female-Matching | Amherst | MA | FM – B |
Argon | Female-Matching | MontrĂ©al | QC | FM – B |
Arlington | Female-Matching | Arlington | MA | FM – B |
Beacon | Female-Matching | New York | NY | FM – B |
Forest City | Female-Matching | Portland | ME | FM – B |
Golden-Fringants | Female-Matching | Sherbrooke+Gatineau | QC | FM – B |
Green Mountain Girls | Female-Matching | Montpelier | VT | FM – B |
Northampton JV1 | Female-Matching | Northampton | MA | FM – B |
Northampton JV2 | Female-Matching | Northampton | MA | FM – B |
Somerville | Female-Matching | Somerville | MA | FM – B |
Wicked East | Female-Matching | Ottawa | ON | FM – B |
WWPN | Female-Matching | Plainsboro | NJ | FM – B |
Amherst BxV | Open | Amherst | MA | O – A |
Arlington | Open | Arlington | MA | O – A |
Brooklyn Tech | Open | Brooklyn | NY | O – A |
Columbia V | Open | Maplewood | NJ | O – A |
Concord Carlisle | Open | Concord | MA | O – A |
Écho | Open | MontrĂ©al | QC | O – A |
Four Rivers V | Open | Greenfield | MA | O – A |
Ignite | Open | Ottawa | ON | O – A |
Lexington V | Open | Lexington | MA | O – A |
Montclair V | Open | Montclair | NJ | O – A |
Needham V | Open | Needham | MA | O – A |
Origine | Open | QuĂ©bec | QC | O – A |
Somerville V | Open | Somerville | MA | O – A |
Titane | Open | MontrĂ©al | QC | O – A |
Westfield A | Open | Westfield | NJ | O – A |
Xavier | Open | Middletown | CT | O – A |
Amherst BxJVA | Open | Amherst | MA | O – B |
Bard | Open | New York | NY | O – B |
Burr and Burton | Open | Manchester | VT | O – B |
Cape Elizabeth | Open | Cape Elizabeth | ME | O – B |
Champlain Valley Union | Open | Hinesburg | VT | O – B |
Cimes | Open | MontĂ©rĂ©gie | QC | O – B |
Falmouth | Open | Falmouth | ME | O – B |
Forest City | Open | Portland | ME | O – B |
Lincoln Sudbury | Open | Sudbury | MA | O – B |
Middletown | Open | Middletown | CT | O – B |
Montpelier | Open | Montpelier | VT | O – B |
Northampton V | Open | Northampton | MA | O – B |
PVPA | Open | South Hadley | MA | O – B |
Scarsdale | Open | Scarsdale | NY | O – B |
Scorch | Open | Ottawa | ON | O – B |
Wellesley | Open | Wellesley | MA | O – B |
Acton-Boxborough | Open | Acton | MA | O – C |
Amherst MS | Open | Amherst | MA | O – C |
Argon | Open | MontrĂ©al | QC | O – C |
Beacon | Open | New York | NY | O – C |
Blaze | Open | Ottawa | ON | O – C |
Boston | Open | Boston | MA | O – C |
Brown MS | Open | Newton | MA | O – C |
Columbia JV | Open | Maplewood | NJ | O – C |
Golden | Open | Gatineau | QC | O – C |
Lexington JV | Open | Lexington | MA | O – C |
Montclair JV | Open | Montclair | NJ | O – C |
Monument Mountain | Open | Great Barrington | MA | O – C |
Needham JV | Open | Needham | MA | O – C |
Northampton JV | Open | Northampton | MA | O – 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:
Team | Division | City | State/ Province |
Beacon | Open | New York | NY |
Cape Elizabeth | Open | Cape Elizabeth | ME |
Champlain Valley Union | Open | Hinesburg | VT |
Écho | Open | Montréal | QC |
Forest City | Female-Matching | Portland | ME |
Forest City | Open | Portland | ME |
Four Rivers V | Open | Greenfield | MA |
Golden | Open | Gatineau | QC |
Golden-Fringants | Female-Matching | Sherbrooke+Gatineau | QC |
Lexington JV | Open | Lexington | MA |
Lexington V | Female-Matching | Lexington | MA |
Lexington V | Open | Lexington | MA |
Monument Mountain | Open | Great Barrington | MA |
Origine | Female-Matching | Québec | QC |
Origine | Open | Québec | QC |
PVPA | Open | South Hadley | MA |
Scarsdale | Open | Scarsdale | NY |
Somerville V | Open | Somerville | MA |
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:
Team | Division | City | State/ Prov. |
Amherst JV | Female-Matching | Amherst | MA |
Forest City | Female-Matching | Portland | ME |
Golden-Fringants | Female-Matching | Sherbrooke+Gatineau | QC |
Lexington V | Female-Matching | Lexington | MA |
Lincoln-Sudbury | Female-Matching | Sudbury | MA |
Northampton JV1 | Female-Matching | Northampton | MA |
Northampton V | Female-Matching | Northampton | MA |
Origine | Female-Matching | Québec | QC |
Acton-Boxborough | Open | Acton | MA |
Beacon | Open | New York | NY |
Brown MS | Open | Newton | MA |
Cape Elizabeth | Open | Cape Elizabeth | ME |
Champlain Valley Union | Open | Hinesburg | VT |
Concord Carlisle | Open | Concord | MA |
Écho | Open | Montréal | QC |
Falmouth | Open | Falmouth | ME |
Forest City | Open | Portland | ME |
Golden | Open | Gatineau | QC |
Lexington JV | Open | Lexington | MA |
Lexington V | Open | Lexington | MA |
Lincoln Sudbury | Open | Sudbury | MA |
Monument Mountain | Open | Great Barrington | MA |
Needham JV | Open | Needham | MA |
Origine | Open | Québec | QC |
PVPA | Open | South Hadley | MA |
Scarsdale | Open | Scarsdale | NY |
Somerville V | Open | Somerville | MA |
Missing items update
Here are all of the teams that currently need to complete at least one item:
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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:
Team | Division |
Amherst JV | Female-Matching |
Forest City | Female-Matching |
Forest City | Open |
Lexington JV | Open |
Lexington V | Female-Matching |
Lexington V | Open |
Teams that have not yet started their online USAU roster:
Team | Division |
Acton-Boxborough | Open |
Amherst V | Female-Matching |
Bard | Open |
Beacon | Open |
Columbia V | Open |
Forest City | Female-Matching |
Forest City | Open |
Golden-Fringants | Female-Matching |
Monument Mountain | Open |
Northampton JV | Open |
Northampton JV1 | Female-Matching |
Northampton JV2 | Female-Matching |
Scarsdale | Open |
Teams that need to fill out the Dinner, Housing, Roster Prep, Div Form:
Team | Division |
Acton-Boxborough | Open |
Amherst JV | Female-Matching |
Amherst V | Female-Matching |
Beacon | Female-Matching |
Beacon | Open |
Blaze | Open |
Brooklyn Tech | Open |
Ignite | Open |
Needham JV | Open |
Northampton V | Female-Matching |
Northampton V | Open |
Scorch | Open |
Wicked East | Female-Matching |
Wicked West | Female-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.
Team | Division |
Amherst JV | Female-Matching |
Argon | Female-Matching |
Forest City | Female-Matching |
Lexington V | Female-Matching |
Albany | Open |
Argon | Open |
Forest City | Open |
Lexington JV | Open |
Lexington V | Open |