We’re now up to 16 female-matching and 39 open teams spanning 8 states and provinces!

It is very likely that we will hit our cap of 72 teams!

Remember that teams are admitted on a rolling basis, so don’t wait to apply if you’d like to join the fun this spring! The online bid form is here.

We’re now up to 15 female-matching and 34 open teams spanning 8 states and provinces!

It is very likely that we will hit our cap of 72 teams!

Remember that teams are admitted on a rolling basis, so don’t wait to apply if you’d like to join the fun this spring! The online bid form is here.

Also, VC Ultimate wants to hear from you! Complete their survey for a chance to win a $50 VC gift card!

We’re now up to 12 female-matching and 27 open teams spanning 8 states and provinces!

Remember that teams are admitted on a rolling basis, so don’t wait to apply if you’d like to join the fun this spring! The online bid form is here.

Also, VC Ultimate wants to hear from you! Complete their survey for a chance to win a $50 VC gift card!

We’re now up to 28 bids from 7 states and provinces! We are well on our way to filling up, so make sure you get your bid in soon! The bid submission form is online here.

Also, VC Ultimate would LOVE to hear from the PVI community through this survey. If you complete the survey you’ll have a chance to win a $50 VC gift card! Here’s what VC has to say:

Thanks for taking the time to complete this short survey! We are proud of the work with do with the Pioneer Valley Invitational, and we’d love to see more teams in VC uniforms. Your insight is appreciated!

Please feel free to keep your submission anonymous, or leave your email for the chance to win a $50 gift card for the PVI 2024 VC Merch Tent!

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Bids have been rolling in for the Pioneer Valley Invitational 2024! So far 20 bids have come in from 6 states and provinces!

Teams are admitted on a rolling basis.

Bids can be submitted online right here.

We are excited to announce that bids are now being accepted for the 9th Annual Pioneer Valley Invitational!

Website: PVInvite.org
Date: May 18th and 19th, 2024
Divisions (12-16 teams per): Youth Female-Matching A, Youth Female-Matching B, Youth Open A , Youth Open B
Location: Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA
Cost: $550 (Free if you fly in!)
USAU Sanctioned: Yes
Lined fields: Yes
Guaranteed # of games: 5, although most teams will get 6.

Team will be admitted on a rolling basis.

Here are some great reasons to attend the PVI2024!

And now a message from our AMAZING merchandise sponsor VC Ultimate!

The VC Ultimate team is proud to be back as the official merchandise sponsor for PVI2024! We’d love to see your team in VC uniforms at the tournament, too! To help make that happen, every team that submits a bid for PVI2024 will receive a free VC Card Membership. Just drop us a line at info@vcultimate.com and ask for a PVI VC Card Membership so you can start saving on everything from uniforms to discs to iconic custom VC Windbreakers!

VC jerseys are made from 100% recycled FlexLight material, rated UPF50 and a feature gender-free fits. Most importantly, VC is a company that puts community over profit and is ultimate’s most inclusive apparel provider, and has been helping making ordering uniforms easy since 1998. www.vcultimate.com

Here are some of the answers that have come in to the question, “Why should someone attend the Pioneer Valley Invitational?”

The 9th annual PVI will take place on May 18th and 19th, 2024!

We project we’ll be opening up the bid process in the early fall.

• PVI was a great tournament experience. Meeting all the other teams, some new, some old friends, and playing in the best-run tournament I’ve ever attended was fantastic. There’s competitiveness for team at all levels, and I love that the TDs prioritize spirit so highly. It’s a great environment, and I can’t wait to go next year!
• Great competitive play and friendly atmosphere
• It was the biggest ultimate tournament I have ever played in and it was so much fun
• It is the most fun you’ll ever have playing high school ultimate — guaranteed
• It’s awesome!! From food to organization, everything that I may need during a frisbee tournament, they have. Such fun competition and games!
• Do give youth the opportunity to play Competitive Ultimate Frisbee and play Canadian Teams as well as introduce and demonstrate the friendly, supportive Ultimate Frisbee Community.
• PVI is a fun and competitive tournament where people all across the country get to interact and learn different styles of playing. The spirit at this tournament is unmatched and has every team feeling great after a game!
• For the great atmosphere and the different types of player you encounter! Meeting new people from around the country and making new memories and friends:)
• It is a great opportunity to play new teams if you’re coming from outside of the Massachusetts area.
• Because it is a great opportunity to play teams from all over
• It’s a really great experience to see familiar faces and people from hundreds of miles away all playing ultimate in one place.
• It’s a well-run, super organized event with friendly volunteers and tons of ultimate to watch in a beautiful setting. When frisbees aren’t flying, the herons and osprey are!
• Great people, good games
• It is a really fun experience that allows you to meet new people from many places. I learned a lot about the game and it was a really interesting experience.
• Competition for various skill levels, great fields, fun social dinner event, great support for teams with food, water etc
• It’s a fun competitive environment for high schoolers to grow and gain experience in ultimate.
• to watch the team and support them
• it is really fun and you meet new people
• It is a fun event with lots of competitive frisbee
• The organization and event communication is absolutely top notch.
• It’s such a scene to behold, to have that many high school kids playing ultimate in one place. It’s inspiring.
• Top notch tournament. Exposure to great teams. Well run. Well located
  Excellent variety of competition for all levels of teams. Atmosphere is just so very “Ultimate” 🤗

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that made PVI2023 such a wonderful success!

Y’all are awesome.

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. If you see anything that looks off, please let us know. All game results are also in the process of being 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’s more than happy to help and answer questions about the ScoreReport.net system: dthompso@hotchkiss.org

Spirit awards winners: Please email me (josh@pvinvite.org) where you’d like your plaque sent and I’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 PVI2023 merchandise directly from VC until May 22nd right here!

Here is a photo of everything that was in lost and found. If you see something you’d really like to get back, please text Danielle at 413-250-3328. Items not claimed by Monday, 5/22 will be donated. Also, I found a set of Apple AirPods and a wallet that seems to belong to Piper. R. Email me (josh@pvinvite.org) to claim either.

Mark your calendar: PVI2024 will take place on May 18th and 19th, 2024!

See you on the field.

• Josh, Jonah, and Lee