Thank you, thank you, thank YOU, for making the PVI2024 so very special.
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
Congratulations to the PVI2024 spirit award winners!
FM-A: Cimes
FM-B: Amherst GxJV
Open A: Titane & Montclair V (Tie! Let Lee know what you’d like to do!)
Open B: Cimes & Burr and Burton (Tie! Let Lee know what you’d like to do!)
Open C: Montclair JV
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 PVI2024 merchandise directly from VC until May 26th 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, 5/27 will be donated. We also found one set of AirPods, an Apple pencil, and a portable battery (white).
Mark your calendar: PVI2025 will take place on May 17th and 18th, 2025!
To begin today’s captain’s meeting, we acknowledge that we play on fields which are part of the unceded land of the Pocumtuc. In recognition of this violent history, we commit ourselves today to being good stewards of these fields, to respect the space and keep it clean, and, most importantly, we commit to supporting indigenous people in our community in the places and spaces where they request it. You will see a collection bucket for donations to the Ohketeau – the only Native founded and Native run cultural center in all of Central and Western Massachusetts. Their work focuses on uplifting the voices of Native peoples and dismantling unjust frameworks, replacing them with accessibility, equity, dignity, and wellness for our Native communities. They provide a safe place for Native people to gather regularly and educate their youth in impactful ways – a value we share and wholeheartedly support. Please visit the main tent to learn more about Ohketeau and make a donation if you are so moved.
I’m Josh, I’m the co-TD. You *may* have received a few emails from me over the past few weeks, months… and possibly years.
We exist on a spectrum… over here is a sort of collective reality. Over here is what each of us wants reality to be. For me, for this weekend, I get to merge those two ends of the spectrum. This is the world I want.
Thank YOU for being here.
A HUGE thanks to the chairs that make this event happen:
Team Boxes: Amy Langdon
Traffic and Parking: Tom Nields Duffy & Liz Friedman
Water: Mike Filas
Merchandise: Noël Raley & Hannah Ray
Waste/Recycling: Sonia Bouvier and Kira Jewett
Main Tent Food: John Grossman
Fields: Lee Feldscher
Housing: Dawn Cordiero & Danielle Pedelaborde
Dinner and Party: Hannah Ray & Greg O’Donnell
Shopping: John Grossman & Scott and Maryellen Rousseau
USA Ultimate for their continued support, without which this event would not happen!
…and the army of volunteers that make the PVI possible. Please say thanks to all the volunteers you see… they are doing a ton of work! [Have them raise their hands, call them out.]
This is Karin: She’s the scorekeeper. Send her your data. Please write neatly. Text exact, specific data. She gets upwards of 700 data communications this weekend so… be clear! Text your results to her 617-797-5627.
My challenge to your whole crew: Aggressively thank these people that make the PVI possible!
A few more special thanks:
A massive thanks to VC Ultimate. They are just awesome. And they make THE BEST gear!
A special huge thanks to my co-TD, Lee Feldscher!
Okay… now to some logistics:
Our trainers are:
Mieka Davis (508-277-4156)
Please add Mieka to your contacts on your phone..
Who is at this event for the first time? Attended 3-5 times? More than 5? Who was here at the first one in 2014? Anyone attend one of the St. Johnsbury Academy Invitationals?
Some numbers for y’all:
66 Teams, 6 states, 3 provinces, 20 fields, 1206 players, 75 coaches, 264 chaperones and managers, 195 games, 20 acres, 4.3 miles of painted lines
The big thing: Know the tournament schedule and program! Know where your team needs to be at what time. Understand how the schedule works. Understand how the event works.
Some important items:
Be careful on Island Road. Drive 15mph or slower. Only park on the grass in the designated parking areas. Please minimize trips to and from the Oxbow to reduce traffic on Island Rd.
Some of these fields are being used for the first time today since the spring floods, so there could be debris or trash on the fields. Also, the Oxbow is a natural place, so over the winter some wild animals may have taken up residence on the fields. Please have your teams line up on the back end zone line and walk the entire field to pick up anything that shouldn’t be there and mark any obstacles or unsafe areas before you start your first game. There are trash bags in your team boxes you can use for trash and debris.
Start and cap your games on time.
No softcaps
No horns
Text in your scores to Karin at 617-797-5627.
All games must be played.
Please set alarms on your phones for hard cap.
No dangerous plays, spiking, poor language, or bad behavior. At all. Just don’t. I will eject your entire team.
Bring a full water bottle each day. We’ll have water towers all over the place and Gatorade at tourney central. Anything you can do to cut down single use plastic bottles would be appreciated.
Weather: 5 horn blasts = get to your cars, wait for call/5 horn blasts. Text/@PVInvite/Email will be sent out with updates.
Keep all sidelines clear. Nothing, at all — even players! — within 3 feet of any sideline. All hard objects — tents, chairs, must be at least 7 yards from any sideline. Some sidelines are very narrow. Do not store any gear or items on the narrow sidelines. That means most chairs and tents will need to be on the wider sidelines or out the back of the endzones.
You’ll find water on the sidelines. If your jugs are empty, call one of the posted numbers.
You’ll find extra food at tourney central.
When you leave a sideline, please leave it cleaner than you found it.
Opponent late? Assess a point for every 3 minutes they are late.
A chaperone must be with your team at ALL times. You cannot leave your team unattended at any tournament location or event.
Please, please, please return your completed spirit score sheet promptly at the end of your games on Saturday and Sunday. Please. You are bringing a hard copy of the sheet at the end of each day.
Thank you sponsors: VC, Friction Gloves, Northampton HS Athletics, and most importantly the Oxbow Marina.
Please make sure you promptly report your game scores after each round to Karin at 617-797-5627.
We have AMAZING merch made by VC! Make sure to visit the merch tent!
Please stay off the docks, away from the boats, and out of the water. There is no fishing.
The next PVI will take place on May 17th and 18th, 2025!
Final division assignments won’t be made until tomorrow at the earliest since…
The 17 teams listed below are NOT cleared to play. Reasons you could NOT be cleared to play include:
No chaperone on your roster.
Not enough cleared players on your roster (You need at least 10)
Missing a payment: Bid fee, housing, and/or dinner fee.
You can check the reason for your team not being cleared by looking over the team status page. Scroll to the right on the spreadsheet to see all the columns. Everything we are tracking is on that sheet. Please let us know if you see any issues with your team’s row.
Please keep in mind that the USA Ultimate online rostering system is going to be locked very soon, almost certainly in the next 24 hours.
We are finalizing our dinner order tomorrow (5/8) @ Noon. If you do not pay for your dinner tickets by then, you won’t be able to get food at the dinner social on Saturday night. These teams have asked for dinner tickets but have not yet paid for them:
Team
Division
Forest City
Female-Matching
Forest City
Open
Albany
Open
Newton
Female-Matching
Stuyvesant
Open
Have not yet paid for dinner.
Dinner tickets cost $14 per person. At this point you must pay digitally. You can find out how to do that here. Please remember to forward me (josh@pvinvite.org) your dinner PayPal payment receipt. If we don’t get your dinner payment by tomorrow (5/8) at Noon we won’t be able to get you dinner tickets.
Mark your calendars! PVI2023 will be on May 13th and 14th, 2023!
Please make sure you drive 15mph or slower on Island Rd! (Getting the sense that this is important? :))
Lee the Legend!
Rebooting an event of this size is challenging and incredibly rewarding. A big reason the event happens at all — probably the biggest — is Lee the Legend ™. Some of the extraordinary work he does is mow our 20 acres of fields and put down all the field lines… all 3.9 MILES of lines. So, make sure to say hi to Lee his weekend!
One way you can help us out is by walking the fields you’re assigned to BEFORE you use them for playing. This weekend is the first time in several years the fields have all been used, and given that they are on a flood plain, they tend to gather random detritus. We’ve cleared as much as we can, but given the size of the area, we could use your help making sure each field is clear.
Is your online roster perfect? If not and your online roster is locked, please contact Emily at USA Ultimate (emily@hq.usaultimate.org) and let her know the edits you need to make. Keep in mind that at this point not all edits will be possible. Please be very specific with the info you send to her.
The following teams have players with missing memberships: Boys: Lexington V, Lexington JV Girls: Needham A, Northfield Mount Hermon V
The word from USA Ultimate is that these teams need to get the memberships taken care of or remove the players from the roster.
Drones are not allowed at the Oxbow.
Unfortunately, dogs are also not allowed at the Oxbow unless they are registered support animals.
Are you and your team deeply familiar with the scheduleand program?
During the event scores will be posted on the schedule spreadsheet.
While we would like to have the event created on ScoreReport.net, we don’t currently have the bandwidth to create the pages. That being said, if someone would like to dig in and create the pages, please let us know! Not only would you earn our appreciation by picking up this task, we’d be happy to give you two tournament discs in return! Let us know!
Website:PVInvite.org Date: May 14th and 15th, 2022 Divisions (# of teams): Youth Girls A (12-16), Youth Girls B (12-16), Youth Boys A (12-16), Youth Boys B (12-16) Location:Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA Cost: $500 (Free if you fly in!) USAU Sanctioned: Yes Lined fields: Yes Guaranteed # of games: 5, although most teams will get 6.
From all of the 125+ volunteers that make the PVI happen… thank you for coming out to the Oxbow for a truly magical weekend of awesome!
If possible, please forward this message to all members of your team.
1) We’d like everyone that attended the event — players, coaches, chaperones, spectators — to fill out this short online feedback survey. The information you submit will helps us build an even better event in 2020! We know that filling out feedback surveys can be a drag, but know that the best way for us to improve the event, by far, is to hear from you.
3) We’d love to see any and all photos and video that you took this weekend. You can email media and links to media to josh@pvinvite.org. You can also send files directly to us using this link.
4) Details regarding lost and found items will be online soon.
5) Please look over the reported game scores. Let me know via email (josh@pvinvite.org) if you see any numbers that aren’t right. At this point I have posted all submitted game scores as well as all spirit results.
6) All spirit scores are now online (XLS: Girls Division, Boys Division) and embedded below. I will be directly emailing each team their written comments in the next few weeks.
[Green means above average for the division and red means below average for the division. Orange means the high score for that column.]
Girls’ Divisions SpiritBoys’ Divisions Spirit
Thank you again for attending the 6th annual Pioneer Valley Invitational!
Website:PVInvite.org Date: May 18th and 19th, 2019 Divisions (# of teams): Youth Girls (24-32), Youth Boys (24-32) Location:Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA Cost: $490 (Free if you fly in!) USAU Sanctioned: Yes Lined fields: Yes Guaranteed # of games: 6 Saturday night dinner/dance/trade night: Yes!
The tournament program is now online! Please make sure you read it over in detail.
It’s important that every team have as many people as possible sign up to receive tournament updates via text. Anyone can sign up by texting @pvi2018 to 81010.
An now a message from Tiina Booth!
Hello PVI players and coaches!
My name is Tiina Booth and I am one of the coaches of the UMass men’s team, as well as the director of the National Ultimate Training Camp. Welcome to the Pioneer Valley Invitational and we hope you are ready for an amazing weekend of ultimate!
Your team will receive a NUTC disc on Saturday morning and each disc has our summer schedule written on it. Please use and share this disc with your team. We will also have a NUTC Hospitality Tent set up and please stop by to say hi, hang out with campers and counselors and enjoy some special gifts.
Please also share this link with your team and parents for more info about camp.
Best of luck this weekend and please stop by and say hi!
