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

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.

Teams that are currently NOT cleared to play:

Team	Division
Acton-Boxborough	Open
Albany	Open
Amherst GXVU	Female-Matching
Amherst JVB	Open
Brooklyn Tech	Open
Forest City	Female-Matching
Forest City	Open
Lexington JV	Open
Monument Mountain	Open
Newton	Female-Matching
NMH	Female-Matching
Origine	Female-Matching
Origine	Open
PVPA	Open
Somerville	Female-Matching
Stuyvesant	Open
Titane	Open

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? :))

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 schedule and 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!

We are excited to announce that bids are now being accepted for the 7th Annual Pioneer Valley Invitational!

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.

Team will be admitted on a rolling basis.

An entire world built around ultimate.

What a place!

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.

2) Mark your calendars for May 16th and 17th, 2020! That’s when we’ll be holding the 7th annual PVI! The event will be back at the Oxbow!

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.]

Thank you again for attending the 6th annual Pioneer Valley Invitational!

See ya’ll on the field!

– Buffy & Josh
josh@pvinvite.org

We are excited to announce that bids are now being accepted for 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!

Team will be admitted on a rolling basis.

Girls:

Boys:

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!

• Tiina

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Here’s a short video we’d like everyone to watch before attending the Pioneer Valley Invitational.

The tournament program is now available!

A few notes about field access and parking:

Please realize that violation of driving and/or parking rules is grounds for your entire team to be ejected, immediately, from the event. 

• You must drive 15mph or slower on Island Pond Road. This is the ONLY access road to the field. (Seriously). The road is not long. Please take your time and drive super slow. Please.
• The parking lot is immediately to the left upon entering the field complex. All vehicles must park in the lot except for large busses.
• Busses (only!) can park in the lower parking area down by the water. This lot is to the right after you enter the complex. Please, ONLY busses can park by the water. Busses must park on the field side of the parking lot and not the dock side – leaving enough room so that boaters could still park on the dock side.
• Not sure if you should park in a particular spot? If so, don’t park there.
• Parking attendants will be on hand.