We are once again able to match teams with local hosts, with priority given to teams making long journeys. Accommodations will be varied and will most likely include floor space for sleeping. Showers will not be at host homes and will instead be at a local school. The cost for housing will be $50 per team.
The Saturday night social is BACK!
We’ll once again be running a dinner at a local school, playing music, and providing lots of space for games and socializing. More details soon! Dinner will be optional and cost around ~$13 per person.
We project that the housing and Saturday night social forms will be available in mid-January.
And now a message from our friends at VC Ultimate!
VC Ultimate is proud to be back with the sweetest gear in ultimate for the 2023 Pioneer Valley Invite! VC is a company that puts values and community over profit, while innovating to make the highest quality uniforms possible.
Until January 11th, VC is offering a 20% discount on all youth/high school uniform orders!
Website:PVInvite.org Date: May 13th and 14th, 2023 Divisions (# of teams): Youth Female-Matching A (12-16), Youth Female-Matching B (12-16 teams), Youth Open A (12-16 teams), Youth Open B (12-16 teams) Location:Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA Cost: $525 (Free if you fly in!) USAU Sanctioned: Yes Lined fields: Yes Guaranteed # of games: 5, although most teams will get 6.
And yes, VC is returning with their super ultra-amazing gear!
Spirit score data is being crunched. In the meantime, here are some fun updates for y’all:
The items listed in VC Ultimate’s online store for the PVI has been updated to include all teams, including the ones that joined the tournament too close to the event to make the original gear run. Make sure to place your order before the deadline of May 22nd!
Also, if you’re interested in ordering a PVI2022 hoodie, please fill out this interest form before the May 18th deadline. VC needs to know if they’ll hit the 25 item minimum before they can make the item available online.
Thanks to Trevor Charles we managed to get some drone footage of the event we thought y’all would enjoy:
To all the teams that were at the PVI – I hope that you will find some use in scorereport, and that you will enter in all of your games and scores from this season.
If you click on your team name, you can access your schedule and enter in other games. See below for how to access your team record.
ScoreReport is a very, very useful tool, not just for seeding at tournaments, but to get a sense for how much youth ultimate is being played.
It also gives people at your school a sense of how “real” a sport Ultimate is. Just having a national rankings makes it feel more legitimate to a lot of people (I know, superficial, but still exciting). If all the schools you play use it, that would be great for you, and for the larger ultimate scene. The more games that are in the system, the more accurate the rankings are, as well.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that made PVI2022 such a phenomenal success. From the unreal ultimate to the staggering amount of volunteer work, we couldn’t be happier with how things turned out.
All game results are now online in the tournament spreadsheet. If you see anything that looks off, please let us know.
Spirit Awards will go out once we track down a few last spirit score sheets.
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!
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 PVI2022 merchandise directly from VC until May 22nd right here!
Mark your calendar: PVI2023 will take place on May 13th and 14th, 2023!
