The field is set for the 1st annual Fall Youth Invitational!

17 teams will be coming together on October 25th at the ultra-amazing Oxbow Marina! You can read all about the event right here.

Check out the AMAZING gear VC Ultimate has created for the event!

Here’s the status of team tasks as of 10/2 @ 8:30am:

Team Name	Division	Paid bid fee (Due 10/1)	Chaperone Form (Due 10/1)	Chaperone Name	Chaperone Cleared?
Amherst	Middle School	Yes	Yes	James Pistrang	Yes
Four Rivers	Middle School	Yes	Yes	Erin Klett	Yes
Hopkinton	Middle School	Yes	No
Vermont	Middle School	Yes	Yes	Andrew Strauss	No – SafeSport
Boston	Youth Female-Matching	Yes	Yes	Joel Thompson	Yes
Four Rivers	Youth Female-Matching	Yes	Yes	Julia Fay	Yes
Lexington	Youth Female-Matching	No	Yes	Karina Cruz	Yes
Northampton	Youth Female-Matching	Yes	Yes	Jess Cofrin	Yes
Vermont	Youth Female-Matching	Yes	Yes	Mariz Mangundayao	No – Background check [Pending]
Big A	Youth Open	Yes	Yes	John Hoover	Yes
Boston	Youth Open	Yes	No
BUDA U17	Youth Open	Yes	Yes	Sridhar Sadasivan	Yes
Four Rivers	Youth Open	Yes	Yes	Terry Plotkin	Yes
Lexington	Youth Open	Yes	Yes	Larry David	Yes
Lincoln-Sudbury	Youth Open	Yes	Yes	Jennifer Dudgeon	Yes
Vermont	Youth Open	Yes	Yes	Mike Fife	No – SafeSport
Xavier	Youth Open	No	Yes	David Applegate	No – Background check [Pending]

FYI2025: Registration deadline coming up in 9 days!

The registration deadline for the first annual Fall Youth Invitational is coming up fast on October 1st, 2025!

Bid forms and payments need to be submitted by then!

The one-day tournament will take place on Saturday, October 25th at the epically awesome Oxbow fields, located in Northampton, MA. The crew behind the PVI is putting FYI together and they can’t wait to host the awesome this fall!

Bid Form: Right here
Website: PVInvite.org/fyi
Date: Saturday, October 25th 2025
Divisions (8 teams per): Youth Female-Matching, Youth Open, Youth Mixed, Middle School Open
Club teams permitted? Yes, teams composed of players from multiple schools can participate!
Location: Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA
Cost: $330
USAU Sanctioned: No
Cleared Chaperone Required: Yes, one per team
Lined fields: Yes
Tourney Merch: Yup! VC is cooking up some awesome stuff!
Guaranteed # of games: 4
Drone Footage of Field Site: Right here
TDs: Josh Seamon-Ingalls & Lee Feldscher

We’re up to 3 states and 14 teams!

A team from CT (Xavier) has just joined the Fall Youth Invite 2025 fun! That puts us at 14 teams from 3 states!

Bid Form: Right here
Website: PVInvite.org/fyi
Date: Saturday, October 25th 2025
Divisions (8 teams per): Youth Female-Matching, Youth Open, Youth Mixed, Middle School Open
Club teams permitted? Yes, teams composed of players from multiple school can participate!
Location: Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA
Cost: $330
USAU Sanctioned: No
Cleared Chaperone Required: Yes, one per team
Lined fields: Yes
Tourney Merch: Yup! VC is cooking up some awesome stuff!
Guaranteed # of games: 4
Drone Footage of Field Site: Right here
TDs: Josh Seamon-Ingalls & Lee Feldscher

Bids will be accepted on a rolling basis until the bid deadline of October 1st.

Bids as of 9/11 @ 2pm:

Team Name	Division	City	State/ Province
Amherst Middle School	Middle School	Amherst	MA
Four Rivers Middle School	Middle School	Greenfield	MA
Hopkinton Middle School	Middle School	Hopkinton	MA
Vermont Ultimate Middle School	Middle School	Burlington, Montpelier	VT
Four Rivers Varsity	Youth Female-Matching	Greenfield	MA
Northampton	Youth Female-Matching	Northampton	MA
Vermont Ultimate	Youth Female-Matching	Various	VT
Boston	Youth Mixed	Boston	MA
Lincoln-Sudbury	Youth Mixed	Lincoln-Sudbury	MA
Four Rivers Varsity	Youth Open	Greenfield	MA
Lexington Varsity	Youth Open	Lexington	MA
Vermont Ultimate Northern Open	Youth Open	Montpelier, CVU, Burlington	VT
Vermont Ultimate Southern Open	Youth Open	Long Trail, Burr and Burton Academy, Mill River	VT
Xavier Ultimate	Youth Open	Middletown	CT

Also…

The VC Team is thrilled to be the official merchandise sponsor for the first PVI Fall Youth Invite!

VC jerseys are the best in ultimate – crafted from 100% recycled materials, rated UPF50, and designed with a gender-free fit. Your team can feel proud to take the field in uniforms from a company that puts community first.

As part of our PVI partnership, all teams that register will receive 20% off VC uniform orders placed any time through the rest of 2025. Reach out to VC, and let us simplify the ordering process with complimentary design services, team stores, and over 25 years of experience serving the ultimate community.

The VC Team
www.vcultimate.com

FYI2025 is 1/3 full!

11 teams spanning MA and VT have so far signed up to participate in the 1st annual Fall Youth Invitational!

The FYI2025 will give middle and high school ultimate teams the chance to experience the fun, spirit, and competition of the PVI in the fall!

Bid Form: Right here
Website: PVInvite.org/fyi
Date: Saturday, October 25th 2025
Divisions (8 teams per): Youth Female-Matching, Youth Open, Youth Mixed, Middle School Open
Club teams permitted? Yes, teams composed of players from multiple school can participate!
Location: Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA
Cost: $330
USAU Sanctioned: No
Cleared Chaperone Required: Yes, one per team
Lined fields: Yes
Tourney Merch: Yup! VC is cooking up some awesome stuff!
Guaranteed # of games: 4
Drone Footage of Field Site: Right here
TDs: Josh Seamon-Ingalls & Lee Feldscher

Bids will be accepted on a rolling basis until the bid deadline of October 1st.

Bids as of 8/30/25:

Team Name	Division	City	State/ Province
Amherst Middle School	Middle School	Amherst	MA
Four Rivers Middle School	Middle School	Greenfield	MA
Vermont Ultimate Middle School	Middle School	Burlington, Montpelier	VT
Four Rivers Varsity	Youth Female-Matching	Greenfield	MA
Northampton	Youth Female-Matching	Northampton	MA
Vermont Ultimate	Youth Female-Matching	Various	VT
Boston	Youth Mixed	Boston	MA
Four Rivers Varsity	Youth Open	Greenfield	MA
Lexington Varsity	Youth Open	Lexington	MA
Vermont Ultimate Northern Open	Youth Open	Montpelier, CVU, Burlington	VT
Vermont Ultimate Southern Open	Youth Open	Long Trail, Burr and Burton Academy, Mill River	VT

Announcing the first annual Fall Youth Invitational!

The crew behind the Pioneer Valley Invitational is proud to announce the 1st annual Fall Youth Invitational!

The FYI2025 will give middle and high school ultimate teams the chance to experience the fun, spirit, and competition of the PVI in the fall!

Bid Form: Right here
Website: PVInvite.org/fyi
Date: Saturday, October 25th 2025
Divisions (8 teams per): Youth Female-Matching, Youth Open, Youth Mixed, Middle School Open
Club teams permitted? Yes, teams composed of players from multiple school can participate!
Location: Oxbow Marina, Northampton, MA
Cost: $330
USAU Sanctioned: No
Cleared Chaperone Required: Yes, one per team
Lined fields: Yes
Tourney Merch: Yup! VC is cooking up some awesome stuff!
Guaranteed # of games: 4
Drone Footage of Field Site: Right here
TDs: Josh Seamon-Ingalls & Lee Feldscher

Bids will be accepted on a rolling basis until the bid deadline of October 1st.

Complete event info including answers to make frequently asked questions is online on the tournament webpage.

For more information, please reach out to josh@pvinvite.org.

A Fall PVI? PVI2025 Feedback

If you attended this year’s PVI in any capacity, we’d love to receive your feedback. You can send it in using this short form.

We have also begun exploring the idea of running a fall PVI sometime in early September or early October of this year at the Oxbow in Northampton, MA. This event would be in addition to PVI2026, which will be taking place on May 16th and 17th, 2026.

We’re in the very early planning stages and would like to hear from anyone who has any interest in attending a fall PVI. This event could have one and two day-long divisions, possible ranging from Middle School through High School. Female-Matching, Open, and Mixed divisions are all on the table.

Please fill out this short survey if you have any interest in attending a fall PVI.

Survey, Flyover, Merch, Lost+Found, and Spirit

Thanks once again for making the PVI2025 so magical! We absolutely loved hosting y’all!

We’re already at work planning for PVI2026 (May 16th and 18th, 2026!) and one of the ways you can help improve the event is by sending in your feedback using this form. We’d love feedback from anyone that attended the event in any capacity: players, coaches, support crew, parents, spectators… anyone that was there! Please share the link with your whole community!

VC’s online PVI merch store is online here and will close in a little less than 3 days! Make sure to get your order in before the deadline!

Thanks to Karin’s super hard work, all of the written spirit comments we received on spirit scoresheets were typed out. We just finished emailing those comments out to all teams. As always, you can check the complete spirit score standings 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 Noel (noelraley@yahoo.com). Items not claimed by Monday, 5/26 will be donated.

As always, it’s hard even for us to fully understand all the awesome ways the PVI comes together. One of our favorite ways to make the attempt is to watch flyover footage:

Once again: Thank you, thank you, thank you!

See you in 2026!

Every year is the best?

Thank you all for every last bit of joy, passion, energy, community, and connection you brought to the Pioneer Valley Invitational this year. I literally catch my breath when I think of the world you all create when you’re out on the Oxbow fields.

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. The spirit score results are also posted below. If you see anything that looks off, please let us know. All game results have also been 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 also wanted me to pass on word that the rankings tomorrow are likely the most accurate of the year. He’s more than happy to help and answer questions about the ScoreReport.net system: dthompso@hotchkiss.org

Congratulations to the PVI2025 spirit award winners!

FM-A: Titane
FM-B: Cimes
Open A: Stuyvesant
Open B: Cimes
Open C: Argon

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 PVI2025 merchandise directly from VC until May 25th 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, 5/26 will be donated.

Mark your calendar: PVI2026 will take place on May 16th and 17th, 2026!

See you on the field.

Noel, Lee, & Josh

Female-Matching A Spirit Scores

Female-Matching B Spirit Scores

Open A Spirit Scores

Open B Spirit Scores

Open C Spirit Scores

Good morning!

We have another phenomenal day ahead of us!

Please:

Drive super slowly on Island Pond Road.
Keep sidelines clear. ALL spectators, and especially chairs, need to be at least 7 yards from any sideline. Players not in the game should also stay back from the sideline as to not obstruct play. Please clear lines immediately when asked.
Keep reporting your game scores promptly to Karin at 617-797-5627.
All teams are encouraged to have a spirit circle before their games. Given that no team plays games in back to back rounds today, it is always possible to make a spirit circle happen. Greet each other. Meet each other. Learn each other’s names. Talk about what you’re looking forward to. Talk about your concerns. Make a plan for how to have discussions in the game.

See you soon!

Looking forward to Sunday

What an absolutely incredible day! It was such a thrill seeing you all come together for an unreal day of ultimate! Info for tomorrow:

Please make absolutely sure that you turn in a hard copy of your spirit score sheet immediately after your last game on Sunday.

There are no captains’ meetings tomorrow.

The schedule is set for tomorrow. All teams have their first game of the day at either 8am or 9:30am.

Our once reliable texting system is not behaving, so we’re going to fall back to email. We don’t expect to send out many updates via email tomorrow, but please have your key leaders check their email at least once per round.

There is no awards ceremony. Trophies will be awarded to each team that earns one immediately after their last game.

There will be a closing ceremony at 5:20pm at tournament central.

Please, please, please do not park in “creative” places. Make sure you park where you are directed and that you stay within cones and set/staked boundaries.

The following teams must submit their Saturday spirit scoresheet before their first game begins tomorrow. Please hand your sheet off to Karin at the tournament central tent.

Team	Division
Acton-Boxborough	Open
Beacon	Open
Columbia 68s	Open
Hartsbrook	Open
Lincoln Sudbury	Female-Matching
Westfield B	Open