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Draft Schedules

Screen Shot 2015-05-12 at 6.01.07 PMDRAFT game schedules for the girls‘ and boys‘ divisions are now online.

PLEASE look them over in detail and let me know if you see any errors or things that look off. Anyone that finds something medium to large receives a really, really big handshake from yours truly, a very tired tournament scheduler (Josh).

I will be taking comments on the schedules until Wednesday, 5/13 at 6pm.

Written explanations of the schedules:

Girls’ Division Saturday: 13 teams are spread across 3 pools of 3 and one pool of 4. Everyone plays everyone in their pool during pool play and teams are re-ranked. The 1-seeds are paired off and play one game against each other for placement in Sunday’s champs bracket. The 2 seeds play all the 3 seeds. The winners of those 4 games become the 2 seeds and the losers become the 3 seeds. (The team that finished 4th in the pool of four doesn’t have a crossover game.)

Girls’ Division Sunday: The top two teams from each of the four pools play in a standard 8-team elimination bracket. The bottom team from each pool (bottom two from the pool of 4) will play in a consolation round robin schedules on Saturday evening based on input from those 5 teams.

Boys A Division Saturday: 8 teams are spread across 2 pools of 4. Everyone plays everyone in their pool and is then reranked. The top three teams in the two pools are done after pool play. The bottom team in each pool plays one crossover game.

Boys B Division Saturday: 12 teams are spread across 3 pools of 4. Everyone plays everyone in their pool and is then reranked.

Crossovers on Saturday: The four top teams from the B Division are paired off and play for the chance to play the bottom teams from the two A division pools. The winners of those games become the 4th seeds in the two A division pools.The 2 seeds from the B division play all the 3 seeds from the B division. The winners of those 4 games become the 2 seeds and the losers become the 3 seeds.

Boys A Division Sunday: The 8 teams in the A division play in a standard 8-team elimination bracket. All teams play 3 games.

Boys B Division Sunday: A 12-team elimination bracket with the top 4 teams getting a bye to the quarters. All teams play at least 3 games.

Things to keep in mind:

1) ANY boys team has the chance to win the A or B division.

2) I did everything I could to maximize the number of quality games while minimizing the chance of repeating an opponent.

3) I did everything I could to minimize the amount of moving teams have to do.

4) I thought starting early and ending early on Sunday was preferable to starting late and ending late. (Lots of teams have to travel tremendous distances on Sunday.)

5) All teams will play 3 or 4 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.

6) The schedules are NOT LOCKED UNTIL TOMORROW NIGHT. Please, please, please look them over in detail and let me know if you see any issues. After 7 hours of staring at pools and brackets and doing battle with various online systems, I am tired and probably made some errors. I GREATLY appreciate all the help I can get!

The best way to reach me is via email at josh@pvinvite.org.

A few scheduling notes

Screen Shot 2014-05-04 at 8.52.34 PMIf you see a difference between a print schedule and the online Scorereport schedules, go by what is shown on the Scorereport schedules — Those are the ones that are most up to date.

Since printing the programs last night, I’ve made a few tweaks — Those changes, listed below, have been made to the Scorereport (Girls, Open) and online PDF versionsĀ of the schedule, but alas, I don’t have the ability to modify paper printouts, and I’m not super keen on taping over hundreds of sheets of paper šŸ™‚

1) In the Open division, Cumberland and Cape Elizabeth have switched places.
2) All Sunday Girls B Division games start at 10am.

Also note:

1) Field 9 is not being used for any scheduled games. All other fields are being used for all rounds, except for three fields on Sunday morning from 8-10am. If you’re looking for a place to drill during your byes, please use field 9.

2) I’ve done by best to minimize how much teams have to move, but there was no way around lots of team movement between fields that just has to be done. Given that there is 30 minutes from hard cap to the start of the next round, teams should have a comfortable amount of time to change locations. Please be aware of where you need to be at what times and start (and end!) your games on time.

3)Ā Please keep sidelines as clear as you can. Tents must be at least 5 yards away from any sideline.