SJAI 2012 - May 19th and May 20th, 2012 St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, VT
2012 SJA Invitational
Last Updates
SJAI2012 - Last Update
The fields are marked. The tents are up. Tables have been driven all
over the place. The scoreboards are all constructed. The Dance
equipment is live. The programs have all been stapled. Tournament discs
have been counted and partitioned. The dinner for 900 is set. Tonight's
pre-tournament dance is about to start.
All is well in St. Johnsbury
tournament land.
A few updates:
1) The tournament score reporter pages are now online: Open
Divisions, Girls
Divisions. Please look them over and let me know if you see any
mistakes/issues.
2) Two of the C divisions fields had to be moved to the Lyndon Town School. This means that
on SATURDAY, the U POOL of the C-Division (Burlington, South
Portland, CVU Red, and North Country) will be playing all of their pool
games at the Lyndon Town School.
3) We've pulled together some more water towers but that being said,
please bring one with you if you can. It's going to be hot and very
sunny this weekend.
4) All pop-tents and chairs need to be kept at least 7 yards off ANY
sideline. You MUST pay attention to where you are putting objects close
to any sideline. Do NOT setup a tent within 7 yards of ANY sideline.
See you soon!
- Seamon
ps. Are ALL of your roster issues taken care of?
5/17 Update
SJAI2012 - 051712 Update
The following email was sent out to all team contacts at 11:15am on
Thursday, 5/17:
There will be at least two water
towers at each tournament central tent. I would like for there
to be more but I am running short on finding enough here in the NEK.
So, if you can, please bring a water tower for your team. There will be
water filling stations at each tournament central tent and at other
various points around each tournament location.
There will be athletic trainers capable of taping at the SJA and LI field locations. EMTs will be on
duty at LTS and the Fairgrounds locations who wil not be able to tape
players. So, if you have players that
need to get taped, please have them come to the SJA or LI field
locations before your games start each day.
This Friday, Ava
Schein is running a fundraiser dance for her work with Ultimate
Peace. Anyone attending the SJAI2012 can attend for the low price of
$1. To get access to this awesome price, you just need to email me and
let me know you're coming. Ava did an amazing announcement this
morning. You can watch video of the announcement right
here.
Breakmark is once again returning
to provide a wide array of custom tournament gear. Here's what's going
to be available:
This Friday, Ava Schein is running a fundraiser dance for her work with Ultimate Peace. Anyone attending the SJAI2012 can attend for the low price of $1. To get access to this awesome price, you just need to email me and let me know you're coming. Ava did an amazing announcement this morning. Check it out:
Food Update
An outline of the food provided during the weekend is now online right here.
Captain's Meeting
SJAI2012 - 051512 - Captain's Meeting Notes
The following email was sent out to all team contacts at 5/15 at 6:15pm:
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There will be a mandatory 5-10 minute captain's meeting at 7:45am on Saturday morning.
The girls divisions captain's meeting will happen at St. Johnsbury Academy at tournament
central.
The boys divisions captain's meeting will happen at Lyndon Institute at tournament
central. (All three boys divisions will have their meeting together.)
Note: Open A and C division games will start at 9:00 while Open B
Division games start at 8:30.
All teams are required to have at least one representative at their
division's captain's meeting. If you know you are going to be unable to
have someone at the meeting, let me know ASAP.
Below you will find the full captain's meeting notes. At the actual
meeting I will only be covering a few very important points from the
notes. It is your responsibility to make sure you are familiar with the
full captain's meeting notes.
- Seamon
Captain’s Meeting Notes
Introductions:
-Tournament Coordinator: Josh Seamon
-Tournament Coordinator Shadow: Laura Carver Dionne (802.291.3644)
-Tournament Directors/Scorekeepers: Eimile Bishop (Girls Division -
802.274.6227), Anna Hall (Open A Division - 802.922.2660), Zach
Abramson (Open B Division - 802.274.3054), and John McKinnon (C
Division - 802.477.3618)
-Trainers/EMT/AMC: Chris Despins (Girls Division), Allyson Halsey (Open
C Division), Heather Wheeler (Open B Division, Saturday), and Chelsea
Marcott (Open B Division, Sunday), Jay Benitez (Open A Division)
-All Captains and Coaches
All teams
-Start and cap your games on time; others need to play after you
-If the TDs think there is danger from lightning, we will clear the
fields. There will be no discussion. The word of the TD is final. 5
horn blasts signals that you must immediately clear the field. A second
set of 5 horn blasts means that each team needs to send a
representative to tournament central.
-Shower in the locker rooms at SJA, NOT at your host house.
-Important: clean up after yourselves when you move from field to field
and at the end of the day.
-No cleats in any buildings please.
-Cursing or insults, including racial or gender slurs, will not be
tolerated, either on or off the field.
-No disc spiking.
-If you’re not in the game you cannot make a call or tell someone in
the game to make a call. -We are not playing with softcaps.
Rules and Tie Breakers
-We are using USA Ultimate’s Rules of Ultimate, 11th edition
-All divisions will start with pool play. Championship bracket play
will then follow in all divisions. In the case of tied win-loss
records, we will use USA Ultimate Tie Breaker manual to determine
placement.
-Each team has a copy of the rules in their team packet. Copies of the
rules are also available at Tournament Central.
Scoring
-All games will be played to 15. Win by 2 until softcap. Hard point cap
at 17.
-Report all scores by calling/texting them into the scorekeeper for
your tournament location. Use the text format: “[Team Name 1] Score
[Team Name 2] Score”.
Time Between Pulls, Halftime, and Time
Outs
-The receiving team must be ready within 70 seconds after the previous
goal. The pulling team must release 90 seconds after the previous goal,
as per 11th edition rules. Everyone should be polite but firm.
-A five-minute halftime will be taken when the first team reaches 8
pts.
-If neither team has reached the 8 points 30 minutes before the
hardcap, a five-minute halftime will be taken at the end of the
currently played point.
-Each team is allowed two timeouts per half. No timeouts can be taken
after harcap or after a score of 14-14 is reached.
Time Caps and Hard Cap
-Time Cap times are listed on the schedules. Time Cap times must be
adhered to regardless of the starting of the game.
-A time Cap is declared after the current scoring attempt is completed.
Scorekeepers and coaches must make sure that all teams and players are
aware of the Time Cap.
-When a Hard Time Cap is declared and the active point is finished, the
game is over unless the score is tied, in which case a final point will
be played.
-Immediately after a point is scored you are considered to be in the
next point, even if the pull has not happened yet. (There is no time
be- tween points.) Half time is considered to be in the next scoring
attempt.
Game play
-All games are mandatory and MUST be played. A team that fails to play
a game will most likely not be invited to a future St. Johnsbury
Academy Invitational.
Spirit of the Game Scores
-Please return your spirit ballot to tournament central immediately
after your last game on Sunday.
Trainers
-A trainer will be stationed at Tournament Central all weekend
St. Johnsbury Academy: Chris Despins (ATC), 802-535-5074
Lyndon Institute: Heather Wheeler (ATC), 802-535-7386 (Saturday),
Chelsea Marcott (ATC), 802-274-2157 (Sunday)
Fairgrounds: Allyson Halsey (EMT), 802-473-2100
Lyndon Town School: Jay Benitez (EMT), 802-274-4312
Team Boxes and Water
-Each team will get a large team box.
-Extra water will be available at Tournament Central
Saturday Night Dinner/Dance/Trade Night
-The event will take place in the center of the St. Johnsbury Academy
Campus
-4-8pm: Showers in the SJA lockers (SJA)
-6:30-8:30pm: Dinner on Stowe Green
-6-10pm: Bouncy Castles, Stowe Green [Yah, four of them.]
-6-10pm: Video games outside The Black Box
-7-10pm: Dance in The Black Box
-7:30pm: All tournament picture, Stowe Green
-7:30 to 8pm: Players vs. Coaches, Stowe Green
-8pm: Coaches and Parents social, Morse Lobby
-You will need to present a pink tournament wristband to gain access to
the dinner line
-Tables will be available for anyone that is interested in trading gear
Bathrooms
-Use the bathrooms or the porto-potties, NOT THE WOODS. If you don’t
know where the bathroom is, please ask at tournament central.
Volunteers
-Any time you see a volunteer staff person, say thank you!
SJAI2012 - 051412 Update 2
This email was sent out to all team contacts at 12:15pm on Monday, 5/14:
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Hello everyone,
Every team needs to look over the master info spreadsheet
to see if there are any red boxes on their line. Those are items that
must be taken care of before you arrive in St. Johnsbury. Your team
will not be allowed to play if those items are not taken care of before
you arrive in St. Johnsbury.
1) At this point you should NOT mail missing dinner payments to me.
Instead, you should hand off the payment to me or a Tournament Director
on Saturday morning.
2) Please delete players who are not coming to the tournament from your
online roster.
3) At this point you should NOT mail me copies of your medical
authorization forms. You should email me scans of the forms.
The following teams are currently UNABLE to play this weekend because they:
1) Don't have an NCSI background checked chaperone listed on their
online roster AND/OR
2) Have less than 10 okay'd players on their online roster AND/OR
3) Have not sent me copies of their medical authorization forms
Please fix these items immediately. Email me as soon as you read this email and let me
know what you are doing to get these items completed.
Berkshires NY Open (Not enough
okay'd players, no med forms)
Brattleboro VT Open (Not enough
okay'd players)
Burlington VT Open (Not enough
okay'd players)
Columbia B NJ Open (No med forms)
Concord-Carlisle A MA Open (No med
forms)
Concord-Carlisle B MA Open (No med
forms)
CVU Red VT Open (No med forms)
CVU White VT Open (No med forms)
Fryeburg Academy ME Open (Not
enough okay'd players)
John Jay NY Open (MISSING NCSI BACKGROUND
CHECKED CHAPERONE)
Lyndon Institute VT Open (No med
forms)
Lyndon Institute VT Girls (No med
forms)
Montpelier VT Girls (No med forms,
not enough okay'd players)
Montpelier A VT Open (No med forms)
Montpelier B VT Open (No med
forms, not enough okay'd players)
Quebec (Aera) QC Girls (MISSING NCSI BACKGROUND
CHECKED CHAPERONE)
Quebec (Hydro) QC Open (MISSING NCSI BACKGROUND
CHECKED CHAPERONE)
Stuyvesant NY Girls (Not enough
okay'd players)
Missing dinner payments:
Amherst JVA // $8.00
Andover // $8.00
Fieldston A // $8.00
Needham // $40.00
John Jay // $66.00
Montpelier // $80.00
Concord-Carlisle // $120.00
Concord-Carlisle A // $120.00
Concord-Carlisle B // $120.00
Lyndon Institute // $120.00
CVU Red // $136.00
CVU White // $136.00
Montpelier A // $136.00
Montpelier B // $136.00
Columbia B // $144.00
North Country // $144.00
South Portland // $144.00
Falmouth // $176.00
Lexington // $192.00
Needham B // $208.00
5/14 Update
051412 - SJAI2012 Update
This email was sent out to all team contacts at 11am on Monday, 5/14:
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Hello everyone,
Here are the tournament rankings. If you have any comments, send them
over by tomorrow morning at 8am. At that point I will be finalizing the
rankings and will send out the exact tournament schedule.
We are running a pre-tournament dance on Friday night from 7 to 11pm on
campus here at the Academy. The cost is $1 for Ultimate players. Let me
know if your team would like to attend. (This dance is in addition to
the one we are running on Saturday night.)
A few important questions for you to ponder:
1) Is your chaperone listed as cleared on your online roster?
2) Have you paid for all your dinner spots?
3) Do any of your players need to pay their membership fee and/or sign
their online waiver?
General Schedule Outline
- Games will run from 8:30am to 5:30pm on Saturday
- Games will run from 8:30am to 4:30pm on Sunday
- All games will be to 15, hard cap at 90 minutes. No softcap. 30 minutes between hard
cap and the start of the next round. Win by 2 until harcap or 17 is
reached.
Girls A division: 6 games each
Girls B division: 6 play 7 games, 1 plays 6 games
Boys A division: 4 play 6 games, 4 play 7 games
Boys B division: 8 play 6 games, 8 play 7 games
Boys C division: 12 play 6 games, 4 play 7 games
For those keeping track: That's 176
total games played (across 27 fields)
- Boys A Division Saturday: Two
pools of four play three rounds of pool play. The bottom two teams in
each pool will then play cross over games against the top 4 teams from
the B division. The cross over games will happen at Lyndon Institute.
The winners of the cross over games will go to the A division on Sunday
and the losers will go to the B division on Sunday. - Boys A Division Sunday: 8
team standard single elimination bracket. All games at Lyndon Town
School. Every team gets 3 games. - Boys B Division Saturday: Four
pools of four play 3 rounds of pool play. After pool play the top team
in each pool will play one of the bottom 4 teams from the A division.
Winners go to the A division and losers stay in the B division. The
bottom four teams after pool play play the top 4 teams from the C
division. Winners stay in the B division and losers go to the C
division. All cross over games happen at Lyndon Institute. - Boys B Division Sunday: Top
2 teams in each pool play a standard 8-team single elimination bracket
for 1st through 8th place. The bottom two teams in each pool play a
standard 8-team single elimination bracket for 9th through 16th place. - Boys C Division Saturday: Four
pools of four play 3 rounds of pool play. After pool play the top team
in each pool will play one of the bottom 4 teams in the B division. The
winners go to the B division and the losers stay in the C division. - Boys C Division Sunday: Top
2 teams in each pool play a standard 8-team single elimination bracket
for 1st through 8th place. The bottom two teams in each pool play a
standard 8-team single elimination bracket for 9th through 16th place.
All teams get 3 games. - Girls A Division Saturday: Two
pools of 4 play three rounds of pool play. - Girls A Division Sunday:
Standard 8-team single elimination bracket play. All teams get 3 games. - Girls B Division Saturday: 7
teams will play a 7 round, round robin. 4 rounds played on Saturday. - Girls B Division Sunday: 3
more rounds of round robin play, followed by 1v2, 3v4, 5v6.
Simple summary:
- If your teams starts in the Open A division your can win the Open A
or B divisions.
- If your team starts in the Open B division your team can win the Open
A, B, or C divisions
- If your team starts in the Open C division your team can win the Open
B or C divisions.
- If your team starts in the Girls A division division your team can
win the Girls A division.
- If your team starts in the Girls B division division your team can
win the Girls B division.
(There is no cross over between the Girls A and B division.)
Boys A Division
Lexington // MA
// Open // BA-01
Quebec (Hydro) //
QC // Open
// BA-02
Fieldston A // NY
// Open // BA-03
Longmeadow V //
MA // Open
// BA-04
Middletown // CT
// Open // BA-05
John Jay // NY
// Open // BA-06
Windsor-Plainsboro South //
NJ // Open
// BA-07
Berkshires // NY
// Open // BA-08
Boys B Division
St. Johnsbury V //
VT // Open
// BB-01
Montpelier A //
VT // Open
// BB-02
Northampton // MA
// Open // BB-03
Falmouth // ME
// Open // BB-04
Stuyvesant // NY
// Open // BB-05
PVPA // MA
// Open // BB-06
Concord-Carlisle A //
MA // Open
// BB-07
Hanover // NH
// Open // BB-08
Cape Elizabeth //
ME // Open
// BB-09
Fryeburg Academy //
ME // Open
// BB-10
Acton-Boxborough //
MA // Open
// BB-11
Cumberland // ME
// Open // BB-12
Hopkinton // MA
// Open // BB-13
Merriconeag // ME
// Open // BB-14
Compass // VT
// Open // BB-15
Newton South //
MA // Open
// BB-16
Boys C Division
Lyndon Institute //
VT // Open
// BC-01
Burlington // VT
// Open // BC-02
South Portland //
ME // Open
// BC-03
Needham B // MA
// Open // BC-04
CVU Red // VT
// Open // BC-05
Spaulding // VT
// Open // BC-06
Concord-Carlisle B //
MA // Open
// BC-07
St. Johnsbury JV //
VT // Open
// BC-08
Montpelier B //
VT // Open
// BC-09
CVU White // VT
// Open // BC-10
Columbia B // NJ
// Open // BC-11
Brattleboro // VT
// Open // BC-12
Fieldston B // NY
// Open // BC-13
Burr & Burton //
VT // Open
// BC-14
Longmeadow JV //
MA // Open
// BC-15
North Country //
NY // Open
// BC-16
Girls A Division
Quebec (Aera) //
QC // Girls
// GA-01
PVPA // MA
// Girls // GA-02
Amherst JVA // MA
// Girls // GA-03
Columbia // NJ
// Girls // GA-04
Stuyvesant // NY
// Girls // GA-05
Andover // MA
// Girls // GA-06
St. Johnsbury V //
VT // Girls
// GA-07
Beacon // NY
// Girls // GA-08
Girls A Division
Needham // MA
// Girls // GB-01
Longmeadow // MA
// Girls // GB-02
Lyndon Institute //
VT // Girls
// GB-03
Concord-Carlisle //
MA // Girls
// GB-04
Montpelier // VT
// Girls // GB-05
NE Pickup Girls Team //
Many // Girls
// GB-06
BFA Fairfax // VT
// Girls // GB-07
5/11 Update
SJAI2012 - 051112 Update
The following email was sent out to all team contacts at 6pm on Friday,
5/11:
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Hello everyone,
Three things:
1) All housing is set at this point. If you have any housing issues,
please let me know ASAP.
2) Please report all of your scores to http://scores.usaultimate.org/scores/.
I will be finalizing tournament rankings and schedules by this Monday
at 6pm.
3) Several teams have major registration paperwork
items that they need to finish before their team will be allowed to
play. Many teams owe dinner checks. Everyone should look over the master info spreadsheet
to see if they are missing anything and if so, please get the items
completed ASAP.
See you soon!
- Josh
ps. 185 pounds of tournament discs are currently sitting in my
classroom.
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5/7 Update
050712 - Report scores and RRI update
This email was sent out to all team contacts on Monday, 5/7:
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Hello everyone,
All housing assignments were sent out last week. If you signed up for
housing and have yet to get an email connecting you with your host, let
me know immediately.
My goal is to send out the first draft of a tourney schedule in the
next 48 hours.
In order for the schedule
to be as accurate as possible, I need all of you to report all of your
game scores to the USA
Ultimate Score Reporter.
Ranking coming into the tournament will be almost entirely based off of
your team's RRI number.
Open teams: You must report 5 scores or more in order to have a valid
RRI number.
Girls teams: You must report at least 2 scores in order to have a valid
RRI number.
If your team doesn't have a valid RRI number, I will be forced to guess
where your team should be placed. I do not want to have to do that for
anyone.
Please take a minute to look up your team in the score reporter and input any missing scores.
Get this done ASAP.
A quick update on the tournament
format and field locations:
0) Maps of all four field sites are online right here.
BFA Fairfax VT
Girls None
Montpelier VT
Girls None
NE Pickup Girls Team Many
Girls None
Quebec (Aera) QC
Girls None
PVPA MA Girls 2602
Amherst JVA MA
Girls 2493
Columbia NJ Girls
2238
Andover MA Girls
2075
St. Johnsbury V VT
Girls 1961
Longmeadow MA
Girls 1955
Stuyvesant NY
Girls 1905
Beacon NY Girls
1872
Needham MA Girls
1406
Concord-Carlisle MA
Girls 1296
Lyndon Institute VT
Girls 973
Open Teams
Berkshires NY
Open None
Brattleboro VT
Open None
Burlington VT
Open None
Burr & Burton VT
Open None
Cape Elizabeth ME
Open None
Concord-Carlisle B MA
Open None
Cumberland ME
Open None
CVU Red VT Open
None
CVU White VT Open
None
Fieldston B NY
Open None
Fryeburg Academy ME
Open None
Longmeadow JV MA
Open None
Merriconeag ME
Open None
Montpelier A VT
Open None
Montpelier B VT
Open None
Needham B MA Open
None
North Country NY
Open None
Quebec (Hydro) QC
Open None
South Portland ME
Open None
Spaulding VT Open
None
Lexington MA Open
2650
Longmeadow V MA
Open 2626
Fieldston A NY
Open 2610
Windsor-Plainsboro South NJ
Open 2487
St. Johnsbury V VT
Open 2422
Middletown CT
Open 2396
John Jay NY Open
2317
Northampton MA
Open 2299
PVPA MA Open 2222
Stuyvesant NY
Open 2206
Concord-Carlisle A MA
Open 2120
Acton-Boxborough MA
Open 2107
Hanover NH Open
2063
Hopkinton MA Open
1972
Falmouth ME Open
1943
Compass VT Open
1921
Newton South MA
Open 1871
Lyndon Institute VT
Open 1836
St. Johnsbury JV VT
Open 1470
Columbia B NJ
Open 1147
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Dinner Numbers Update
SJAI2012 - Dinner Numbers Update The following was emailed out to all team contacts at 9am on
Monday, 4/23/12.
********************************* Hello everyone,
Today at 4pm I am finalizing our dinner numbers. Please look at the
information below and let me know immediately if you see
any issues.
Here's what everyone has requested for dinner numbers and what everyone
has paid. If you owe dinner money, please get a check in the mail ASAP.
Makes checks out to St. Johnsbury Academy and send them to me at:
Josh Seamon
SJAI2012
1000 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819
SJAI2012 - Housing Update
The following email was sent out to all team contacts on Saturday, 4/21
at 11:50am.
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Hello everyone,
Everything you need to know about housing at the St. Johnsbury Invite is online right here. Please make sure you are very familiar with
all of the housing information.
We're in the process of making our final team to host assignments. Our
goal is to start sending out introductory emails to teams and hosts in
the next 7-10 days. If you do not receive your host information by
Monday, 4/30, please let me know.
Also listed below are the teams that have requested housing. Please
check this list carefully and make sure your team's entry is accurate.
If your team is not on the list it means that you have not requested
housing. If you would like to be added to the list, please let me know
ASAP.
Team
// State //
Division // Nights
needed // Number of people total
Amherst JVA // MA
// Girls // Fri,
Sat // 18
Amherst JVB // MA
// Girls // Fri,
Sat // 15
Andover // MA
// Girls // Fri,
Sat // 21
Beacon // NY
// Girls // Fri,
Sat // 21
Brattleboro // VT
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 16
Burlington // VT
// Open //
Sat // 14
Cape Elizabeth //
ME // Open
// Fri, Sat // 12
Columbia B // NJ
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 18
Compass // VT
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 22
Concord-Carlisle //
MA // Girls
// Fri, Sat // 17
Concord-Carlisle A //
MA // Open
// Fri, Sat // 17
Concord-Carlisle B //
MA // Open
// Fri, Sat // 16
Cumberland // ME
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 18
CVU Red // VT
// Open //
Sat // 17
CVU White // VT
// Open //
Sat // 17
Falmouth // ME
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 22
Fieldston A // NY
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 21
Fieldston B // NY
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 18
Fryeburg Academy //
ME // Open
// Fri, Sat // 16
Hopkinton // MA
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 15
John Jay // NY
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 18
Longmeadow // MA
// Girls // Fri,
Sat // 16
Needham // MA
// Girls // Fri,
Sat // 22
Needham B // MA
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 23
Newton South //
MA // Open
// Fri, Sat // 20
North Country //
NY // Open
// Fri, Sat // 18
Northampton // MA
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 23
PVPA // MA
// Girls // Fri,
Sat // 23
PVPA // MA
// Open // Fri,
Sat // 23
Quebec (Aera) //
QC // Girls
// Sat // 21
Quebec (Hydro) //
QC // Open
// Sat // 20
Stuyvesant // NY
// Girls // Fri,
Sat // 29
Stuyvesant // NY
// Open // Fri,
Sat, Sun // 25
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4/20 Update
SJAI2012 - 042012 Update
The following email was sent out to all team contacts on Friday, 4/20
at 7:45am.
Everything is on track for the 2012 St. Johnsbury Invite to be the best
SJAI to date!
1) The hard deadline for singing up for dinner spots is Monday, 4/23.
By then, please let me know if you'd like to change anything about the
number of dinner spots on the master info spreadsheet.
2) Please make sure you report all of your games leading up to the
event in the USA Ultimate
Score Reporter System. The more games you report the better. I will
be using the USA Ultimate rankings to determine tournament seeding. The
rankings become more accurate as more games are entered.
To make things perfect, I would really like it if the following
paperwork items could be taken care of immediately.
Missing NCSI background checked
chaperone:
Quebec (Aera) QC Girls
Quebec (Hydro) QC Open
Amherst JVB MA Girls
Brattleboro VT Open
Concord-Carlisle B MA Open
Cumberland ME Open
CVU Red VT Open
CVU White VT Open
John Jay NY Open
Lyndon Institute VT Girls
Montpelier VT Girls
NE Pickup Girls Team Many Girls
Needham MA Girls
Has not sent in a COPY of their med
forms. Remember, you can email me scans of the forms.
Amherst JVB MA Girls
Berkshires NY Open
Columbia B NJ Open
Concord-Carlisle A MA Open
Concord-Carlisle B MA Open
Cumberland ME Open
CVU Red VT Open
CVU White VT Open
Fryeburg Academy ME Open
Lyndon Institute VT Girls
Lyndon Institute VT Open
Merriconeag ME Open
Montpelier VT Girls
Montpelier A VT Open
Montpelier B VT Open
NE Pickup Girls Team Many Girls
North Country NY Open
South Portland ME Open
Spaulding VT Open
Let me know if you have any questions,
- Josh
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4/11 Update
SJAI2012 - 4/11 Update
The following email was sent out to all team contacts at 11:15am on
Wednesday, 4/10:
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Hello everyone,
Note: All of these emails and tons of tournament information is posted
to the tournament website, www.SJAInvite.org.
You can check the status of all your registration items right here. Please
take a minute to look over your team's information to make sure it's
accurate. Let me know if you see any issues.
Here are the super
important items I'm still missing from teams. Please address these
items as soon as you possibly can.
Missing Tournament Fee:
Burlington VT Open
Concord-Carlisle B MA Open
North Country NY Open
Northampton MA Open
Missing NCSI background checked
chaperone:
Berkshires NY Open
Longmeadow JV MA Open
Montpelier B VT Open
Quebec (Aera) QC Girls
Quebec (Hydro) QC Open
Beacon NY Girls
Brattleboro VT Open
Hanover NH Open
John Jay NY Open
Lyndon Institute VT Girls
Montpelier VT Girls
Needham MA Girls
North Country NY Open
Has not sent in a COPY of their med
forms. Remember, you can email me scans of the forms.
Amherst JVB MA Girls
Berkshires NY Open
Columbia B NJ Open
Concord-Carlisle A MA Open
Concord-Carlisle B MA Open
Cumberland ME Open
CVU Red VT Open
CVU White VT Open
Fryeburg Academy ME Open
Longmeadow JV MA Open
Lyndon Institute VT Girls
Lyndon Institute VT Open
Merriconeag ME Open
Montpelier VT Girls
Montpelier A VT Open
Montpelier B VT Open
NE Pickup Girls Team Many Girls
North Country NY Open
South Portland ME Open
Spaulding VT Open
Other tournament updates
1) Our bouncy house structures are now confirmed. Three of the four
structures are pictured below.
2) 56 teams from 38 schools, 8 states, and 1 province will be attending
the 2012 St. Johnsbury invite.
3) The hard deadline for singing up for dinner spots is Monday, 4/23.
By then, please let me know if you'd like to change anything about the
number of dinner spots on the master info spreadsheet.
4) Please make sure you report all of your games leading up to the
event in the USA Ultimate
Score Reporter System. The more games you report the better. I will
be using the USA Ultimate rankings to determine tournament seeding. The
rankings become more accurate as more games are entered.
5) With 40 teams in the open division I am leaning towards running 8
teams in the A division, 16 teams in the B division, and 16 teams in
the C division.
6) With 16 girls teams, we will be running 8 teams in the A division
and 8 teams in the B division.
7) My goal is for housing assignments to be sent out to teams in the
first week in May.
Let me know if you have any questions,
- Seamon
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Registration Paperwork Status Sheet
All teams attending the 8th annual St. Johnsbury Invite have to work
through all registration
paperwork by Friday, 4/6.
A master sheet summarizing the status of what every team has completed
and owes is online right
here.
The sheet is manually updated, so there might be a slight lag between
when an item is submitted/completed and when the sheet is updated.
3/18 Update: Stuff you should do now
3/18/12: Stuff you should do now
This email was sent out to all accepted teams on 3/18/12:
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Hello everyone,
I hope everything has been warming up for you as quickly as it has been
for us up here in St. Johnsbury! St. Johnsbury Ultimate can't wait to
host all of you up here in the Northeast Kingdom!
Remember, tons of tournament information is online at www.SJAInvite.org.
Please email me sooner rather than later if you have any questions
about any aspect of preparing your team to attend the St. Johnsbury
Invite. I love answering questions.
1) Registration
paperwork is not hard, but it can take a while to complete. Please,
please, please make sure you are very familiar with all of the
information on that page... now. Not in a couple weeks or a month. Now.
Please. It is never too early to start the registration paperwork. All paperwork needs to be done
by April 6th.
2) Start your online
roster NOW. This takes about 1 minute to complete. You don't
even have to add any players to your roster yet. Just create the blank
roster in the USAU online rostering system. Step by step instruction
covering how to create your roster are online right here. The
following 17 teams have created their roster. Thanks!
Acton-Boxborough MA Open
BFA Fairfax VT Girls
Concord-Carlisle MA Girls
Concord-Carlisle MA Open
Fieldston A NY Open
Fieldston B NY Open
Hopkinton MA Open
John Jay NY Open
Montpelier A VT Open
Montpelier B VT Open
Needham B MA Open
PVPA MA Girls
St. Johnsbury JV VT Girls
St. Johnsbury JV VT Open
St. Johnsbury V VT Girls
St. Johnsbury V VT Open
Stuyvesant NY Open
3) All teams MUST have at
least one NCSI background checked chaperone with them at all times.
The NCSI process can take up to 7 business days or more to complete.
This is a registration step you absolutely
cannot wait on. Your NCSI chaperone must be listed on your online
roster. This process can't be rushed. You can learn all about and start
the NCSI background check process right here.
4) Breakmark is returning to
provide an amazing array of tournament gear. Five Ultimate and Savage Ultimate will be providing
items for team packs. Our Saturday
night event is shaping up to be unreal. The Dartmouth Big Green Bus will be
there. Our three field sites are looking great.
Once again, please let me know if you have any questions.
2012 SJA Invitational 
