IPA (2024 – 2025) Match 1 Recap

Overview

The IPA 2024–2025 season began with Match 1 on January 18.

This year’s tournament features 37 teams from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy.

Wisconsin takes the early lead in Group A, with Cornell and McGill close behind and Tufts, USC and Bocconi trailing.

Average 28.33 pts·Std. dev. 11.47·Penalties 0

Waterloo leads Group B, with Emory a few points behind and Yale, Chicago, Caltech and Virginia all within reach.

Average 28 pts·Std. dev. 5.59·Penalties 2

Carnegie Mellon puts in a dominant performance in Group C, with Georgia Tech in second. The rest of the group trails well behind, but no team is out of playoff contention yet.

Average 28.17 pts·Std. dev. 15.28·Penalties 1

Johns Hopkins leads Group D, with Northwestern and Cambridge behind. The rest of the group trails after poor starts from Harvey Mudd and Occidental.

Average 26.17 pts·Std. dev. 11.97·Penalties 13

Oxford puts in a dominant performance in Group E, with Wake Forest and Princeton behind. North Carolina, Washington and Booth all lag behind the group leaders, but no team is out of playoff contention yet.

Average 27.67 pts·Std. dev. 15.99·Penalties 4

Michigan puts in a dominant performance in Group F, with Brown in second. Warwick, MIT and Duke trail, while NYU and UPenn get off to weak starts.

Average 24.14 pts·Std. dev. 14.83·Penalties 35

Match 1 Table Leaders

Name	Team
Alex Baek	Cornell
Sachin Bhasin	Emory
Max Breslin	Northwestern
Zheng Cao	Cambridge
Calvin Cigna	Wake Forest
Hugo Cox	Oxford
Hari Desikan	Carnegie Mellon
Jones Dickerson	Berkeley
Jack Elliott	Brown
Eli Feldman	Michigan
Michael Graham	Princeton
Joseph Greca	Michigan
Allen He	Johns Hopkins
Aydin Karsidag	McGill
Dongjoo Kim	Emory
Amrit Kohli	Georgia Tech
Brendan LaFrenier	Michigan
Michael Lee	Cornell
James Lu	Waterloo
Enoch Luk	Caltech
Daniel Matten	Duke
Andrew Peterson	Wisconsin
Wyatt Pereira	McGill
Mihnea Piuaru	Oxford
Shiah Sarkowsky	Claremont McKenna
Karthik Shankar	Northwestern
Hugo Saint	Oxford
Tiannan Zhang	Carnegie Mellon
Eric Zheng	Carnegie Mellon

Group A

Team	Points	Match 1	Change
Wisconsin	42	42	No change
Cornell	38	38	No change
McGill	35	35	No change
Tufts	22	22	No change
USC	19	19	No change
Bocconi	14	14	No change

Group B

Team	Points	Match 1	Change
Waterloo	36	36	No change
Emory	33	33	No change
Yale	28	28	No change
Chicago	25	25	No change
Caltech	25	25	No change
Virginia	21	21	No change

Group C

Team	Points	Match 1	Change
Carnegie Mellon	55	55	No change
Georgia Tech	37	37	No change
Claremont McKenna	24	24	No change
Imperial	20	20	No change
Vanderbilt	19	19	No change
Harvard	14	14	No change

Group D

Team	Points	Match 1	Change
Johns Hopkins	41	41	No change
Northwestern	35	35	No change
Cambridge	33	33	No change
Berkeley	22	22	No change
Harvey Mudd	15	15	No change
Occidental	11	11	No change

Group E

Team	Points	Match 1	Change
Oxford	55	55	No change
Wake Forest	34	34	No change
Princeton	31	31	No change
North Carolina	19	19	No change
Washington	15	15	No change
Booth	12	12	No change

Group F

Team	Points	Match 1	Change
Michigan	52	52	No change
Brown	34	34	No change
Warwick	26	26	No change
MIT	18	18	No change
Duke	17	17	No change
NYU	13	13	No change
UPenn	9	9	No change

Updates

The IPA tournament will resume on February 1, 2025.