IPA (2024-2025) Match 1 Recap
Overview
The IPA 2024-2025 season begins with Match 1 on January 18th.
This year’s tournament features 37 teams across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Italy.
Group A sees Wisconsin take the early lead, with Cornell and McGill closely behind. Tufts, USC, and Bocconi all behind.
Average: 28.33 points, Standard deviation: 11.47 points, Penalties: 0 points.
Group B sees Waterloo in first with Emory trailing a few points behind. Yale, Chicago, Cal Tech, and Virginia all within reach.
Average: 28 points, Standard deviation: 5.59 points, Penalties: 2 points.
Group C sees a dominant performance by Carnegie Mellon. Georgia Tech sits in second. Rest of the group trails significantly from first. No team is out of playoff contention yet.
Average: 28.17 points, Standard deviation: 15.28 points Penalties: 1 point.
Group D sees Johns Hopkins in first. Northwestern and Cambridge behind. Rest of the group trails with poor starts from Harvey Mudd and Occidental.
Average: 26.17 points, Standard deviation: 11.97 points, Penalties: 13 points.
Group E sees a dominant performance by Oxford. Wake Forest and Princeton behind. North Carolina, Washington, and Booth all lag from the group leaders. No team is out of playoff contention yet.
Average: 27.67 points, Standard Deviation: 15.99, points Penalties: 4 points.
Group F sees a dominant performance by Michigan. Brown sits in second. Warwick, MIT, and Duke trails while NYU and UPenn have a weak start.
Average: 24.14 points, Standard Deviation: 14.83, points Penalties: 35 points.
Match 1 Table Leaders
| Name | Team |
| Alex Baek | Cornell |
| Sachin Bhasin | Emory |
| Max Breslin | Northwestern |
| Zheng Cao | Cambridge |
| Yuxuan Chen | Yale |
| 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 | Cal Tech |
| Daniel Matten | Duke |
| Andrew Peterson | Wisconsin |
| Wyatt Pereira | McGill |
| Minhea Piuaru | Oxford |
| Shiah Sarkowsky | Claremont McKenna |
| Karthik Shankar | Northwestern |
| Hugo Saint | Oxford |
| Tiannan Zhang | Carnegie Mellon |
Group A
| Team | Total Points | Match 1 Scores | Placement Change |
| Wisconsin | 42 | 42 | = |
| Cornell | 38 | 38 | = |
| McGill | 35 | 35 | = |
| Tufts | 22 | 22 | = |
| USC | 19 | 19 | = |
| Bocconi | 14 | 14 | = |
Group B
| Team | Points | Match 1 Scores | Placement Change |
| Waterloo | 36 | 36 | = |
| Emory | 32 | 32 | = |
| Yale | 28 | 28 | = |
| Chicago | 25 | 25 | = |
| Cal Tech | 25 | 25 | = |
| Virginia | 21 | 21 | = |
Group C
| Team | Points | Match 1 Scores | Placement Change |
| Carnegie Mellon | 55 | 55 | = |
| Georgia Tech | 37 | 37 | = |
| Claremont McKenna | 24 | 24 | = |
| Imperial | 20 | 20 | = |
| Vanderbilt | 19 | 19 | = |
| Harvard | 14 | 14 | = |
Group D
| Team | Points | Match 1 Scores | Placement Change |
| Johns Hopkins | 41 | 41 | = |
| Northwestern | 35 | 35 | = |
| Cambridge | 33 | 33 | = |
| Berkeley | 22 | 22 | = |
| Harvey Mudd | 15 | 15 | = |
| Occidental | 11 | 11 | = |
Group E
| Team | Points | Match 1 Scores | Placement Change |
| Oxford | 55 | 55 | = |
| Wake Forest | 34 | 34 | = |
| Princeton | 31 | 31 | = |
| North Carolina | 19 | 19 | = |
| Washington | 15 | 15 | = |
| Booth | 12 | 12 | = |
Group F
| Team | Points | Match 1 Scores | Placement Change |
| Michigan | 52 | 52 | = |
| Brown | 34 | 34 | = |
| Warwick | 26 | 26 | = |
| MIT | 18 | 18 | = |
| Duke | 17 | 17 | = |
| NYU | 13 | 13 | = |
| UPenn | 9 | 9 | = |
Updates
The IPA tournament will resume on February 1st, 2025.