IPA Playoffs (2024-2025) Match 1 Recap
Overview
The IPA 2024-2025 tournament resumes with the first IPA Playoff match on March 29th.
Cornell, Northwestern, Waterloo, and Brown lead their respective groups to kick off the IPA Playoffs. Waterloo starts off dominant. Northwestern and Brown are the only leading seed teams to maintain the top placements.
Group A leads with 12-seed Cornell. Rest of the group all within reasonable reach. 1-seed Vanderbilt trails with five points behind. Cambridge trails by six points and Georgia Tech by seven. Still many hands to be played throughout the playoff series.
Average: 17.5 points, Standard deviation: 3.1 points, Penalties: 0 points.
Group B leads with 2-seed Northwestern. 11-seed Wisconsin trails closely behind by four points. McGill and Oxford lag further at eight and 10 points, respectively. Both within reasonable reach.
Average: 17.5 points, Standard deviation: 4.4 points, Penalties: 0 points.
Group C leads with 10-seed Georgia Tech. The team dominates their tables with a healthy 32 points. Virginia and North Carolina in the middle trailing by 16 and 19 points, respectively. Wake Forest lags far behind with nine points.
Average: 17.5 points, Standard deviation: 10.1 points, Penalties: 0 points.
Group D leads with two-time IPA Champion Brown. Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins are tied for second, both trailing by eight points. Michigan with a weak start, trailing the group lead by 18 points.
Average: 17.5 points, Standard deviation: 7.4 points, Penalties: 0 points.
Playoff Match 1 Table Leaders
| Name | Team |
| Rahul Bangre | University of Waterloo |
| Gene Brand | University of Waterloo |
| Jonathan Chen | Cornell University |
| Anish Devineni | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Jack Elliott | Brown University |
| Harrison Emery | University of Cambridge |
| Ariana Huang | Northwestern University |
| Brett Janifer | Northwestern University |
| Aydin Karsidag | McGill University |
| Steve Soo Hyun Lee | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Jacob Matten | Brown University |
| Jack Morris | Vanderbilt University |
| Andrew Peterson | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Hugo Saint | Oxford University |
| Ashwin Tayur | Cornell University |
| Oliver Tu | Brown University |
| Matthew Wang | University of Waterloo |
| Zachary Weissman | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Tiannan Zhang | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Joshua Zheng | University of Waterloo |
Group A
| Seed | Team | Points | Match 1 Scores |
| 12 | Cornell | 22 | 22 |
| 1 | Vanderbilt | 17 | 17 |
| 16 | Cambridge | 16 | 16 |
| 5 | Georgia Tech | 15 | 15 |
Group B
| Seed | Team | Points | Match 1 Scores |
| 2 | Northwestern | 23 | 23 |
| 11 | Wisconsin | 19 | 19 |
| 15 | McGill | 15 | 15 |
| 6 | Oxford | 13 | 13 |
Group C
| Seed | Team | Points | Match 1 Scores |
| 10 | Waterloo | 32 | 32 |
| 3 | Virginia | 16 | 16 |
| 7 | North Carolina | 13 | 13 |
| 14 | Wake Forest | 9 | 9 |
Group D
| Seed | Team | Points | Match 1 Scores |
| 4 | Brown | 26 | 26 |
| 9 | Carnegie Mellon | 18 | 18 |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins | 18 | 18 |
| 8 | Michigan | 8 | 8 |
Updates
The IPA tournament will resume with Playoff Match 2 on April 5th.