The IPA 2025-2026 tournament concludes with the IPA Finals on April 11.
Seed
Team
Location
Points
Avg Finish
Status
6
Cambridge
Cambridge, England, UK
30
1.2th
2026 IPA Champion
7
Penn
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15
2.8nd
2nd
9
Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, CA
13
2.8nd
3rd
4
New York
New York, New York, USA
12
3rd
4th
Average: 3.5 points, Standard deviation: 8.35 points
Cambridge wins the IPA Finals and is crowned the 2025-2026 IPA champion. Penn, Waterloo, and New York follow, respectively. Cambridge entered the playoffs as the 6 seed. Waterloo wins four of the five tables in a blowout. This is Cambridge’s first IPA title.
Congratulations to Bobby Luo, Cedric Khua, Dan Heathcote, Ethan Yeo, Harrison Emery, Hongwoo Choi, Jas Kang, Matthew Zhang, Nicholas Land, Patrick Thomas, Seyane Sivarakulan, and Zhang Chenxi.
IPA Finals Table Results
Table 1
Team
Name
Placement
Points
Penn
Kyle Zhou
1st
7
Waterloo
Brandon Kwan
2nd
4
Cambridge
Harrison Emery
3rd
2
New York
Patrick Zhang
4th
1
Table 2
Team
Name
Placement
Points
Cambridge
Ethan Yeo
1st
7
New York
Andy Xu
2nd
4
Waterloo
Kaiwen Xu
3rd
2
Penn
Leo Li
4th
1
Table 3
Team
Name
Placement
Points
Cambridge
Hongwoo Choi
1st
7
Waterloo
Joshua Zheng
2nd
4
New York
Benjamin Fredrickson
3rd
2
Penn
Cheng How Koh
4th
1
Table 4
Team
Name
Placement
Points
Cambridge
Jas Kang
1st
7
Penn
Kerry Zhao
2nd
4
Waterloo
Matthew Wang
3rd
2
New York
Nicholas Nakamura
4th
1
Table 5
Team
Name
Placement
Points
Cambridge
Matthew Zhang
1st
7
New York
Alexander Huang
2nd
4
Penn
Sunny Wang
3rd
2
Waterloo
Ehsan Syed
4th
1
Challenger
Seed
Team
Location
Points
Average Finish
Status
2
Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
60
1.2th
2026 IPA Challenger Winner
1
Illinois
Champaign, Illinois, USA
15
1.8th
Toronto wins the inaugural IPA Challenger playoffs, taking four tables to Illinois’ one.
Congratulations to Amogh Manivannan, Edric Zhou, Eric Liao, Jump Pratumsuwan, Kenneth Luo, Larry Li, Shaanveer Sandhu, Suyash Shivhare, Tymon Cui, and Zhenghao Wang.