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Overview The IPA 2022–2023 tournament resumed with Match 5 on March 18 and 19. Vanderbilt, Manchester, Pomona, Georgia Tech, Tufts and Waterloo win their respective groups, with Georgia Tech sweeping every table in the match. Harvard makes a late recovery to earn a chance at the wildcard spot. Michigan, MIT, Indiana, Wesleyan, Brown, NYU, UPenn,…

Dear IPA Players, The IPA values integrity and fair competition, and we expect participants in every IPA tournament to play with complete honesty. It has been brought to our attention that some players have assumed the identity of other players during IPA matches by multi-tabling. Multi-tabling is not allowed in this tournament, as set out…

Overview The IPA 2022–2023 tournament resumed with Match 4 on February 25 and 26. Vanderbilt, Brown, Pomona, UPenn, Carnegie Mellon and Waterloo lead their respective groups. Defending IPA champion Brown plays excellent poker and now leads its group after previously sitting in fifth place. Group A is arguably one of the most competitive groups. Vanderbilt…

Overview The IPA 2022–2023 tournament resumed with Match 3 on February 4 and 5. Vanderbilt, Wesleyan, Pomona, UPenn, Carnegie Mellon and Waterloo lead their respective groups, while Manchester, Oxford, UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, Yale and Emory show strong performances. Match 3 brought many placement shifts. Vanderbilt continues to lead Group A despite a poor 16-point performance,…

Overview The IPA 2022–2023 tournament resumed with Match 2 on January 14 and 15. Vanderbilt, Wesleyan, Pomona, UPenn, Tufts and Waterloo lead their respective groups, with Vanderbilt, Wesleyan and Waterloo showing strong performances. Both past IPA champions, Boston University and Brown, trail their groups. Vanderbilt continues its dominance in Group A. Harvey Mudd maintains its…

Overview The IPA 2022–2023 tournament began with Match 1 on December 3 and 4. The tournament starts with a regular season of five matches. Each match is made up of five separate sit-and-go games run at the same time, and each team rosters five players to play across the tables. Points are totaled at the…

Overview The IPA 2021–2022 tournament concluded with the IPA Finals on June 4. Nimish Garg, Benjamin Glanz, Ian Gurland, Zachary Huang, Camran Lateef, Leo McMahon, Eli Shea, Ronnie Strode, Aaron Wang, John Wilkinson, Cottrell van Wingerden and Suzie Zhang won Brown’s second IPA title. Brown competed in Group F alongside British Columbia, Cornell, Harvey Mudd,…

Overview The IPA 2021–2022 tournament resumed with the IPA Playoffs on April 23 and 24. The IPA Playoffs conclude with Auckland, Brown, Columbia Law and Vanderbilt each securing a spot in the IPA Finals. The four finalists are the point leaders from their respective playoff groups. Group A: 5 seed Columbia Law defends its lead…

Overview The IPA 2021–2022 tournament resumed with the IPA Playoffs on April 9 and 10. The IPA Playoffs resume with Columbia Law, Auckland, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt leading their playoff groups. The playoff field is made up of the top teams from the regular season, and the leading team in each group will secure a…

Overview The IPA 2021–2022 tournament resumed with the IPA Playoffs on March 26 and 27. The IPA Playoffs kick off with UNSW, Auckland, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt leading their playoff groups. The playoff field is made up of the top teams from the regular season, and the leading team in each group will secure a…