IPA (2024 – 2025) Match 3 Recap

Overview

The 2024–2025 season resumed on February 15 with Match 3.

Wisconsin, Waterloo, Vanderbilt, Cambridge, Oxford and Michigan lead their respective groups, while UNC, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Yale and Harvard post strong weeks in pursuit of playoff spots.

Wisconsin continues to lead Group A despite a relatively poor week, as Cornell and McGill close the gap. The top three teams keep a moderate cushion over Bocconi, which dropped from 2nd to 4th this week, and USC. Tufts brings up the rear after a penalized week.

Average 27.0 pts·Std. dev. 11.63·Penalties 8

Waterloo stays at the top of Group B, with Yale and Virginia in hot pursuit. Yale moves from 4th to 2nd and Chicago jumps two places to 4th despite a penalty, while Virginia falls into the wildcard spot and Emory slips from 3rd to last.

Average 27.67 pts·Std. dev. 11.72·Penalties 3

Group C is characterized by the tight grouping of its top 4 teams. Vanderbilt and Harvard move up one place into 1st and 3rd, respectively, with Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon each dropping a place into 2nd and 4th. Claremont McKenna partially closes its large gap, while Imperial remains far behind.

Average 26.5 pts·Std. dev. 9.81·Penalties 2

Group D features two of the IPA’s premier teams, Cambridge and Johns Hopkins, tied at the top with 114 total points each. There was no movement in the standings, though Northwestern posted a strong week that increases its playoff cushion over Berkeley. The bottom three teams, Berkeley, Occidental and Harvey Mudd, were heavily penalized this week.

Average 24.17 pts·Std. dev. 16.71·Penalties 34

Oxford remains at the top of Group E, while a big week from Wake Forest lifts it into 2nd, and the biggest score of the week, 55 points, puts North Carolina in the wildcard spot. Princeton drops from 2nd to 4th but remains in playoff contention, while Booth and Washington trail.

Average 24.67 pts·Std. dev. 20.38·Penalties 11

There was no change in the Group F standings. Michigan and Brown continue to pull away from the rest of the group as playoff contenders, while MIT comes within 1 point of Duke for the wildcard spot. Warwick, NYU and Penn are mostly out of playoff contention.

Average 23.71 pts·Std. dev. 12.30·Penalties 10

Match 3 Table Leaders

Name	Team
Alex Baek	Cornell University
Jack Barrett	Claremont McKenna College
Timothy Bello	Northwestern University
Michael Chang	University of Wisconsin
Nemmo Ciccone	University of Virginia
Hari Desikan	Carnegie Mellon University
Luke Freund	McGill University
Vincent Gao	Harvard College
Fergus Selsdon Games	University of Cambridge
Thomas Guo	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jacob Hartman	University of North Carolina
Allen He	Johns Hopkins University
Eric Jiang	University of Waterloo
Amrit Kohli	Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael Lee	Cornell University
Robert Lewison	University of North Carolina
John Liu	Yale University
Darsh Patel	University of California Berkeley
Alexander Prather	University of Michigan
Weiguo Qiu	New York University
Neil Shah	Yale University
Oliver Tu	Brown University
Sunny Wang	University of Pennsylvania
August Warshauer	University of North Carolina
Austin Wilson	Harvard College
Zichong Zhang	Wake Forest University
Ryan Zhao	McGill University
Yunke Zhao	Oxford University
Joshua Zheng	University of Waterloo
Evan Zhu	Johns Hopkins University

Group A

Team	Points	Match 3	Change
Wisconsin	110	21	No change
Cornell	94	44	Up 2
McGill	91	38	No change
Bocconi	75	22	Down 2
USC	74	24	No change
Tufts	58	13	No change

Group B

Team	Points	Match 3	Change
Waterloo	99	36	No change
Yale	97	43	Up 2
Virginia	89	30	Down 1
Chicago	78	25	Up 2
Caltech	76	23	No change
Emory	65	9	Down 3

Group C

Team	Points	Match 3	Change
Vanderbilt	106	34	Up 1
Georgia Tech	99	23	Down 1
Harvard	96	40	Up 1
Carnegie Mellon	88	20	Down 1
Claremont McKenna	66	29	No change
Imperial	38	13	No change

Group D

Team	Points	Match 3	Change
Cambridge	114	30	No change
Johns Hopkins	114	46	No change
Northwestern	98	36	No change
Berkeley	80	23	No change
Occidental	31	3	No change
Harvey Mudd	27	7	No change

Group E

Team	Points	Match 3	Change
Oxford	121	28	No change
Wake Forest	107	38	Up 1
North Carolina	89	55	Up 2
Princeton	77	6	Down 2
Booth	56	21	Down 1
Washington	16	0	No change

Group F

Team	Points	Match 3	Change
Michigan	118	28	No change
Brown	111	38	No change
Duke	78	25	No change
MIT	77	35	No change
Warwick	39	1	No change
NYU	38	18	No change
UPenn	31	21	No change

Updates

The IPA season will resume on March 1, 2025.