IPA (2025 – 2026) Finals Recap

Overview

The IPA 2025–2026 tournament concluded with the IPA Finals on April 11.

Seed	Team	Location	Points	Avg Finish	Status
6	Cambridge	Cambridge, England, UK	30	1.4	2026 IPA Champion
7	Penn	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	15	2.8	2nd
9	Waterloo	Waterloo, Ontario, CA	13	2.8	3rd
4	New York	New York, New York, USA	12	3.0	4th

Average 3.5 pts·Std. dev. 2.29

Cambridge wins the IPA Finals and is crowned the 2025–2026 IPA champion, followed by Penn, Waterloo and New York. Cambridge entered the playoffs as the 6 seed and won four of the five tables in a dominant performance. This is Cambridge’s first IPA title.

Congratulations to Bobby Luo, Cedric Khua, Chenxi Zhang, Dan Heathcote, Ethan Yeo, Harrison Emery, Hongwoo Choi, Jas Kang, Matthew Zhang, Nicholas Land, Patrick Thomas, and Seyane Sivarakulan.

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	1.2	2026 IPA Challenger Champion
1	Illinois	Champaign, Illinois, USA	15	1.8

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.

IPA Challenger Finals Table Results

Table 1

Team	Name	Placement	Points
Toronto	Suyash Shivhare	1st	15
Illinois	Zhenglun Gavin Wu	2nd	0

Table 2

Team	Name	Placement	Points
Toronto	Shaanveer Sandhu	1st	15
Illinois	Eric Song	2nd	0

Table 3

Team	Name	Placement	Points
Toronto	Edric Zhou	1st	15
Illinois	Dylan Wu	2nd	0

Table 4

Team	Name	Placement	Points
Toronto	Larry Li	1st	15
Illinois	Nathan Natoli	2nd	0

Table 5

Team	Name	Placement	Points
Illinois	Patrick Smith	1st	15
Toronto	Eric Liao	2nd	0