IPA (2025 – 2026) Playoffs Match 1 Recap

February 21, 2026

IPA 2025 - 2026

Overview

The IPA 2025–2026 tournament resumed with the first IPA Playoffs match on February 21.

Waterloo, Penn and Dartmouth lead their groups after the opening playoff match, while Boston College and Cambridge share the lead in Group C. Waterloo and Penn each win four of their five tables.

9 seed Waterloo, the defending IPA champion, leads Group A with 29 points, 12 ahead of 8 seed Michigan. 16 seed Emory and 1 seed WashU are tied on 12, 17 points off the lead.

Average 17.50 pts·Std. dev. 6.95·Penalties 0

7 seed Penn leads Group B with 30 points, the highest total of the match. 2 seed Imperial and 10 seed Wake Forest are tied for second on 15, and 15 seed Virginia trails on 10.

Average 17.50 pts·Std. dev. 7.50·Penalties 0

3 seed Boston College and 6 seed Cambridge are level at the top of Group C on 21 points, with Boston College winning two tables. 11 seed Yale is four points behind, and 14 seed Warwick sits on 11.

Average 17.50 pts·Std. dev. 4.09·Penalties 0

Group D is the tightest of the four, with three points separating first from last. 13 seed Dartmouth leads on 19, followed by 4 seed NYU on 18, 12 seed Cornell on 17 and 5 seed Georgia Tech on 16. Every team in the group won at least one table.

Average 17.50 pts·Std. dev. 1.12·Penalties 0

Playoff Match 1 Table Leaders

Name	Team
Thanawitch Chatbipho	Warwick
Brandon Du	Yale
Christian Gensbigler	Dartmouth
Fernando Gomez	Boston College
Rowan Goranson	Boston College
Brandon Kwan	Waterloo
Finnegan Lamb	Dartmouth
Leo Li	Penn
Michael Liu	Imperial
Chaelsey Park	Penn
Max Saito	Cornell
Justin Shiao	Georgia Tech
Seyane Sivarakulan	Cambridge
Matthew Wang	Waterloo
Sunny Wang	Penn
Albert Wei	Emory
Andy Xu	NYU
Kaiwen Xu	Waterloo
Kerry Zhao	Penn
Joshua Zheng	Waterloo