IPA Finals (2022-2023) Recap

May 11, 2023

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Overview

The IPA 2022-2023 tournament concludes with the IPA Finals on May 6th at Susquehanna International Group’s headquarters in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

Seed	Team	Location	Points	Avg Finish	Status
13	Columbia Law	New York, NY, USA	27	1.6th	2023 IPA Champion
6	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA, USA	23	2nd	2nd
9	USC	Los Angeles, CA, USA	13	2.8th	3rd
2	Pomona	Claremont, CA, USA	7	3.6th	4th

Average: 3.5 points, Standard deviation: 2.35 points

Columbia Law wins the IPA Finals and is crowned the 2022-2023 IPA champion. Georgia Tech, USC, and Pomona follows, respectively. Columbia Law entered the playoffs as the 13 seed. Columbia Law sweeps three of the five tables while Georgia Tech sweep two.

This is Columbia Law’s second IPA Finals appearance and first IPA title. The team first competed in the 2020-2021 IPA season under the leadership of Zachary Josephs and placed 6th out of 13 teams. The team placed 4th out of 36 teams in the 2021-2022 IPA season. The team now adds a championship to their collection.

Congratulations to Daniel Cobourn, Neal Kapoor, Nathaniel Kazlow, Ethan Mandelbaum, Edward McDonald, Jonathan Pry, and Casey Sandalow.

Neal and Ethan have competed in the IPA since the 2020-2021 season.

Jonathan has competed in the IPA since the 2021-2022 season.

Daniel, Edward, and Casey have competed in the IPA since the 2022-2023 season.

IPA Finalists Pictured (top left to bottom right): Maxwell Guo (GT), Mathew Seng (GT), Michael Bonaventura (GT), JoJo Widi (PC), Aidan Wu (PC), Jan Charatan (PC), Rajan Shivaram (PC), Vikrant Goel (PC), Justin Lenderman (USC), Sean Iredell (USC) ,Shreyans Gupta (USC), Quincy Karns (USC), Conor Patten (USC), Justin Shiao (GT), Zachary Beller (GT), Jonathan Pry (CL), Casey Sandalow (CL), Edward McDonald (CL), Nathaniel Kazlow (CL), Neal Kapoor (CL), Kevin Wu (Photo Credits)