2019 Middle School National Championship Tournament

Date:	Friday, May 10, 2019 – Sunday, May 12, 2019
Location:	Hyatt Regency O'Hare Chicago (Rosemont, IL)

All-Star

The tournament All-Stars, based on performance over the eight preliminary games, were as follows:

Eligibility for the All-Star award required having heard at least 100 tossups in the preliminary rounds.
#	Player	Year	Team	GP	TUH	P	TU	I	P%	PP20TUH
1	Arin Parsa	6th	Challenger-Almaden	8	192	61	48	14	56.0%	138.02
2	Pareekshith Krishna	8th	Hopkins	8	191	40	51	10	44.0%	110.99
3	Lukas Koutsoukos	8th	Middlebrook	8	186	41	49	22	45.6%	106.99
4	Siddharth Kamannavar	8th	Stratford Preparatory	8	188	47	35	18	57.3%	102.66
5	Rohan Ganeshan	7th	Quest Academy	8	169	37	33	12	52.9%	97.63
6	Brandon Yu	8th	Western	8	192	43	29	17	59.7%	88.54
7	Ryan Lee	8th	Copley-Fairlawn	8	187	28	42	7	40.0%	86.10
8	Andrew Shi	8th	Cooper	8	181	19	47	5	28.8%	80.66
9	Kenji Sakaie	8th	Heights	8	191	18	51	9	26.1%	76.96
10	Sahas Goli	7th	Challenger-Strawberry Park	8	188	25	47	26	34.7%	76.06
11	Autzen Hallock	8th	Palmetto Scholars Academy	8	175	19	41	8	31.7%	74.86
12	Saketh Dontaraju	8th	Keith Country Day	8	184	19	50	20	27.5%	74.46
13	Andrew Minagar	8th	Caddo A	8	190	21	48	18	30.4%	74.21
14	Cavan Gabaldon O'Neill	8th	BASIS McLean	8	174	27	33	19	45.0%	73.56
15	Anurag Sodhi	7th	Burleigh Manor	8	190	23	43	17	34.8%	72.63
16	Ipsita Bhattacharya	7th	North Gwinnett A	8	189	23	35	2	39.7%	72.49
17	Anthony Troullier	8th	Mounds Park A	8	181	7	54	1	11.5%	70.72
18	Aadit Juneja	8th	Aptakisic	8	192	35	19	8	64.8%	70.31
19	Rishabh Wuppalapati	8th	Daniel Wright	8	190	30	29	16	50.8%	69.47
20	Richard Lin	8th	Mesa Verde	8	188	16	43	4	27.1%	69.15
21	Walker Pierce	8th	Mississippi Pinebelt	8	188	20	41	13	32.8%	68.62
22	Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	8th	Hunter A	8	187	30	22	6	57.7%	68.45
23	Andrew Holzinger	8th	Miami Valley	8	189	17	40	2	29.8%	68.25
24	Pavan Venkatakrishnan	8th	Odle	8	191	23	37	13	38.3%	68.06
25	Tyler Clement	8th	Lost Mountain	8	188	13	46	7	22.0%	65.96
26	Kshaunish Shaik	7th	Westwood School	8	175	6	52	7	10.3%	65.71
27	Rick Qian	8th	Wayzata West	8	185	15	49	23	23.4%	64.86
28	Alex Crowell	8th	Thurgood Marshall	8	186	7	53	7	11.7%	64.52
29	Alex Adkins	8th	Annunciation Orthodox A	8	185	25	31	18	44.6%	64.32
30	Ian McElreath	7th	Smith B (NC)	8	186	22	33	13	40.0%	63.98

Rising Star

The Rising Stars (non-eighth graders), based on performance over the eight preliminary games, were as follows:

Eligibility for the Rising Star award required having heard at least 100 tossups in the preliminary rounds.
#	Player	Year	Team	GP	TUH	P	TU	I	P%	PP20TUH
1	Charles Young	7th	Barrington Middle-Station A	8	185	18	32	7	36.0%	60.00
2	Camron Baldwin	7th	River Oaks Baptist	8	186	12	38	3	24.0%	58.60
3	Nikky Nandipati	7th	Greenhill	8	191	20	26	1	43.5%	58.12
4	Olin Bose	7th	Briarcliff	8	187	14	34	4	29.2%	56.68
5	Henry Seegars	7th	Chamblee	8	184	16	34	13	32.0%	55.98
6	Angelo Ciarelli	7th	St. Patrick	8	185	12	38	11	24.0%	54.59
7	Aarush Zarabi	6th	Bret Harte	8	186	18	23	2	43.9%	52.69
8	Brad Cao	5th	Centennial Lane Elementary	8	184	17	27	12	38.6%	50.54

Explanation of Statistics

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