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2017 Middle School National Championship Tournament

Date:	Friday, May 12, 2017 – Sunday, May 14, 2017
Host:	Hyatt Regency DFW (Dallas, TX)

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	William Groger	8th	Miami Valley	8	192	63	37	12	63.0%	130.73
2	Shiva Oswal	7th	Pi-oneers	8	191	50	30	7	62.5%	106.28
3	Robert Muñiz	7th	Midtown Classical A	8	191	54	23	9	70.1%	104.19
4	Isak Dai	8th	Mounds Park	8	191	43	37	8	53.8%	102.09
5	Cooper Roh	7th	Keith Country Day	8	190	44	34	14	56.4%	97.89
6	Aditya Singh	8th	Valley Ridge	8	182	21	59	15	26.2%	91.21
7	Jathin Desan	8th	Nelson	8	179	24	49	9	32.9%	89.94
8	Arjun Nageswaran	8th	Aptakisic	8	189	33	38	11	46.5%	86.77
9	Avi Mehta	8th	Dalton School	8	187	23	49	9	31.9%	84.49
10	Aditya Indla	7th	Challenger-Ardenwood	8	191	32	36	8	47.1%	83.77
11	Hunter Bailey	8th	Columbia Independent A	8	184	13	55	2	19.1%	79.89
12	Lasal Mapitigama	8th	Cavallini	8	191	28	43	18	39.4%	79.58
13	Lukas Koutsoukos	6th	Middlebrook	8	188	18	49	6	26.9%	77.66
14	Zach Halberstam	8th	Emerson A	8	192	33	29	10	53.2%	76.56
15	Karan Gurazada	8th	BASIS Silicon Valley	8	190	38	21	13	64.4%	75.26
16	Arjun Bothra	8th	Sunol Glen	8	191	23	41	10	35.9%	73.82
17	Daniel Liu	8th	Smith (MI)	8	181	31	24	9	56.4%	72.93
18	Nate Hanrahan	8th	Roosevelt	7	157	16	35	7	31.4%	70.70
19	Kyle Shi	8th	Fallon	8	185	23	37	13	38.3%	70.27
20	Sidharth Nair	7th	Beckendorff A	7	165	12	40	1	23.1%	69.70
21	Elijah Rothstein	8th	Parnassus Prep	8	185	20	36	4	35.7%	69.19
22	Avinash Iyer	8th	Hopkins	8	191	35	19	11	64.8%	69.11
23	Nick Zhang	8th	River Dell	8	189	23	36	11	39.0%	68.78
24	Will Fowlkes	8th	Mountain View	8	188	15	45	6	25.0%	68.62
25	Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	7th	Smith (NC)	8	189	29	25	12	53.7%	66.14

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	Pavan Venkatakrishnan	6th	Meyzeek	8	192	24	29	8	45.3%	63.54
2	Johnny Miri	7th	Holy Family	8	185	12	41	7	22.6%	60.00
3	Brandon Yu	6th	Western	8	186	19	32	10	37.3%	59.68
4	Ean Casey	7th	Norfolk Academic Guild	8	190	21	26	5	44.7%	57.89
5	Andy Schwebel	7th	Highlands	8	184	15	33	7	31.2%	56.52
6	Alexander Mitchell	7th	St. Clare of Assisi	6	117	4	29	6	12.1%	54.70

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