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2022-23 MS Postseason Poll / Discussion Thread

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As is tradition, I am running an MS postseason ranking poll. The poll is intended to be a ranking for the 2022-2023 season.

To vote, please send your ballots to me by email at [email protected] by 11:59pm on Wednesday, June 7th. You may vote for players, teams, or both.

General guidelines (mostly borrowed from previous years)

Anyone (coaches, players, parents, interested observers) is welcome to submit a ballot, and ballots will not be weighted.

Vote for exactly twenty-five (25) teams or players in each ballot, ranked from 1st through 25th. (The team you rank first will get 25 points, the team in second will get 24, etc.) If you send me a ballot with more than 25 entries, I will count only the first 25. If you send me a ballot with fewer than 25 entries, I will ask you to re-submit it with enough entries.

Please put "MS Quizbowl Poll" in the subject line in some fashion so I can easily search for your ballot. If you don't do this, you risk me missing your ballot.

I will name all the voters but will not specify who voted for whom -- if you want to submit your ballot anonymously please tell me.

Please be reasonable with your ballots -- if you do something like rank your own team first despite the fact that you put up 10 PPB on an MS set, I will probably ask you to re-submit your ballot.

There is no need to specify "A" or "B" unless you vote for a school's B team. If you put a school twice and do not specify A or B, I will assume this is an error and ask you to correct it.

For the team poll, please specify what state each of the teams you are voting for is from (both for my ease in cross-checking with stats, and in case there are two Smith Middle Schools that receive votes).

There is no need to conform to a standard name as long as it is unambiguous who you're voting for. Please do not use abbreviations like "BJHS" or "OMS" -- there are many schools with those abbreviations, and if it's not clear who any of your votes are for I'll ask you to clarify before I accept your ballot.

For the player poll, please specify the affiliation and state for each of the players you are voting for. Also please use their first and last name.

If you want to revise your ballot, just email me your new ballot. (Don't do something like "I want to switch my 3rd and 4th picks". Just rewrite the whole thing, please.)

Eligibility to be voted for in the poll:

Schools that fielded at least one team in a middle school all-subject quizbowl tournament this school year are eligible, even if they did not play MSNCT. Schools that played exclusively (for example) NHBB events, or schools that did not attend any tournaments as a team but one of their players attended IPNCT, are not eligible. Homeschool collectives and other non-traditional schools are eligible as long as they fit the other requirements.

Players who were in 8th grade or below for this school year and played at least one all-subject quizbowl tournament are eligible, even if they did not play MSNCT or IPNCT, or even any tournaments at the middle school level. Players who exclusively played (for example) NHBB events are not eligible.

Weirdness with A and B team designations:

In general, you should vote as though schools are playing with their best lineups. There are two primary exceptions to this of which I am aware: Sycamore (IN) and Burleigh Manor (MD) consistently split their teams by grade level at both regular-season tournaments and MSNCT. In both cases, you should designate the team of 8th graders by "A" and the team of 7th graders by "B", even though the B team outperformed the A team.

2023-24 prediction poll
Like last year, there will be a third poll this year, in which you may vote for who you think will be the top five (5) teams in the 2023-24 season. (There is not a parallel prediction poll for players.)

I encourage people to use this thread to discuss which teams and players they feel are deserving of votes. I will be making such a post at some point soon. You can (and should!) also use this thread to shout out people you think are worthy of being shouted out, regardless of whether they may or may not be in the top 25 in the country.
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I'll shill for a few GA teams.

River Trail was hands down the best team in Georgia this year, especially from January onward. They should definitely be in your top 5. It's scary to me seeing how good Sheehan Banka and Kaiden Lee have gotten this year, and they'll be back next year in 8th grade. You should definitely include them in your player poll and I'm penciling them in as a top 5 team for next season.

I think North Gwinnett was a bit overlooked this year, placing 2nd or 3rd behind River Trail at multiple tournaments and finishing T-8 at MSNCT. While the team doesn't have the flashiest stats or any top 25 players, they were definitely coached up at MSNCT and played to their full potential (compare Max Shamko's stats at Suwanee Slugfest and MSNCT) since their coaches weren't running a tournament or moderating. They should be considered somewhere in the 2nd half of the top 25 teams.

Anish Raja from South Forsyth should definitely get some consideration for individual rankings. He carried South Forsyth to T-33 at MSNCT, a win at the PAGE State Championship over River Trail (only a 12 question round, but a win is still a win) and defeated North Gwinnett in our only head to head game of the year at Suwanee Slugfest.

They're not from GA, but I'd like to give a shout out to Aditya Pippala from Baldwin Arts & Academics in Alabama. They came out to Suwanee Slugfest and proved they belonged in the playoffs at MSNCT, they just missed the top bracket at the Slugfest due to a circle of death by less than 1 PPG. Similarly to Anish, He carried Baldwin to T-33 at MSNCT and also defeated North Gwinnett at the Suwanee Slugfest.
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I encourage people to use this thread to discuss which teams and players they feel are deserving of votes. I will be making such a post at some point soon. You can (and should!) also use this thread to shout out people you think are worthy of being shouted out, regardless of whether they may or may not be in the top 25 in the country.
As promised.

First of all, here is a large database of MSNCT statistics that may be helpful in informing your votes. This is part of a larger quizbowl recordkeeping project I am working on and plan to release publicly in its entirety after HSNCT happens and I compile ICT data, but I figure this is a good reason to give a preview of it.

I'll start off with players. I'll probably make a post about teams later but I think there's better data for that so subjective descriptions are less necessary. This is both a "people I think you should vote for" and a "people I probably won't vote for but I think should still get shouted out" post.

Andrew Gao (Chenery) is, obviously, extremely good at quizbowl. He had an absurd statline of 46/14/9 in the prelims of MSNCT (only the second player ever to get both 50 PPG and a 75% power rate) and a perhaps more absurd 26/27/3 in his eight playoff games. He tied for 22nd in the high school IPNCT, which was played on a college set! I think Andrew is the best player in MS this year, and the only reason his raw scoring numbers don't reflect that is because...

Greg Zeldovich (Chenery) is also really, really good at quizbowl. Greg got the rare scoring bump from MSNCT prelims to playoffs, and more generally consistently scores 50+ points per game on high school sets while sitting next to Andrew -- in fact, Greg's PPG in the playoffs of MSNCT was the seventh-best of any player, despite suffering an extremely obvious shadow effect (and playing the whole playoffs through the winners' bracket). Greg should almost certainly be in the top ten of your ballot, and I think arguably in the top five.

On the related topic of "teams with two extremely strong players who shadow each other out of incredibly impressive individual stats", Neha Pandya and Sudhanva Belur (Challenger-Strawberry Park) are both really good at quizbowl and should probably be in your top ten. Neha in particular has a grand total of three (3) negs in her forty-two (42) career games at MSNCT, which is pretty much unheard of from players who press their buzzer as much as she does.

I think Sreekar Vajjha (Classen SAS) is my #2 player. Classen went out of MSNCT tied for 21st with two losses by a combined 15 points to teams that both ended up tied for 8th place; Sreekar was responsible for 100% of his team's live tossup conversion in playoffs (and, for that matter, went 11/19/5 on 65 tossups). The only other player to have scored over 100 PP20TUH in playoffs as an individual since playoff difficulty was increased is Arin Parsa. Classen also came closer to beating a Chenery team with both Andrew and Greg on it (a 15-point loss in TQBA's SSNCT mirror last week) than any team except River Trail has all year, and did so on a high school set. Sreekar comfortably took second at a solo event I ran the weekend before MSNCT in which several other really exceptional players mentioned in this post participated. He is unreasonably good at quizbowl.

Padraig Finan (WACA) played MSNCT solo and put up over a 50% power rate, almost 19 PPB, and a 6-2 record in prelims. Then he won two playoff games and scored almost 100 PPG in the process. He is one of the best generalists at this level I have seen; there is very little academic content he is worse than "alright" at (which is an extreme rarity even among very good middle school generalists). Vote him very highly.

Grady Noble (North) obviously knows many things, but I think his statlines actually generally underrate his skill as a player. Grady's game sense and "quizbowl IQ" are through the roof -- at MSNCT, there were multiple games where he was deliberately playing less aggressively in order to make sure he won and didn't throw the game away with a negstorm, which is, uh, extremely rare to see from a middle schooler. This sort of intelligence is even more impressive given that he has less than a year of quizbowl experience and a pretty much nonexistent local circuit -- it's obvious that he's put a lot of thought and effort into being good at quizbowl as a game and not just learning clues.

Vidyut Arvind (Anderson) is also really good and has some incredibly deep knowledge -- he got 8 powers at IPNCT, which is wild for a middle schooler. He may be one of quizbowl's best paleontology players (not that this gets a ton of points, but it's still worth shouting out).

I think you should consider voting for literally all of River Trail A somewhere in your top 25. I believe Anoop Valavoju is the first player ever at MSNCT to a) be his team's lowest scorer after prelims and b) have over 30 PPG. They all had excellent power rates and scaled up well, consistently getting early buzzes in playoff rounds against great teams. In particular, Sheehan Banka is obviously incredibly good (scoring 66 PPG when all your teammates are over 30 is pretty ridiculous).

I also want to specifically shout out Kaiden Lee from River Trail, who is without exaggeration the best middle school science player I've ever seen. River Trail played (shorthanded) a tournament on a HS set that I helped run stats for this year. They had over 25 PPB on science. I watched several of their games in the playoffs, and I think exactly one biology tossup got past the first line. Kaiden went a completely ridiculous 25/16/1 in the playoffs of MSNCT, buzzing almost exclusively on science. For those keeping score at home, that's 2.5 powers per 20 tossups heard. A middle schooler being a complete lockdown specialist on... anything really is pretty much unheard of, because at that difficulty level it requires being able to firstline almost everything. Kaiden does that on biology. If I were a coach, there would be very few players I would want on my team more than him.

Haughton Neppl (Cooper) and Satvik Jain (Burleigh Manor) both led teams that played Sunday afternoon at MSNCT and got more than a 50% power rate in playoffs while doing so. They're really good at quizbowl. Also Satvik isn't even in eighth grade. Speaking of people who aren't even in eighth grade, Ian Cheng (Colvin Run Elementary) is in FIFTH grade and went 8/13/1 in four playoff games, while leading his team of exceedingly tiny children to tie for 21st in the country. That's unreal.

Krish Nathan (Bumpus) did not play MSNCT but you should vote for him highly anyway; he averaged 121 ppg without powers on a team that easily won the Alabama MS state championship (and put up comparable PPB numbers to some of the best MS teams in the country), and was the vast majority of the scoring on Hoover HS's frosh-soph team, which took one out of three games against noted very good team Alabama Cyber Tech in getting second at states. He put up 16/13/10 in 10 games on a very balanced Hoover HS team at this tournament. These are comparable stats to those put up by many of the best players at MSNCT; I think Krish should probably be in your top 10 players at least.

There were a few players I noticed who may not have done a ton of scoring but the scoring they did do was clearly both impressive and important. Ray Zhao (Cooper) and Elias Wright (Noe) both put up 75% power rates in prelims, and Elias followed that up with 3/0/1 in three playoff games for a final power rate of 80%, making him the first player in six years (when playoffs weren't harder) and only the fifth ever to put up over an 80% power rate on 10 or more correct answers. Aditya Ambike (Beckendorff) was one get away from joining him, going 8/1/1 in prelims, including 3/0/0 against Edgewood in a game Beckendorff A won by 60 points. And perhaps most importantly, Jeffrey Wu (Chenery), who had never scored more than 20 points in a game and had only even done that twice in his career, going 1/1/0 in the second game of the finals, both on live tossups, might just be one of the clutchest performances I've ever seen in quizbowl.

This was a bumper year for people playing a lot of quizbowl -- over the 11 previous MSNCTs, there were 25 players who both scored 50 pp20tuh and negged at least 10% of the questions they heard. This year there were 10 such players, most notably Arjun Vijaykumar (Redwood), who put up the truly incredible statline of 49/47/42 over 14 games and led his team to tie for 8th place. Arjun's aggression clearly paid off, as he powered at least two tossups in every playoff game, including an excellent 4/4/4 line in a win over Sycamore A. Aiden Younessian (Middlesex) had an even more impressive statline of 56/47/36. That's a lot of powers.

Various other assorted shoutouts: I have never actually seen Anish Raja (South Forsyth) play, but his stats are good and people who have seen him play generally assert him to be one of the best geography players in the nation (a title for which there is typically much competition). Evan Ting (Sycamore) is incredibly good at history and a very solid player overall. Aditya Pippala (Baldwin) provided most of the scoring for a team that beat Classen en route to 6-2 in prelims; he clearly knows things. Alex Ewart (Annunciation Orthodox) has been pretty consistently solid throughout the year and was very unfortunate not to make playoffs, as was the team led by Matthew Yang (Burleigh Manor). Amory Kaufman (Providence) hits the buzzer with great frequency and obviously has some really good knowledge. Taylor Chen (Avery Trace) had a 35% power rate in MSNCT prelims and is also in fifth grade (!!!!); he seems to have done pretty well in the consolation matches too, suggesting a level of scaling I do not generally expect from a fifth grader. Adrish Bhattacharyya (Churchill) is in 6th grade and led Churchill B to t-21; he also became the second A. Bhattacharyya from Churchill to neg 30 times at an MSNCT. If he continues taking after his brother I foresee good things.

There are many people I didn't mention who are also very good. If I mentioned every impressive statistical record I found and every good player I saw, I would be writing this until 2am. If I didn't mention you, that doesn't mean I don't think you're good. I don't even think I've mentioned everyone I'll put on my top 25 ballot (and there are vastly more than 25 really impressive players). Also -- if you think I've forgotten someone, you should post in this thread to tell me, and others, all about how good they are!
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I’ll join in on the fun, and uhm, cheer for the Northeast!

Chenery. Chenery is a team you just cannot not have on your list. I have ranked them at #1, as have probably most of you all. As the champions of MSNCT, they are obviously incredible, and they were also the runner-ups last year. Their player Andrew Gao is almost certainly the best middle school quizbowl player this year, but he doesn’t carry the team at all! Gregory Zeldovich is known for his skill, especially on playoff questions (a person who I will not name has given Gregory the nickname Playoff Zeldovich). Jeffrey Wu and Fergus Williams pulled some very good buzzes as well.

Clarke. Clarke is also incredible, pulling off a t-13 finish at MSNCT. Alvan Hossain and Aadi Pudasaini are extremely good players, but the team is also very balanced, with others players being as Amal Balachundhar, Shishir Bharadwaj, and Melody Zou. Clarke was also notably not full at MSNCT, missing Andrew Wu, a very good player who just didn’t feel like going to MSNCT.

Hunter. I was definitely prejudiced against Hunter for a while (as part of a New York City team myself), but they have proven to be a formidable (and friendly) team. Kieran Torpey is a very good science player, Theo Kronby is a very good literature player, and the supporting cast of Romir Mukherjee, Sam Shottes, and Walker Varghese is excellent. They also finished t-13 at MSNCT.

Shoutout to my teammates and for making this all possible for us; shoutout to every MSNCT player for making it fun for everyone; shoutout to Ms. Kozol for training us; and most of all, shoutout to Conor for being a W mod!
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I will shout out some. of the players and teams I will be voting for in this poll (in rough order from first to 25th)!

Team poll
- River Trail gets the a #2 vote on my poll given how close they were to us in finals this year. The formula of an extremely balanced team with insane science coverage made for an excellent MSNCT team. Obviously, we are far from infallible, but River Trail was our only loss this season to a middle school team when playing full -- congrats on second to River Trail! I hope the trend of the second-place MSNCT team getting first the following year continues.
- Challenger-Strawberry Park was the team we feared going into MSNCT. It's hard to understate how crazy it was that they twice beat a team of Mira Loma's seniors (who finished t13 in this year's HSNCT). That, along with similarly crazy results from MSNCT (such as getting 600 points in a playoffs game), make me believe that CSP should be ranked #3. Neha Pandya, Sudhanva Belur, Karthika Jayakumar, Anish Roy, and Anika Ganu all deserve recognition (and in the case of Neha and Sudhanva, t25 player votes) for their strength this season, not to mention the countless friendly encounters I had with the team.
- Cooper was another very good team this season that we feared early on. Eshaan Sombhatta's science knowledge combined with Haughton Neppl's deep history knowledge, and the support of teammates Ray Zhao, Edward Guo, and Orin Das made for a very deserving third-place MSNCT team! I am voting Cooper as #4 in my poll.
- Middlesex, as always, had an incredible team even while losing some very good eighth graders last year. Aiden Younessian was good from the start, but Anika Bansal's contribution to the team should not be overlooked. Anika and Aiden are both getting t20 player poll votes, and I think Middlesex will continue being good next year. As for this year, I'm ranking them #5.
- Burleigh Manor B, led by Satvik Jain, will continue impressing me. Though I still have yet to watch them play this season, the team of Satvik, Henry, Sahil, and Rohan has existed for about as long as I've been in quizbowl. I believe the team has been playing since elementary school, and I'm certain they'll do even better next year as a team of all eighth graders.
- Classen SAS is another t10 team in my book. Sreekar Vajjha is clearly very good at quizbowl and especially at higher difficulties- he went 6-4 with 33 powers at MINT on DART III (not an easy set!).
- Washington Connections is another team to shout out- Padraig Finan soloing his way to t21 at MSNCT was honestly something I saw coming (and feared) as Padraig did so well in the regular season. These specific stats were not posted, but Padraig got 17.17 PPB solo on a set of 60 HS Regs bonuses used to seed MSPAINT (an individual MS tournament). He had some truly impressive stats at MSNCT too, getting 7 or more powers in a majority of his prelim games.
- I would definitely like to shout out our fellow Massachusetts neighbor, Clarke! Alvan Hossain, Aadi Pudasaini, Shishir Bharadwaj, Amal Balachundhar, and Melody Zou made for a team that did indeed pull off very good upsets at MSNCT. Most notably, they stopped Burleigh Manor A from making playoffs in a somewhat blowout 470-275 win. I played with Alvan and Shishir on team Massachusetts for MINT and can attest they are quite good, with strengths in PSS and sports respectively.
- Churchill was definitely my favorite team this year, and their program (coached by Mr. Hansen, who is awesome), did not disappoint with all THREE (!!) of their teams finishing t21.Meghna Rao, Nicholas Munkhbaatar, Amy Lu, and Jeremiah Choi are fantastic players who know many things. I will be voting for their A team in the t20, but definitely do not overlook their B team led by Adrish Bhattacharyya. He is Aatreyo's younger brother, and mark my words, will be a very scary seventh grader next year.
- Lastly, I would like to shout out North, from Idaho to round out my t25 teams. Grady Noble only started quizbowl this year (though I think he did IAC before quizbowl), and is extremely impressive with good knowledge in geography, history, trash, and so much more. Again, leading a team to a t33 finish at MSNCT isn't easy, so I will also be voting for Grady in my t10 players.

For the player poll: in addition to most of the people I shouted out above, I am also voting for Krish Nathan (Bumpus), Vidyut Arvind (Anderson), Gregory Zeldovich (Chenery), Arjun Vijaykumar (Redwood), Evan Ting (Sycamore), Sameer Zaidi (Sycamore), Anish Raja (South Forsyth), Alex Ewart (Annunciation Orthodox), Arman Makhani (Greenhill), and Ian Cheng (Colvin Run).

I would like to point out that many of the people I am voting for aren't even eighth graders- I am very interested to see how next season will pan out, even though I won't be in middle school quizbowl anymore. When I started in sixth grade, I would not have never imagined that there was so much other talent in my grade and grades even younger than mine. Regardless of whether I mentioned you or not, improvement is something that is hard to quantify but so, so, cool to see. To everyone who made this year's MSNCT possible, or this year's quizbowl season possible, or even just middle school quizbowl in general, thank you. It was very nice seeing everyone at nationals, and I hope to see you all again at HSNCT or at some other tournament!
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the fact that Ian Cheng (A FIFTH GRADER) managed to be in andrew gao's voting poll is mad. mad. mad.


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I'm gonna extremely unbiasedly shout out my former middle school team: Beckendorff A, who were one tossup away from being t13 and are the first team (ranked by W-L first and then PPG, I think) on the list of t21 teams on the MSNCT stats page. They also won TQBA State, beating out other good Texas teams such as Annunciation Orthodox and Greenhill, who, for what it's worth, are also deserving of votes. I definitely think that everyone should have them in the 20s or potentially low 10s of their team poll.
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Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll. Thanks to our voters: myself, Vidyut Arvind, John Augustyn, Padraig Finan (players only), Andrew Gao, Amory Kaufman (players only), Joshua Li, Sreekar Vajjha, Dhanya Velkur, Dylan Zhang (teams only), and Melody Zou.

This was a particularly banner year in terms of the general field strength -- there was remarkably little consensus, with 29 (!!) different players receiving votes that put them in the top 15. There were a lot more than 25 very strong middle school players this year.

Here are the results from the player poll:
1. Andrew Gao, Chenery (247 points, 9 first place votes, low 4)
2. Padraig Finan, Washington Connections (235 points, high 2, low 4)
3. Sreekar Vajjha, Classen SAS (221 points, 1 first place vote, low 16)
4. Neha Pandya, Challenger-Strawberry Park (207 points, high 4, low 9)
5. Vidyut Arvind, Anderson (204 points, high 3, low 11)
6. Gregory Zeldovich, Chenery (173 points, high 2, low 13)
7. Aiden Younessian, Middlesex (168 points, high 5, low 24)
T-8. Grady Noble, North (165 points, high 5, low 13)
T-8. Haughton Neppl, Cooper (165 points, high 6, low 16)
10. Sudhanva Belur, Challenger-Strawberry Park (161 points, high 5, low 14)
11. Krish Nathan, Bumpus (149 points, high 5, ranked by 8/10 ballots)
12. Evan Ting, Sycamore (134 points, high 6, low 18)
13. Satvik Jain, Burleigh Manor (123 points, high 7, ranked by 9/10 ballots)
14. Eshaan Sombhatta, Cooper (114 points, high 11, ranked by 9/10 ballots)
15. Kaiden Lee, River Trail (79 points, high 5, ranked by 8/10 ballots)
16. Anish Raja, South Forsyth (72 points, high 12, ranked by 9/10 ballots)
17. Sheehan Banka, River Trail (69 points, high 13, ranked by 7/10 ballots)
18. Arjun Vijaykumar, Redwood (55 points, high 14, ranked by 7/10 ballots)
19. Sameer Zaidi, Sycamore (50 points, high 15, ranked by 6/10 ballots)
T-20. Alvan Hossain, Clarke (43 points, high 14, ranked by 5/10 ballots)
T-20. Anika Bansal, Middlesex (43 points, high 15, ranked by 5/10 ballots)
22. Arman Makhani, Greenhill (35 points, high 14, ranked by 7/10 ballots)
T-23. Alex Ewart, Annunciation Orthodox (30 points, high 16, ranked by 5/10 ballots)
T-23. Matthew Yang, Burleigh Manor (30 points, high 15, ranked by 5/10 ballots)
25. Jacob Wu, Oak Valley (29 points, high 12, ranked by 3/10 ballots)

Also receiving votes:
Jason Hu, Adams (27)
Aditya Pippala, Baldwin (23)
Nicholas Munkhbataar, Churchill (23)
Samin Asif, Beckendorff (23)
Andrew Li, Emerson (17)
Ian Cheng, Colvin Run Elementary (17)
Meghna Rao, Churchill (17)
Amory Kaufman, Providence (11)
Kieran Torpey, Hunter (11)
Tomal Khan, Greenhill (11)
Adrish Bhattacharyya, Churchill (10)
Charlie Maida, St. Benedict (9)
Vishnu Rao, Bret Harte (8)
Ray Zhao, Cooper (6)
Spencer Manning, Daniel Wright (6)
Shravan Yoagentharan, Burleigh Manor (5)
Anoop Valavoju, River Trail (4)
Arjun Singampalli, Challenger-Ardenwood (2)
Ray Claret, River Trail (2)
Akilangandhi Chidambaranathan, BASIS Pflugerville (1)
Ryca Finan, Homeschool (1)


And the results from the team poll:
1. Chenery, Belmont, MA (225 points, unanimous #1)
2. River Trail, Johns Creek, GA (216 points, unanimous #2)
3. Cooper A, McLean, VA (200 points, high 3, low 5)
4. Challenger-Strawberry Park, San Jose, CA (197 points, high 3, low 6)
5. Middlesex, Darien, CT (191 points, high 3, low 6)
6. Anderson, New York, NY (186 points, high 3, low 6)
7. Burleigh Manor B, Ellicott City, MD (163 points, high 7, low 10)
8. Sycamore B, Indianapolis, IN (147 points, high 7, low 13)
9. Meyzeek, Louisville, KY (122 points, high 8, ranked by 8/9 ballots)
T-10. Clarke, Lexington, MA (108 points, high 8, low 21)
T-10. Sycamore A, Indianapolis, IN (108 points, high 10, low 19)
12. Washington Connections, Tumwater, WA (104 points, high 7, low 24)
T-13. Hunter, New York, NY (99 points, high 11, low 19)
T-13. Redwood, Saratoga, CA (99 points, high 9, ranked by 8/9 ballots)
15. Classen SAS, Oklahoma City, OK (92 points, high 10, ranked by 8/9 ballots)
16. Hopkins, Fremont, CA (89 points, high 9, ranked by 7/9 ballots)
17. Greenhill, Addison, TX (81 points, high 8, ranked by 8/9 ballots)
18. Churchill A, Carmichael, CA (78 points, high 12, ranked by 8/9 ballots)
19. North Gwinnett, Sugar Hill, GA (70 points, high 11, ranked by 7/9 ballots)
20. Oak Valley, San Diego, CA (64 points, high 8, ranked by 8/9 ballots)
21. Beckendorff, Katy, TX (46 points, high 11, ranked by 7/9 ballots)
22. Noe, Louisville, KY (43 points, high 9, ranked by 6/9 ballots)
23. Bumpus, Hoover, AL (26 points, high 7, ranked by 3/9 ballots)
T-24. Chapin School, Princeton, NJ (24 points, high 13, ranked by 4/9 ballots)
T-24. North, Boise, ID (24 points, high 17, ranked by 5/9 ballots)

Also receiving votes:
Colvin Run Elementary, Vienna, VA (17)
Cooper B, McLean, VA (15)
Westminster, Atlanta, GA (14)
BASIS McLean, McLean, VA (13)
T. H. Rogers, Houston, TX (13)
Burleigh Manor A, Ellicott City, MD (12)
South Forsyth, Cumming, GA (12)
Longfellow, Falls Church, VA (8)
Adams, Fulshear, TX (6)
Bret Harte, San Jose, CA (5)
Churchill B, Carmichael, CA (5)
Challenger-Berryessa, San Jose, CA (2)
Springfield Franklin, Springfield, IL (1)


There were six ballots for the prediction poll (me, Vidyut, Andrew, Joshua, Sreekar, and Melody). Here are the results:

1. Burleigh Manor (28 points, 5 first place votes, low 3)
2. Sycamore (17 points, high 2, ranked on 5/6 ballots)
3. River Trail (14 points, high 2, ranked on 4/6 ballots)
4. Greenhill (12 points, 1 first place vote, ranked on 4/6 ballots)
5. Redwood (10 points, high 3, ranked on 5/6 ballots)
Churchill (7)
Cooper (1)
Longfellow (1)


Thanks again to everyone who voted, and congratulations again to everyone who was voted for on a great season.
Conor Thompson (he/it)
Bangor High School '16
University of Michigan '20
Iowa State University '25
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