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{{Tourneybox|Tournament Name = 2019 [[NAQT]] [[MSNCT]]
|champion = [[Hunter|Hunter A]] 
|second = [[Churchill Middle|Churchill A]]
|third = [[Hopkins]]
|fourth = [[Liberty Middle (AL) | Liberty]]  
|scorer = [[Arin Parsa]]
|editors = [[NAQT]]
|site = Chicago, Illinois
|field = 176 teams
|stats = [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=9499]
| }}The '''2019 NAQT MSNCT''' was held at the '''Hyatt Regency O’Hare''' on May 10-12, 2019. [[Hunter|Hunter A]] (New York City, New York) beat [[Churchill Middle|Churchill A]] (Carmichael, California) to win the [[MSNCT]] title and make [[Hunter]] the first school to have won all three of the main high school and middle school nationals: [[PACE]], [[HSNCT]], and [[MSNCT]]. [[Hunter|Hunter A]]'s top scorers were [[Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt]] with 60.26 PPG and [[Ian Lu]] with 58.96 PPG. [[Hopkins]] (Fremont, California) placed third, while [[Liberty Middle (AL)|Liberty]] (Madison, Alabama) came in 4th place. The highest scorer was [[Arin Parsa]] with 124.05 PPG<br/>

==Summary==
Each team at the 2019 MSNCT played eight preliminary rounds. [[Hunter|Hunter A]] took the first playoff seed after going 8-0. Teams had to have at least a 5-3 record to advance to the double-elimination playoff, which, for the first time, would be held on questions more similar to NAQT IS sets. 

[[Hunter|Hunter A]] was defeated by [[Liberty Middle (AL)|Liberty]] 355-275 in the second round of playoffs, and went on to fight their way through the lower bracket, eliminating [[Midtown Classical]], [[Burleigh Manor]], [[Daniel Wright]], and [[Aptakisic]] to climb back to the top 4. Meanwhile, [[Churchill Middle|Churchill A]] defeated [[Liberty Middle (AL)|Liberty]] 305-210 to claim a spot in the finals. 

[[Churchill Middle|Churchill A]] and [[Hunter|Hunter A]] then played, in a game in which if [[Churchill Middle|Churchill A]] won they would advance to the finals with advantage, while if [[Hunter|Hunter A]] won they would play the winner of the game between 2 card [[Liberty Middle (AL)|Liberty]] and 3 card [[Hopkins]] for a spot in a one-game final against [[Churchill Middle|Churchill A]]. [[Hunter|Hunter A]] won 415-225, then defeated [[Hopkins]] 435-130 to advance to the final against [[Churchill Middle|Churchill A]].

The finals were chaotic, with multiple protests. The game ended on tossup 21 when [[Moxie Strom]] powered on [[Oliver Twist]] and the clock ran out during the bonus, resulting in a 280-250 [[Hunter|Hunter A]] victory.

NAQT gave out All-Star awards to the top 30 players in the tournament, and Rising Star awards to the top eight non-eighth grade players. The top All-Star was [[Arin Parsa]] with 138.02 PPG, who was followed by [[Pareekshith Krishna]] with 110.99 PPG and [[Lukas Koutsoukos]] with 106.99 PPG, respectively.

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 | R1a-seed1 = 13 
 | R1a-team1 = Aptakisic
 | R1a-score1 = 245
 | R1a-seed2 = 1
 | R1a-team2 = Hunter
 | R1a-score2 = '''425'''
  
 | R1b-seed1 = 2
 | R1b-team1 = Hopkins
 | R1b-score1 = '''470'''
 | R1b-seed2 = 31
 | R1b-team2 = Cooper
 | R1b-score2 = 170
  
 | R1c-seed1 = 16
 | R1c-team1 = Liberty
 | R1c-score1 = '''380'''
 | R1c-seed2 = 7
 | R1c-team2 = Longfellow
 | R1c-score2 = 305
  
 | R2a-seed1 = 3
 | R2a-team1 = Churchill
 | R2a-score1 = 225
 | R2a-seed2 = 1
 | R2a-team2 = Hunter
 | R2a-score2 = '''415'''
  
 | R2b-seed1 = 2
 | R2b-team1 = Hopkins
 | R2b-score1 = '''320'''
 | R2b-seed2 = 16
 | R2b-team2 = Liberty
 | R2b-score2 = 245

 | R3-seed1 = 1
 | R3-team1 = Hunter
 | R3-score1 = '''435'''
 | R3-seed2 = 2
 | R3-team2 = Hopkins
 | R3-score2 = 130
  
 | R4-seed1 = 3
 | R4-team1 = Churchill
 | R4-score1 = 250
 | R4-seed2 = 1
 | R4-team2 = Hunter
 | R4-score2 = '''280'''
  
}}

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