2025 HSNCT

2025 NAQT HSNCT
Edited by	NAQT
Champion	Livingston A
Runner-up	Northview
Third	Wade Hampton
Fourth	Henderson A
High scorer	Padraig Finan, Washington Connections
Site	Atlanta, GA
Field	336
Stats	[1]

The 2025 High School National Championship was won by Livingston A, consisting of Arav Kaushik, Benjamin Laskov, Robert Wang, and Kevin Zhang. The tournament was held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis and Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.

Saturday Morning and early Afternoon rounds across both the Marriott Marquis and Hilton Atlanta experienced disruptions from the music of the 2025 Atlanta Caribbean Carnival parade, which assembled on Peachtree Street nearby. The Marquis Ballroom had to pause gameplay at one point because the tables were shaking from the bass of the music outside. A pet lemur was visible from game rooms. The tournament progressed fine once the parade began moving.

No former HSNCT champion and only one former Top 4 finisher made the Top 4 of this tournament, which thus equaled 2019 in new contenders at the semifinal stage. For the first time ever since the present HSNCT format was introduced, the entire "Super Seven" had no former champions, guaranteeing a first-time winner by the time of the Sunday dinner break.

Tournament results

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Super Semifinal Loser is 3rd place					One-Game Final
	8	Strake Jesuit A	325			5	Livingston A	265
	3	Wade Hampton	335			3	Wade Hampton	375
	10	Northview A	390								3	Wade Hampton	280			5	Livingston A	455
	2	Adlai E. Stevenson A	180								10	Northview A	425			10	Northview A	195
						10	Northview A	460
						21	Henderson A	190
	21	Henderson A	415
	1	Lexington A	230
				Key:         Losing team progressing     Winning team progressing

NOTE: Numbers represent seeds at the start of bracket play.

Individual results

All-Stars

Rank	Player	Team	Rank	Player	Team
1.	Padraig Finan	Washington Connections	21.	Neha Pandya	Saint Francis
2.	Maximilian Lin	Eastchester	22.	Deven Hagen	TJSST A
3.	Daniel Merida	American School of Guatemala	23.	Krish Nathan	Hoover
4.	Vidyut Arvind	HSMSE at CCNY	24.	Demetrios Skordas	Troy (NY)
5.	Benjamin Edmunds	Utica Academy	25.	Evan Gniadek	Quince Orchards
6.	Joshua Koch	Grosse Pointe South	26.	Demetrios Skordas	Troy
7.	Pranavkrishna Bharanidharan	Bella Vista	27.	Ryan Smith	Downingtown STEM
8.	Tate Osborne	Alabama Cyber Tech	28.	Edward Kim	Johns Creek A
9.	Arin Parsa	Stanford Online	29.	Johnny Zheng	Caddo Magnet A
10.	Nathaniel Schmidt	Moravian Academy	30.	Riley Ray	El Reno
11.	Robert Wang	Livingston A	31.	David Noles	duPont Manual
12.	Karthik Jayaram	Walker	32.	Sreekar Vajjha	Classen SAS
13.	Viseth Meng	Cedar Crest	33.	Camden Williams	Mexico
14.	Grady Noble	Boise	34.	Zoe Wang	Early College at Guilford
15.	Vayun Krishna	Bellarmine College Prep	35.	Janani Gollapalli	Lightridge
16.	Ben Hellman	Georgetown Day	36.	Robert Wisdom	Chapel Hill
17.	Christopher Stewart	Yukon	37.	Carson Deprez	Elkhorn
18.	Samuel Kemeny	Evanston	38.	Charles Heydt	Conard
19.	Arjun Vijaykumar	Saratoga B	39.	Thomas Watkins	Aiken
20.	Henry Jiang	Detroit Country Day	40.	Matthew He	Houston Memorial

Rank	Sophomore Rising Stars	Team	Rank	Freshmen Rising Stars	Team
1.	Spencer Manning	Stevenson A	1.	Tomal Khan	Greenhill
2.	Shishir Bharadwaj	Lexington	2.	Sheehan Banka	Northview
3.	Jacob Wu	North San Diego Scholars A	3.	Evan Ting	Park Tudor A
4.	Michael DiGenova	Wilmington Charter	4.	Manu Cherkumille	Mission San Jose
5.	Alejandro Ferina Hernandez	Southside (SC)	5.	Peter Mahowald	Belmont B
6.	Weston Martin	Frazer A	6.	Byron Sood	Cinco Ranch B
7.	Samy El-Zahabi	Chattahoochee C	7.	Madhav Karta	LASA
8.	Nam Dang	Richard Montgomery	8.	Andrew Zhou	Livingston D
9.	Faiaz Abdurrahman	Mason	9.	Colin Williams	Milton (FL)
10.	Sudhanva Belur	Archbishop Mitty A	10.	Ruizhao Sun	Belmont B