2024-2025 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFICATION BID LEADERBOARD

Welcome to the 2024-2025 Leaderboard, where we proudly spotlight the Top 6 Most Devoted Performers. Through relentless effort and consistent victories, these outstanding debaters have claimed their spots at the top—winning awards in the most competitions out of over 1,000 competitors. Their dedication and skill set a gold standard in the world of competitive forensics.

Congratulations to all bid winners for their outstanding performance in the 2024–2025 National Olympiad Open Tournaments!

2024-25 BID LEADERBOARD

Public Forum - HS

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Paul Wang 4.4 Winston Churchill High School
1 Ethan Mao 4.4 Winston Churchill High School
2 Nicole Li 4.2 Acclive Academy
3 Ellen Zhang 4.15 Acclive Academy
4 Cindy Lin 3.3 Acclive Academy
5 Jerry Gan 3.25 Acclive Academy
6 Raina Wu 2 Acclive Academy
7 Adit Agarwal 1.65 The Golden State Academy
8 Yi Jei Zhan 1.5 Acclive Academy
8 Tuesday Taylor 1.5 Myers Park High School
8 Will McNairy
 1.5 Myers Park High School
8 Swapneil Bose 1.5 Potomac Debate Academy
8 Niel Peddibhotla
 1.5 Potomac Debate Academy
9 Ella Chen 1.35 Acclive Academy
10 Lucy Frost 1 Myers Park High School
10 Raines Stewart 1 Myers Park High School
10 Grace Li 1 Richard Montgomery High School
10 Katherine Xue 1 Richard Montgomery High School
10 Ethan Golez
 1 Vista Del Lago High School
10 Haran Swaminathan
 1 Vista Del Lago High School
11 Bennett Huang 0.9 Acclive Academy
12 Angela Wang 0.85 Potomac Debate Academy
12 Yusuf Gabr 0.85 Potomac Debate Academy
13 Richard Ma 0.75 Potomac Debate Academy
13 Jayden Yaejoon Jung 0.75 (Canada) BC Academy
13 Megan Webster 0.75 (Canada) BC Academy
14 Yujie Jin 0.7 Acclive Academy
15 Evan Shin
 0.65
 Granada Hills Charter School
15 Ryan Shin 0.65
 Granada Hills Charter School
15 Abhay Menil 0.65 The Golden State Academy
16 Jayden Yoon 0.6 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Miranda He 0.5 Acclive Academy
17 Pranav Kaushik 0.5 Brooks Debate Institute
17 Aryan Bachu 0.5 Brooks Debate Institute
17 Udayan Singhal 0.5 Brooks Debate Institute
17 Ansh Gupta 0.5 Brooks Debate Institute
17 Linlang Zhao 0.5 Keyspeak
17 Jason Hu 0.5 Keyspeak
17 Cameron Williams 0.5 Myers Park High School
17 Charlie Price 0.5 Myers Park High School
17 Alex Yang 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Ava Datta 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Rishik Shenolikar 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Tanisi Sahai 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Karthik Uppalapati
 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Gabriel Salganick 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Sarina Virmani 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Arjun Virmani 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Polina Kogan 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
17 Eshika Paruchuri 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
18 Annissa Li 0.4 Foothill High School
18 Ariana Arturo
 0.4 Potomac Debate Academy
18 Hannah Li 0.4 The Golden State Academy
18 Kelly Liu 0.4 The Golden State Academy
19 Austin Chan 0.35 Alameda Independent
19 Grace Tan 0.35 Alameda Independent
19 Allison Lee 0.35 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Andrew Dai 0.35 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Claire Lee 0.35 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Kaitlyn Zhang 0.35 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Ellen Kim 0.35 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Richard Park 0.35 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Joshua Jathanna
 0.35 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Pia Apurva 0.35
 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Sahasra Vedagiri 0.35
 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Lotus Gao
0.35 Solebury High School
19 Simeon Maman
 0.35 Solebury High School
19 James Hwang 0.35 Swang Independent
19 Ronit Singh 0.35 Swang Independent
19 Chris Wang 0.35 The Golden State Academy
19 Sarah Chen 0.35 The Golden State Academy
19 Vivaan Parhar 0.35 The Golden State Academy
19 Yujin Kim 0.35 The Golden State Academy
20 Benjamin He 0.3 Acclive Academy
20 Aaron Jiang 0.3 Acclive Academy
20 Mahitha Koppella 0.3 Potomac Debate Academy
20 Zaliah Kumaran 0.3 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Michael Macri 0.25 Acclive Academy
21 Aarav Vashisht 0.25 Brooks Debate Institute
21 Ahaan Sood 0.25 Brooks Debate Institute
21 Mozhu Bai
 0.25 Keyspeak
21 Yuchen Wu
 0.25 Keyspeak
21 Henry Pistilli 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Kamran Shehabi 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Pagie Lawlor 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Pia Pandey 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Richard Fink 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Rudri Soni 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Siddhant Pandit 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Daniel Gibson 0.25 Summit Christian High School
21 Nate Pettus 0.25 Summit Christian High School
21 Aakarsh Talati 0.25 The Golden State Academy
21 Rishab Pandhe 0.25 The Golden State Academy
22 Anson He 0.2 (Japan) Acclive Academy
22 Mark Li
 0.2 (Japan) Acclive Academy
23 Angela Qi
 0.15 Acclive Academy
23 William Wang
 0.15 Acclive Academy
23 Ananya Akkaraju
 0.15 Dublin High School
23 Sana Presswala
 0.15 Dublin High School
23 Yunyao Zhu
 0.15 Foothill High School
23 Ansh Khurana
 0.15 Montgomery Township High School
23 Arnav Nagireddy
 0.15 Montgomery Township High School
23 Veronica Wu
 0.15 Northville High School
23 Yoanna Odunlami 0.15 Northville High School
23 Advaitaa Sahu 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Ishika Chelpati 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Kayla Hill 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Marlowe Johnsen 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Mudit Budhdev 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Preeti Gadiraju 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Sanskriti Naik 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Sarvesh Sabarinath 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Srinish Prabhu 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Vedant Pandit 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Vikram Sethuraman 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Gaurang Jinka 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
23 Ashton Brooks 0.15 Taft High School
23 Varsha Murali 0.15 Taft High School
23 Albert Lu 0.15 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
23 Wang Harry 0.15 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
24 Annie Wang 0.1 Acclive Academy
24 Athena Sun 0.1 Acclive Academy
24 Sally Yu 0.1 Acclive Academy

Public Forum - MS

Rank Name  Bids School/Institution
1 Yuzhou Zheng 2.85 Acclive Academy
2 Brandon Fu 2.55 Acclive Academy
3 Nandini Bhatt
 2.3 Potomac Debate Academy
4 Iris Ai
 2 Potomac Debate Academy
5 Adrian Cheng 1.55 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
5 Hunter Chung 1.55 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
6 Dhairya Gurnani 1.5 Brooks Debate Institute
7 Peishi Yu 1.25 Potomac Debate Academy
8 Christina Liang 1.2 Acclive Academy
9 Aarna Parikh 1 Brooks Debate Institute
9 Jeffrey Joseph 1 Brooks Debate Institute
9 Tanush Chokshi 1 Brooks Debate Institute
9 Anay Sahu 1 Potomac Debate Academy
9 Daven Kella 1 Potomac Debate Academy
9 Adhiyan Karthikeyan 1 Potomac Debate Academy
9 Ramana Duvuru 1 Potomac Debate Academy
9 Zeqi An 1 The Golden State Academy
9 Austin Liu 1 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
9 Kaitlyn Zhang 1 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
10 Passion Yu 0.9 Acclive Academy
11 Jacob Yu 0.75 Acclive Academy
11 Aniruddh Dayananda
 0.75
 Potomac Debate Academy
11 Molly Na 0.75 Potomac Debate Academy
11 August Shen 0.75 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
11 Isabella Liu 0.75 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
12 Kshetra Vedagiri 0.65 Potomac Debate Academy
12 Grace Yun 0.65 (China) HMDC Forensics
12 Vivian Guo 0.65 (China) HMDC Forensics
13 Vivian Xu 0.6 (Canada) AA Canada
14 Weini Xing 0.5 Acclive Academy
14 Enya Yu 0.5 Acclive Academy
14 Ashritaa Palavalli 0.5 Brooks Debate Institute
14 Jason Wang 0.5 Brooks Debate Institute
14 Kyle So 0.5 Brooks Debate Institute
14 Elaina Wang 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Rishaan Kumar 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Rishi Golla 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Varsha Bojja 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Stevenson Tang
 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Tatum Gammon
 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Riaan Gupta
 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Ryan Liu
 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Zoe Lindhaus
 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Baron Liu
 0.5 Potomac Debate Academy
14 Calvin Jiang 0.5 Raven Independent
14 Jacob Yang 0.5 Raven Independent
14 Siddharth Lagisetty 0.5 The Golden State Academy
14 Tanish Thunuguntla 0.5 The Golden State Academy
14 Matthew Chan 0.5 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
14 Isabella Chen 0.5 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
14 Ethan Wang 0.5 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
14 Michael Shen 0.5 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
15 Dylan Li 0.45 Acclive Academy
15 Jasmine Lung 0.45 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
16 Regina Qu 0.4 Acclive Academy
16 Olivia Wang 0.4 Potomac Debate Academy
16 Janice Huang 0.4 Team Platinum
16 Claire Sun 0.4 The Golden State Academy
16 Trisha Gupta 0.4 The Golden State Academy
16 Vikram Kolli 0.4 (South Korea) AA South Korea
17 Ivy Zhang 0.35 Acclive Academy
17 Nina He 0.35 Acclive Academy
17 Olivia Ho 0.35 Acclive Academy
17 Annabelle Wang 0.35 Brooks Debate Institute
17 Rebecca Dou 0.35 Brooks Debate Institute
17 Akhil Puvvada 0.35 The Golden State Academy
17 Emy Thoppil 0.35 The Golden State Academy
17 Ryan Peng 0.35 The Golden State Academy
17 Dan Xia 0.35 (Canada) AA Canada
17 Erin Wu 0.35 (China) HMDC Forensics
17 Naomi Chow 0.35 (China) HMDC Forensics
17 Olivia Feng 0.35 (China) HMDC Forensics
17 Charlotte Wang 0.35 (South Korea) AA South Korea
18 Catherine Wang 0.3 Acclive Academy
18 Katelyn Wang 0.3 Acclive Academy
18 Olivia Yang 0.3 LightLearning Academy
18 Zhenyu Zhao 0.3 LightLearning Academy
18 Ayman Islam 0.3 Potomac Debate Academy
18 Danush Vattipulusu 0.3 Potomac Debate Academy
18 Nina Neti 0.3 Potomac Debate Academy
18 Rainger Yu 0.3 Potomac Debate Academy
18 Ailai Yang 0.3 (China) Harbinger Debate
18 Yucen Shen 0.3 (China) Harbinger Debate
18 Aaron Chuang 0.3 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
19 Annie Liao 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Jiya Rajoo 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Maya Dehghan 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Owen Pan 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Zachary Wen 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Rishabh Vyas
 0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Myra Chowdhery
0.25 Potomac Debate Academy
19 Rachel Jiang 0.25 (China) HMDC Forensics
19 Candy Wei 0.25 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
19 Tsung-Da Shen 0.25 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
20 Kate Shippe 0.2 Acclive Academy
20 Melody Ke 0.2 Acclive Academy
20 Regan Gao 0.2 Acclive Academy
20 Austin Jin 0.2 Brooks Debate Institute
20 Mittansh Bhatia 0.2 Brooks Debate Institute
20 Joyce Yan 0.2 Jump Start
20 Adelina Elliott 0.2 Potomac Debate Academy
20 Annie Liao 0.2 Potomac Debate Academy
20 Julia Gu 0.2 Potomac Debate Academy
20 Albert Jiang 0.2 The Golden State Academy
20 Leo Jiao 0.2 The Golden State Academy
20 Michael Wei 0.2 The Golden State Academy
20 Olivia Jiang 0.2 The Golden State Academy
20 Aidan Lee 0.2 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
20 Ian Lee 0.2 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
21 Caroline Bian 0.15 Acclive Academy
21 Ethan Massay 0.15 Acclive Academy
21 Lucas Chang 0.15 Acclive Academy
21 Rebecca Xiong 0.15 Acclive Academy
21 Saloni Bhure 0.15 Acclive Academy
21 Vita Fu 0.15 Acclive Academy
21 Wenqing Jia 0.15 Acclive Academy
21 Yoyo Wang 0.15 Acclive Academy
21 Ansh Gupta 0.15 Brooks Debate Institute
21 Udayan Singhal 0.15 Brooks Debate Institute
21 Audrey Li 0.15 Jump Start
21 Kaylee Shi 0.15 Jump Start
21 Aarav Shah 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Avani Mahadevu 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Kavin Loganathan 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Kavya Singh 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Varnika Ramadoss 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Vihaan Mathur 0.15 Potomac Debate Academy
21 Anthony Zhao 0.15 The Golden State Academy
21 Caroline Feng 0.15 The Golden State Academy
21 Kartikay Shekhar 0.15 The Golden State Academy
21 Prisa Singh 0.15 The Golden State Academy
21 Shrayus Gummidipudi
 0.15 The Golden State Academy
21 Surapujita Seerla 0.15 The Golden State Academy
21 Jayden Xing
 0.15
 Youth Development Resource Center
21 Jingcheng Wang
 0.15
 Youth Development Resource Center
21 Alainna Lu
 0.15
 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
21 Raymond Huang 0.15 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
21 Tony Wang
 0.15
 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
22 Mia Jin
 0.1
 Acclive Academy
22 Arjun Sandhu
 0.1
 Potomac Debate Academy
22 Aishani Damireddy
 0.1
 The Golden State Academy
22 Sejal Agarwal
 0.1
 The Golden State Academy
22 Austin Lu
 0.1
 (China) HMDC Forensics
22 Illy Lan
 0.1
 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy
22 Jasmine Li
 0.1
 (Taiwan) Ascent Academy

Lincoln Douglas

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Jason Kim 2.0 The Golden State Academy
2 Shreeya Ram 1.0 Folsom High School
2 Abhinav Deshpande 1.0 Mission San Jose High School
2 Kiran Gounden-Kobes 1.0 Rye High School
3 Pearl Yu 0.75 California Ridge
3 Bowen Yan 0.75 The Golden State Academy
4 Anumitha Sivakumar 0.55 Brooks Debate Institute
4 Nisha Ghia 0.55 The Golden State Academy
4 Rohan Adusumilli 0.55 The Golden State Academy
5 Abheek Batra 0.5 Brooks Debate Institute
5 Anoushka Srivastava 0.5 The Golden State Academy
5 Kanya Annamalai 0.5 The Golden State Academy
5 Henry Tighe 0.5 Rye High School
5 Bill Chen 0.5 Rye High School
6 Wilbert Zhu 0.35 Project Dialouge
6 Kayvon Behboodian 0.35 The Golden State Academy
6 Prisa Singh 0.35 The Golden State Academy
7 Arjun Raman 0.25 Brooks Debate Institute
7 Eliza Phillip 0.25 Iceberg Speech & Debate
7 Alan Yang 0.25 Irvine University High School
7 Ananya Malineni 0.25 The Golden State Academy
7 Junlan Wang 0.25 The Golden State Academy
8 Jimmy Jing 0.2 LightLearning Academy
8 Chase Evans 0.2 Palm Beach Central High School
8 Cynthia Li 0.2 The Golden State Academy
8 Riyansh Goyal 0.2 The Golden State Academy
9 Mridhulaa Rajagopal 0.15 Avon High School

Policy Debate

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Harper Harris 1.0 Myers Park High School
1 Joseph Holland 1.0 Myers Park High School
2 Sebastian Chan 0.5 (Taiwan) ADL
2 Ian Wang 0.5 (Taiwan) ADL

Parliamentary Debate

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Mannat Kohli 0.3 Saddle River Day School
1 Alison Rosenson 0.3 Saddle River Day School
2
3

Dramatic Interpretation

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Gordon Lu 0.8 La Jolla Country Day School
2
3
4

National Extemp

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Sahil Jain 1.0 Mission San Jose High School
2 Maya Rashid 0.75 Edgemont High School
3
4

Humorous Interpretation

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Alexander Jean-Joseph 0.25 Palm Beach Central High School
2
3
4

Informative Speaking

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Ashritaa Palavalli 1.85 Winston Churchill Middle School
2 Isabelle Tran 0.5 Laguna Beach High School
2 Rohan Adusumilli 0.5 The Golden State Academy
3 Swetha Retineni 0.35 Mission San Jose High School

Original Oratory

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Kaikei Liu 1.0 The Golden State Academy
1 Charlotte Brown 1.0 Rye High School
2 Abhinav Deshpande 0.35 Mission San Jose High School
3 Lakshanya Palani 0.3 Foothill High School
3 Kaixin Zheng 0.3 (United Kingdom) Independent UK

World Schools

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Cecilia Lu 0.3 LightLearning Academy
1 Jacky Zhao 0.3 LightLearning Academy
1 Maggie Li 0.3 LightLearning Academy
1 Sophia Xie 0.3 LightLearning Academy
1 Yi Jiang 0.3 LightLearning Academy

Congressional

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Samhita Koltur 0.3 The Hun School of Princeton
2
3
4

Program of Oral Interpretation

Rank Name  Bids Institution
1 Sangeun Park 0.3 (Vietnam) Saigon South International School
2
3
4