2016-17 Preseason Rankings
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Debaters! The season is soon to come underway and we are as excited as you are. Below are the preseason rankings for the season. Expanded methodology coming soon.
| 1 | Jack Wareham (Oakwood) | 77.98586572 |
| 2 | Grant Brown (Millard North) | 69.82332155 |
| 3 | Trent Gilbert (Valley) | 66.1130742 |
| 4 | Jonas Le Barillec (Peninsula) | 55.80404348 |
| 5 | Oliver Sussman (Cambridge) | 53.54063604 |
| 6 | Raffi Piliero (Harrison) | 51.16961131 |
| 7 | Noah Simon (Crossroads) | 48.79858657 |
| 8 | Lavanya Singh (Mission San Jose) | 44.55830389 |
| 9 | Nina Potischman (Hunter College) | 38.18021201 |
| 10 | Alex Zhao (La Canada) | 33.28778459 |
| 11 | Srivatsav Pyda (Harker) | 27.89260634 |
| 12 | Zack Gelles (Scarsdale) | 25.12367491 |
| 13 | Connor Engel (Harvard-Westlake) | 22.46544706 |
| 14 | Ariel Azbel (Lake Highland) | 21.24028268 |
| 15 | TJ Foley (Valley) | 19.61130742 |
| 16 | David Min (American Heritage Plantation) | 18.13427562 |
| 17 | Gillian Zipursky (Scarsdale) | 17.65017668 |
| 18 | Ashish Wadhwani (Dulles) | 14.69964664 |
| 19 | Zoe Ewing (Scarsdale) | 14.62190813 |
| 20 | Indu Pandey (Harvard-Westlake) | 14.50431632 |
| 21 | Shankar Krishnan (Ridge) | 14.06713781 |
| 22 | Morgan Grosch (Cedar Park) | 13.51590106 |
| 23 | Whitley Perryman (Montgomery) | 13.18374558 |
| 24 | Karen Xia (Mountain View) | 13.13995617 |
| 25 | Kaushal Balagurusamy (Lexington) | 12.71024735 |
| 26 | Nisarg Shah (Lynbrook) | 12.35138883 |
| 27 | Muhammad Khattak (Lake Highland) | 12.22614841 |
| 28 | Jason Yang (Kinkaid) | 12.09379613 |
| 29 | Jerry Wang (Peninsula) | 12.01413427 |
| 30 | Ryan Younger (Brentwood) | 11.76834996 |
| 31 | Derek Zhang (Mountain View) | 11.28170148 |
| 32 | Richard Cook (Strake Jesuit) | 9.77385159 |
| 33 | Zoe Posner (Bronx Science) | 9.667844523 |
| 34 | Varun Venkatesh (Lynbrook) | 9.56729436 |
| 35 | Ishan Gaur (Peninsula) | 9.434628975 |
| 36 | Evan Engel (Harvard-Westlake) | 9.054926868 |
| 37 | Parker Whitfill (Phoenix Country Day) | 8.490182046 |
| 38 | Saavan Nanavati (Westwood) | 7.243816254 |
| 39 | Prachit Bhike (Mission San Jose) | 7.199803193 |
| 40 | Harrison Wang (Lynbrook) | 7.147425862 |
| 41 | Priya Kukreja (Millard North) | 6.696113074 |
| 42 | Danielle Dosch (Immaculate Heart) | 6.422418034 |
| 43 | Rithvik Seela (Lake Highland) | 6.272084805 |
| 44 | Conal Thomas-McGinnis (Valley) | 6.173144876 |
| 45 | Sekou Cisse (Success Academy) | 5.90106007 |
| 46 | Evan McKinney (Valley) | 5.282685512 |
| 47 | Madison Lewis (Northland Christian) | 4.726931162 |
| 48 | Aram Moghaddassi (Syosset) | 4.498233215 |
| 49 | Chaitanya Sayani (Dougherty Valley) | 4.461913495 |
| 50 | Kyle Yuan (Collegiate) | 4.424028268 |
| 51 | Jack Briody (Byram Hills) | 4.314487632 |
| 52 | Chris Sun (Millburn) | 4.197879859 |
| 53 | Jake Davidson (Harvard-Westlake) | 3.984881692 |
| 54 | Sammi O’Reilly (Harrison) | 3.886925795 |
| 55 | Eric Wallach (Collegiate) | 3.840989399 |
| 56 | Jonah Wu (Syosset) | 3.816254417 |
| 57 | Matt Zinman (Harrison) | 3.74204947 |
| 58 | Kenzo Okasaki (Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s) | 3.471887999 |
| 59 | Nirmal Balachundhar (Lexington) | 3.448763251 |
| 60 | Roshan Sadhwani (Holy Cross) | 3.339222614 |
| 61 | Katherine Fennell (Stuyvesant) | 3.307420495 |
| 62 | Adam Eljamal (Harrison) | 3.272084805 |
| 63 | Xavier Roberts-Gaal (Walt Whitman) | 3.268551237 |
| 64 | Krupali Patel (Lake Highland) | 3.197879858 |
| 65 | Matt Gofman (Hendrick Hudson) | 3.074204947 |
| 66 | William Park (Harvard-Westlake) | 3.065527575 |
| 67 | William Lai (Rosemount) | 2.932862191 |
| 68 | Lucas Clarke (Cypress Woods) | 2.851590106 |
| 69 | Rachel Maciariello (Montgomery) | 2.809187279 |
| 70 | Thomas Leavitt (Kempner) | 2.636042403 |
| 71 | Raymond Xu (Harker) | 2.358813794 |
| 72 | Macalah Thomas (Cedar Park) | 2.318021201 |
| 73 | Jordan Farenhem (Pembroke Pines) | 2.173144876 |
| 74 | Matthew Gross (Harvard-Westlake) | 2.155477032 |
| 75 | Margaret Purcell (Northland Christian) | 1.996466431 |
| 76 | John Boals (Apple Valley) | 1.943462898 |
| 77 | Briana Aaron (Newark Science) | 1.899449837 |
| 78 | Vikram Kalghatgi (Ridge) | 1.886925795 |
| 79 | Douglas Wickham (Loyola) | 1.846446303 |
| 80 | Grace Kim (Marlborough) | 1.766784452 |
| 81 | Chakra Jonnalagadda (Cypress Woods) | 1.731448763 |
| 82 | Vandita Pendse (Mountain View) | 1.696113074 |
| 83 | Varun Paranjpe (Mountain View) | 1.687435702 |
| 84 | Whit Jackson (Brentwood) | 1.669767858 |
| 85 | Javier Navarrete (Columbus) | 1.628975265 |
| 86 | Oliver Zhao (Monta Vista) | 1.537102473 |
| 87 | Adejoke Mason (North Atlanta) | 1.501766784 |
| 88 | Ari Mostow (Oakwood) | 1.40475019 |
| 89 | Melissa Chau (Lake Highland) | 1.342756184 |
| 90 | Sienna Cabbage (Valley) | 1.325088339 |
| 91 | David Asafu-Adjaye (Newark Science) | 1.28975265 |
| 92 | Robert Cerise (New Orleans Jesuit) | 1.236749116 |
| 93 | Alex Bauman (Oakwood) | 1.219081272 |
| 94 | Tess Welch (Cy-Fair) | 1.219081272 |
| 95 | Atul Jalan (Peninsula) | 1.201413427 |
| 96 | Alina Kulman (Hunter College) | 1.190812721 |
| 97 | Sajeev Saluja (Monta Vista) | 1.166077738 |
| 98 | Lily Goldsmith (Marlborough) | 1.166077738 |
| 99 | Vishan Chaudhary (Harvard-Westlake) | 1.077738516 |
| 100 | Jesse Nadel (Harvard-Westlake) | 1.060070671 |
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