Debate Land Public Forum & Lincoln Douglas Rankings

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Debate Land is proud to offer comprehensive national circuit rankings for Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas debate. We believe that by providing comprehensive and transparent rankings, we can foster a more inclusive, legitimate, and competitive debate community. Debate Land uses a proprietary metric of ranking debaters colloquially known as the OTR Score. It awards points based on scaled tournament attendance, high performance (deep elimination round runs), and success against difficult opponents. Every system has flaws, but the OTR 3.0 Score is an open-source metric widely available to debaters.

Last Updated:

November 27, 2024


1) The first 500 teams are displayed. For full results, see Debate Land.
2) Read our methodology.
3) View results from past years.

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NSD Alumni represent 44 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debater

OTR

401

Le Wang

0.118

402

Aanya Ramaswamy

0.117

403

Heather Yang

0.116

404

Bowie Lee

0.116

405

Mairead Farace

0.115

406

Aditya Maram

0.115

407

Christopher Shin

0.115

408

Justin Zou

0.115

409

Pritam Misri

0.114

410

Prisha Kaushik

0.114

411

Russell Huber

0.111

412

Anik Chobe

0.111

413

Janani Janakiraman

0.110

414

Connor Kinahan

0.106

415

Pratosh Raman

0.106

416

Faisal Hamzeh

0.105

417

Evelyn Shao

0.104

418

Kayla Owusu

0.103

419

Claire Sun

0.103

420

Tiffany Chou

0.103

421

Lavi Avigad

0.102

422

Sarah Kim

0.101

423

James Kennon

0.101

424

Jacob Quililan

0.101

425

Neel Mavalli

0.097

426

Ruby Albert

0.097

427

Chance Hudson

0.097

428

Aditya Sheelavant

0.095

429

Craig O'Sullivan

0.095

430

Joseph Hayes

0.095

431

Emily Ramirez

0.094

432

Sarah Meisel

0.094

433

Chidvilas Gurram

0.094

434

Angelina Isaac

0.091

435

Leo Cruz

0.091

436

Meghan McAvoy

0.090

437

Emily Mei

0.089

438

Tiffany Au

0.089

439

Inaya Rahim

0.089

440

Cyris Lim

0.087

442

Mallory Logsdon

0.085

443

Andrew Kommu

0.085

444

Ayat Jaffar

0.084

445

Viraja Shivhare

0.083

446

Alina Diaz

0.082

447

Jessica Fan

0.081

448

Kenneth Lu

0.081

449

Chloe Tjo

0.078

450

Kyle Oh

0.077

451

Christianna Thomas

0.076

452

Gabrielle Torrence

0.076

453

Joel Cardenas

0.075

454

Kaylee Kim

0.074

455

Aarushi Agarwal

0.074

456

Samuel Wawi

0.073

457

Ishaan Dhillon-Patel

0.072

458

Daniel Cherniak

0.072

459

June Peers

0.071

460

Luis Artiz

0.070

461

Eytan Ek

0.070

462

Jaden Williams

0.069

463

Andrew Wu

0.069

464

Shirin Sadoughi

0.068

465

Judi Abdelrazik

0.067

466

Emanuel Vargas

0.066

467

Lucy Shi

0.065

468

Arnav Arjula

0.064

469

Angela Lu

0.064

470

Molly Wladis

0.063

471

Kaitlyn Tapia

0.061

472

Joanna Chen

0.061

473

Elena Zhang

0.061

474

Shanaya Jana

0.060

475

Brenda Maciel

0.060

476

Zoey Rui

0.060

477

Wendy Sun

0.059

478

Chris Correia

0.059

479

Allison Lee

0.059

480

Cassie Schebel

0.058

481

Pratyush Arunprasad

0.058

483

Brendan Liu

0.058

484

Harshini Sanjay

0.057

485

Avigail Wus

0.057

486

Caroline Hodges

0.057

487

Preston Mallett

0.056

488

Eric Wang

0.056

489

Ian Gao

0.055

490

Robert Joo

0.055

491

Jack Musitano

0.054

492

Armita Arani

0.054

493

Michelle Lee

0.054

494

Beverly Kang

0.053

495

Meghana Mali

0.052

496

Rohan Rao

0.052

497

Grant Young

0.051

498

Joseph Blaine

0.051

499

Lilah Hopper-Hedges

0.050

500

Mila Matteson

0.050

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NSD Alumni represent 50 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

401

Alan Qi & Advik Bajpai

0.241

402

Reese Glasser & Jessie Gross

0.239

403

Riddhish Saravanan & Alex Liao

0.238

404

Amin Graia & Justin Sun

0.237

405

Samuel Stein & Matthew Su

0.237

406

Vivek Athipatla & Dhruv Kilaru

0.236

407

Kaitlyn Qin & Nikhil Peddibhotla

0.236

408

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.236

409

Fiona Qi & Aidan Krishnaney

0.236

410

Rohin Saharoy & Juno Hong

0.235

411

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

0.235

412

Jeremy Yang & Arjun Nair

0.234

413

Wayne Lu & Chaith Mittal

0.231

414

Charlie Price & Will McNairy

0.230

415

Ivy Zhang & Daniella Gan

0.229

416

Raghav Shrivastava & Anish Bhethanabotla

0.229

417

Richy Zheng & Alexander Chen

0.229

418

Austin Liu & Agasthya Jain

0.229

419

Flora Zhou & Ashwika Ganti

0.227

420

Uzair Jinnah & Matthew Rovere

0.227

421

Rishi Pandhi & Surag Swamisai

0.225

422

Varun Swarup & Ian Olenich

0.224

423

Phoebe Lee & Nathan Cho

0.222

424

Diksha Jaikumar & Charvi Patel

0.221

425

Sarah Tran & Xinyi Li

0.221

426

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

0.220

427

Aditya Venkatachalam & Ishan Saha

0.220

428

Aditya Nair & Sahil Kancherla

0.219

429

Jonathan Wu & Andrey Vasilyev

0.217

430

Ilina Jetley & Kassidy Khuu

0.217

431

Aayaan Sahu & Aarya Srinivasan

0.217

432

Ivy Zhang & Nicole Wang

0.216

433

Krishiv Manyam & Tiffany Liu

0.216

434

Shaan Magon & Miles Walker

0.214

435

Jayden Padwalkar & William Yoon

0.214

436

Jiayue Zou & Noelle Kim

0.213

437

Kedaar Garg & Tommy Hughes

0.213

438

Sahand Maleki & Phineas Quigley

0.213

439

Nyle Rizvi & Tejas Khurana

0.212

440

Ashton Paul & Amanda DeStefano

0.212

441

Grace Wang & Simran Vohra

0.212

442

Shaylan Patel & Jack Meyers

0.212

443

Herawie Kebede & Abby Tranter

0.209

444

Jennifer Liu & Sophie Yeh

0.209

445

Aadit Sharma & Ayan Nagulapally

0.209

446

Mohak Dhruv & Arjun Kurup

0.209

447

Rachna Chinya & Maira Jaswal

0.208

448

Helena Martinez & Vinay Sant

0.207

449

Tanvi Jain & Ameerah Suleman

0.206

450

Samanvita Kasibhatla & Anika Sud

0.205

451

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

0.205

452

Fiona Wu & Kate Song

0.204

453

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

0.203

454

Mark Dutta & Andre Dutta

0.203

455

Shreya Krishnakumar & Surya Nookala

0.202

456

Adonay Tewelde & Nathan Lee

0.202

457

Shiva Minter & Sophie Dildy

0.201

458

Jay Ali & Max Unglaub

0.199

459

Lucy Bugni & Daniel Martin

0.199

460

Kaidi Liu & Grace Xie

0.196

461

Yonathan Bar & Sunay Chawla

0.196

462

Damon Muller & Seth Small

0.195

463

Wiley Wang & Joselyn Coon

0.195

464

Kane Perry & Balint Weiszbart

0.195

465

Adam Tsui & Ian Schulz

0.193

466

Abbott Carothers & Aarush Tutiki

0.191

467

Lucy Bugni & Olivia Morsbach

0.190

468

Sebastian Engle & Isabelle Chiang

0.189

469

Mahika Goswami & Arjun Mamidi

0.188

470

Derek Tang & Annissa Li

0.187

471

Jaival Patel & Eshaan Chachad

0.187

472

Samantha Gerber & Dash Gilrain-Lennon

0.187

473

Owen Falk & Aari Sabnani

0.186

474

Kethan Neginhal & Varshith Kamisetty

0.186

475

Kush Vijapure & Fahim Jahingir

0.186

476

Pranav Pradeep & Roy Kapoor

0.185

477

Shaan Magon & Oliver Karam

0.184

478

Aarav Jamdar & James Yu

0.183

479

Judy Yen & Phoebe Hsu

0.183

480

Henry Pistilli & Kamran Shehabi

0.182

481

Ryan Wu & Heather Tsung

0.182

482

Bomi Woo & McKenna Levy

0.181

483

Terry Park & Lawrence Kuo

0.180

484

Marco Gonzalez & Akshaj Sama

0.179

485

Alice You & Genevieve DiPiero

0.177

486

Ray Sun & Ray Tan

0.176

487

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

0.176

488

Ayesha Patel & Ela Kini

0.176

489

Sophia Parang & Xinran Liu

0.176

490

Justinas Petkauskas & Arianna PeA+-a

0.175

491

Yaz Hathiram & Aarav Narang

0.175

492

Vinay Sant & Dhanush Tella

0.175

493

Jackie Zhao & Nate Lavichant

0.167

494

Colin Foster & Greg Guron

0.165

495

Jason Chae & Connor Leo

0.164

496

Suvas Sureneni & Mayank Dhote

0.162

497

Arav Mehta & Anysa Bickici

0.161

498

Garrison Mehlin & Trey Fenton

0.161

499

Neel Aparanji & Nicholas Childs

0.159

500

Hrishi Patel & Marko Gvozdenovic

0.158