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

101

Ryan Chang

0.852

102

Alexander Jayaratne

0.829

103

Lucia Sanchez Gagerman

0.810

104

Jamie Hao

0.809

105

Cameron Simmons

0.804

106

Cathryn Wu

0.803

107

Andy Hou

0.799

108

Jessica Katz

0.793

109

Tara Prem

0.789

110

Ajay Krishnan

0.788

111

Ayaan Singh

0.785

112

Brendan Finnegan

0.785

113

Brian Son

0.784

114

Lydia Aklilu

0.775

115

Sebastian Valladolid

0.766

116

William Li

0.742

117

Aayush Gandhi

0.720

118

Ayan Mahajan

0.714

119

Kevin Han

0.707

120

Daniel Baek

0.699

121

Jackson White

0.693

122

Dalton Ngo

0.657

123

Rory Baskin

0.653

124

Harly Liu

0.638

125

Chloe Zhou

0.634

126

Michael Ahn

0.633

127

Rishabh Handa

0.628

128

Chloe Swidler

0.618

129

Christopher Cheng

0.616

130

Jerry Li

0.611

131

Patrick Liu

0.611

132

Hannah Ying

0.599

133

Anshul Sharma

0.595

134

Julia Thomas

0.594

135

Allison Liu

0.590

136

Dylan Millimet

0.586

137

Mina Hu

0.586

138

Theo Khakoo

0.584

139

Vihaan Patel

0.582

140

Kensho Nishio

0.581

141

Sophia Moreno

0.576

142

Aarav Mahendru

0.574

143

Kale Hildebrandt

0.574

144

Leah Fischer

0.573

145

Miles Kshatriya

0.569

146

Kristina Wisniewski

0.567

147

Serena Blutter

0.565

148

Amy Jia

0.556

149

Meera Shah

0.552

150

Kyson Bloomingdale

0.551

151

Noah Reardon

0.551

152

Mia Fleming

0.543

153

Anya Lee

0.536

154

Adrienne Wang

0.535

155

Yiyi Sun

0.529

156

Conan Matos

0.528

157

Rani Green

0.527

158

Michael Reola

0.515

159

Andrew Li

0.515

160

Cooper Brody

0.511

161

Jackson Dirks

0.508

162

Toby Hou

0.497

163

Andrew Xu

0.494

164

Priya Aggarwal

0.486

165

Asher Meron

0.479

166

Naveen Somani

0.475

167

Leyi Han

0.466

168

Valerie Li

0.466

169

Nicolette Huff

0.463

170

Gabriela Adler

0.462

171

Luke Schooler

0.455

172

Lucas Chritah

0.453

173

Daniel Zheng

0.440

174

Sahaj Chahal

0.436

175

Laura Huang

0.433

176

Shona Kumar

0.428

177

Luke Rascoff

0.427

178

Meddy Ma

0.424

179

Briana Song

0.416

180

Matthew Wang

0.414

181

Elle Dershewitz

0.414

182

Aaron Choi

0.410

183

David Xu

0.409

184

Vincent Wang

0.405

185

David Adelowo

0.404

186

Kaneeka Chakraborty

0.402

187

Joseph Sun

0.399

188

Penny Stoller

0.391

189

Sami Shapiro

0.389

190

James Young

0.388

191

Teighlor Bloyd

0.387

192

Evan Chen

0.381

193

Navid Sheybani

0.381

194

Neel Shrivastava

0.381

195

Devan Patel

0.378

196

Denis Biju

0.377

197

Upton Ta-Beadle

0.376

198

Grady Morris

0.373

199

Gabriel Whangbo-Olvera

0.373

200

Christopher Bezemek

0.372

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Romir Patel & Ezekiel Ehrenberg

3.446

2

Faizaan Ahmad & Bashir Eltyeb

2.885

3

Eshan Ahmad & Rajan Sambandam

2.881

4

Kayte Chan & Anika Gupta

2.847

5

Pranav Ravulapati & Raya Jung

2.602

6

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.585

7

Brett MacKay & Cameron Ingram

2.564

8

Avni Iyer & Bhavya Kumar

2.551

9

Christopher Tang & Cooper Li

2.476

10

Devin Lester & Yezul Maharjan

2.335

11

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

2.326

12

Bryan Zhao & Alexander Zhang

2.257

13

Vedatman Duhoon & Vaibhav Wudaru

2.233

14

Melinda Synn & Justin Wang

2.202

15

Kaylee Chen & Ruhi Kurdikar

2.186

16

Aumrita Savdharia & Stavan Shah

2.181

17

Arvind Krishnan & Ethan Tauro

2.174

18

Zellie Olson & Eva Redmond

2.165

19

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

2.122

20

Ryan Chen & Nicky Wang

2.115

21

Rehan Merchant & Campbell Haire

2.079

22

Tristan Mankovsky & Sasha Leifer

2.071

23

Connor Chun & Vishwa Rakasi

2.066

24

Natalie Berman & Nicholas Willett

2.050

25

Anushree Samsi & Armaan Sharma

2.022

26

Owen Erdman & Samuel Weisz

1.985

27

Amber Wong & Yashvi Jaladi

1.964

28

Jeffrey Guan & Zhengyao Liew

1.963

29

Maeve Welch & Salman Memon

1.940

30

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

1.929

31

Tesu Ham & Farhan Khan

1.921

32

Jason Zhao & Mac Stratton

1.861

33

Adelaide Chow & Grace Wieland

1.849

34

Feifan Liu & Mingyi Chen

1.837

35

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

1.832

36

Rejul Guru & Sudeep Vattikuti

1.817

37

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.776

38

Anuraa Venkat & Aanya Mohta

1.765

39

Dev Sharma & Ayan Bakshi

1.732

40

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

1.717

41

Aaron Tian & Isabel Tang

1.716

42

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

1.674

43

Rohin Prashanth & Amogh Janganure

1.671

44

Jackson Hayward & Oliver Alferness

1.663

45

Leon Le & Alice Luo

1.632

46

Ignacio Chazarreta & Joseph Alonso

1.607

47

Sarayu Pasumarthi & Adya Balakrishnan

1.592

48

Alex Fagell & Hani Garside

1.591

49

Anuj Lohtia & Arrman Kapoor

1.580

50

Andres Mendoza Casas & Luis Carvajal Picott

1.554

51

Vihaan Jain & Kevin Ren

1.529

52

Aarav Motivala & Sahaj Bhandari

1.517

53

Ben Yoo & Chase Waldheim

1.495

54

Audrey Browning & Luke Zimmer

1.474

55

Zayn Charania & Aaron Pinto

1.468

56

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.464

57

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

1.461

58

Nikhil Daniel & Amanda DeStefano

1.449

59

Roger Li & Julian Carlile

1.444

60

Cady Wu & Natalie Zhang

1.437

61

Jason Zhao & Daniel Guo

1.431

62

Leon Wang & Sherry Lin

1.423

63

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

1.418

64

James Yu & Junseo Lee

1.391

65

Sophia Xiong & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.372

66

Tony Liu & Hamza Banatwala

1.360

67

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

1.340

68

Ray Sun & Austin She

1.335

69

Grant Morishita & Teddy Choe

1.316

70

Louis Reich & Eden Hoover

1.315

71

Vincent Zhu & Ted Dudley

1.310

72

Esha Bindlish & Arianna Desai

1.304

73

Ryan Kang & Tobin Wilson

1.274

74

Ray Eggerts & Ana Sorrentino

1.274

75

Parsa Hassanpour & Jessica Liao

1.269

76

Eli Chen & Rahul Rani

1.261

77

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

1.236

78

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

1.231

79

Isabel Chang & Kingston Harrison

1.231

80

Racheal Wang & Allyson Lingo

1.202

81

Ryan Tung & Edison Zheng

1.202

82

Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

1.196

83

Cruz Castillo & Ethan Wan

1.177

84

Aarushi Thatola & Anya Kaushik

1.172

85

Evan McElfresh & William Filocamo

1.172

86

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

1.165

87

Arthur Hu & Aiden Swartz

1.164

88

Tharoon Eswar & Rayaan Meghani

1.162

89

Anvay Sur & Suraj Nistala

1.159

90

Keerat Virdi & Angad Virdi

1.159

91

Finney Haire & Luke Holmes

1.156

92

Anna Zhang & Chenjia Ni

1.144

93

Sumith Murthy & Nathan Hadi

1.143

94

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

1.132

95

Joya Tendulkar & Iris Pang

1.120

96

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

1.117

97

Eddie El-Fadil & Yasha Durnev

1.110

98

Ashwin Raghav & Abhigyan Mishra

1.107

99

Rachel Sinaiko & Sofia Millerman

1.104

100

Joseph Johnson & Wali Sidiqyar

1.071