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

101

Neelay Shah & Shaan Mehta

1.071

102

Ramsey Warner & Ariyanna Ghala

1.055

103

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

1.054

104

Abhiram Iyer & Pravith Munipalle

1.047

105

Alan Tai & Saanvi Goyal

1.044

106

Roha Rupareliya & Justin Wang

1.011

107

Zain Kapoor & Advik Chandok

1.009

108

Thelonious Kurland & Leo Hao

1.004

109

Claire Sim & Brian Liu

0.998

110

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

0.997

111

Ashton Paul & Gustavo Membreno

0.997

112

Martin Huang & Jack Zhang

0.993

113

Shreya Pawar & Jessica Kim

0.993

114

Sean Lu & Leon Yang

0.992

115

Grace Li & Katherine Xue

0.985

116

Ishaan Ahsan & Austin She

0.979

117

Nathan Lee & Alyssa Chen

0.969

118

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

0.969

119

Allen Liu & Gaurav Rao

0.961

120

Luke Zhong & Andrew Li

0.954

121

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.934

122

Ethan Mao & Paul Wang

0.933

123

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

0.931

124

Ingrid Alg & Sree Baruri

0.928

125

Ezra McCullers & Jared Bart

0.928

126

Peter Hablinski & Winston Wu

0.925

127

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

0.921

128

Christopher Lin & Yhali Matot

0.904

129

Ashish Goswami & Leonardo Jia

0.897

130

Shruthi Nagulapalli & Ariana Corbu

0.896

131

Anna Jhon & Charles Lu

0.892

132

Shoumili Tarafder & Clara Stamm

0.884

133

Gurneel Batra & Shaurya Paul

0.880

134

Akshaj Bozza & Shaunik Musukula

0.872

135

Naina Chopra & Andy Mei

0.865

136

Jasmine Merrikh & Meredith Yount

0.864

137

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

0.864

138

Ben Rask & Soumil Bhandari

0.856

139

Aaron Eagan & Jason Cohen

0.854

140

David Lu & Feliks Lin

0.852

141

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

0.850

142

Rose Semmel & Una Cutrone

0.848

143

Sameet Das & Atharv Mahajan

0.848

144

Selma Bahrani & Daniel Wu

0.840

145

Arnav Maheshwari & Varun Shenoy

0.832

146

Anishka Kallepalli & Anoushka Rajeshkumar

0.830

147

Brad Cao & Faith Zhao

0.825

148

Kira Bhatia & Lexie Malik

0.823

149

Jet Tsang & Anthony Luo

0.822

150

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

0.815

151

Alex Lee & Alexander Jen

0.813

152

Alex Cai & Ryder Tang

0.810

153

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

0.810

154

Arjun Myneni & Navadeep Budda

0.807

155

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.806

156

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

0.797

157

Linda Zhang & Joyce Liu

0.793

158

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

0.792

159

John Joyce & Ben Miyares

0.789

160

Ronav Ganesh & Arnav Agarwal

0.779

161

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.774

162

Anshika Agrawal & Siri Ramineni

0.772

163

Avital Dumontet & Alexandra Kosloff

0.762

164

Sebastian Engle & Nathaniel Dsilva

0.757

165

Varun Bazaz & Miles Gu

0.746

166

Kisa Kazmi & Akshitha Varre

0.744

167

Derek Song & Ali Fehmi

0.743

168

Tina Li & Matthew Liu

0.742

169

Ryan Grondin & Peter Grande

0.741

170

Alexei Varah & Ruiyu Tang

0.738

171

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

0.736

172

Lewis Le & Jarod Jiang

0.733

173

Alexia Lara & Sofia Teifeld

0.730

174

Raj Trivedi & Ian Ngo

0.728

175

Charlie Yang & Wenzhuo Zhang

0.719

176

Vihaan Patel & Aadi Loonawat

0.717

177

Grace Fu & Helen Han

0.715

178

Jaeyoon Lee & Xuanyu Dong

0.709

179

Ethan Zhao & Mac Stratton

0.708

180

Rina Li & Sherry Huang

0.706

181

Nare Sheroyan & Emily Chamichyan

0.702

182

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

0.700

183

Arthur Monastyrsky & Shane Dell

0.698

184

Jayden Liu & Aditya Mukker

0.693

185

Ansh Singhal & Niranjan Ashok

0.686

186

Claire Watz & Sadie Slobin

0.684

187

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

0.683

188

Nymisha Goli & Mekala Sundaram

0.682

189

Ananya Appalakutty & Kristine Yu

0.680

190

Aaditya Manami-Ratan & Samanyu Gowda

0.677

191

Calder Weiss & Dexter Theisen

0.672

192

Lauren Jain & Ethan Huang

0.671

193

Coco Campbell & Fred Bao

0.666

194

Ellis Brown & Sofia Telio

0.666

195

Mia Dalzell & Netta Miller

0.662

196

Oliver Chen & Evan Zhang

0.658

197

Sarina Shah & James Kapadia

0.657

198

Lionel Augustine & Leonardo Damato

0.654

199

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

0.653

200

Aarav Jamdar & Dominic Wang

0.653