Debate Land Public Forum & Lincoln Douglas Rankings

Debate Land Logo

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.

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
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

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
NSD Alumni represent 50 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

201

Colin Xu & Anna Yi

0.651

202

Ankith Gundimeda & Graham Canter

0.649

203

Rishi Ramaswamy & Sahana Rajesh

0.639

204

Shreyas Pokharna & Devam Shah

0.637

205

Rushil Baindla & Felix Xu

0.625

206

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

0.623

207

Yashas Singh & Jiseung Jung

0.622

208

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

0.622

209

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.622

210

Gillian Ho & Michael Ji

0.620

211

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

0.619

212

Willow Tham & Mahati Mudgal

0.616

213

Dhanyashree Ramanathan & Stella Bie

0.612

214

Pranav Pradeep & Prthvi Pradeep

0.611

215

Anya Gopalakrishnan & Ahana Raghavan

0.605

216

Arham Shah & Sophia Patel

0.604

217

Aanya Baddela & Spencer Chaisanguanthum

0.604

218

Daniel Mendelson & Max Salomon

0.601

219

Kevin Cheng & Claire Tsai

0.597

220

Derek Song & Victor Cociorva

0.595

221

Leo Cheng & Joy Xia

0.593

222

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

0.590

223

Dillan Jagannath & Alex Liu

0.589

224

Claire Cao & Oliver Stiele

0.586

225

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

0.586

226

Luke Zhong & Dessie Yang

0.585

227

Allen Hawkins & James Houser

0.584

228

Abigail McDonald & Jamie Berntson

0.583

229

Ryan Xie & Elizabeth Chung

0.582

230

Connor Chun & Varun Bazaz

0.576

231

Riley Ross & Ezekiel Ehrenberg

0.574

232

Noah Hirokawa & Luna Lee

0.571

233

Izabella Yusupova & Fiore Chung

0.570

234

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

0.567

235

Lilly Spitzer & Suniva Achuthan

0.562

236

Oliver Beamer & Aari Sabnani

0.561

237

Abhay Sankar & Atharva Makode

0.558

238

Grady Pazona & Paul Schneider

0.557

239

Zijia Mo & Ava Fiala

0.556

240

Aiden D'Souza & Suhaas Valiveti

0.550

241

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.547

242

Thomas Shanmugam & William Shanmugam

0.539

243

Wayne Liang & Nikki Zheng

0.535

244

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

0.525

245

Feliks Lin & Andres Mendoza Casas

0.519

246

Timmy Chen & Umair Paranjpye

0.518

247

Shreyas Dharani & Jay Tamirisa

0.516

248

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

0.510

249

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.503

250

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

0.498

251

Ates Erden & Atakan Sevik

0.490

252

Tanvee Tirthapura & Sanyukta Ravishankar

0.484

253

Samuel Lauriello & Desmond Augustine

0.483

254

Aidan Krishnaney & Zaid Ashruf

0.483

255

Annie Bovitz & Isabel Goldfarb

0.481

256

Edward Napoli & Clayton Prisament

0.477

257

William Long & Sisi Holden

0.475

258

Siri Nuthalapati & Alyssa Chen

0.475

259

Evan Moffitt & Noah Arthur

0.474

260

Jonathan Zu & Jacqueline Ma

0.472

261

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

0.471

262

Zebulon Taylor & Rishi Raichur

0.461

263

Thomas Mastella & William Mastella

0.459

264

Aahana Gupta & Evelyn Asay

0.458

265

Solomon Binyaminov & Jasmine Liang

0.455

266

Jennie Wang & Amy Zhang

0.447

267

Ray He & Claire Au

0.447

268

Meena Adusumilli & Aadya Goel

0.445

269

Angelise Chang & Samhita Laxman

0.443

270

Evelyn Tucker & Isabella Zhang

0.433

271

Melinda Synn & Ali Fehmi

0.433

272

Grace Gladson & Ellen Kuck

0.433

273

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

0.431

274

Aashna Bhakkad & Anoushka Rai

0.430

275

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

0.423

276

Michael Jiang & Aileen Wu

0.422

277

Diane Allain-Tereshchenko & Emanuel Sasson

0.420

278

Yuming Yang & Aditya Arora

0.413

279

Oliver Ji & Eli Lunde

0.410

280

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

0.406

281

Wenxuan Zhong & Liam Gee

0.401

282

Sahasra Godlaveti & Ava Datta

0.399

283

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

0.399

284

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

0.397

285

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

0.395

286

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

0.394

287

Ananya Lakkaraju & Liyuan Yao

0.394

288

Gene Yoon & Rikhil Ranjit

0.393

289

Sumedh Kotrannavar & Richard Shan

0.389

290

Ray Eggerts & Tova Albert

0.389

291

Connor Chun & Sahil Gubbi

0.389

292

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

0.384

293

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

0.383

294

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.383

295

Kaushik Sathiyandrakumar & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.376

296

Timothy Kirichenko & Keshav Harpavat

0.376

297

Eleyn Xiong & Baylen Shi

0.372

298

Emmet O'Sullivan & Owen O'Toole

0.366

299

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

0.365

300

Rishya Vemireddy & Advaita Ayuluri

0.365