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

301

Amanda Zhong & Stephanie Yan

0.362

302

Blair Shao & Andrew Wells

0.362

303

Alyssa Chen & Lindsay Coady

0.361

304

Liam Charest & Dylan O'Sullivan

0.361

305

Chloe Lin & Aviva Wang

0.361

306

Spencer Chaisanguanthum & Shreya Saravanan

0.359

307

Helen Yu & Stephanie Liao

0.358

308

Stavan Shah & Roy Kapoor

0.355

309

Joshua Zhou & Finn Ye

0.353

310

Sisy Aung & Austin Bate Agborsangaya

0.351

311

Apollin Lu & Danny Zhang

0.349

312

Audrey Yang & Christian Lee

0.347

313

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

0.346

314

Raihanna Shamsudin & Siddharth Srinivas

0.345

315

Zayd Patel & Preston Lieu

0.342

316

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

0.341

317

Ethan Chen & Santiago Alvarez

0.337

318

Ved Kusurkar & Jun-hyeok Moon

0.337

319

Christopher Wang & Justin Azad

0.336

320

Christine Zhong & Kevin Cisneros

0.336

321

Rhianna Zhang & Alex Tao

0.335

322

Josephine Lee & Nandita Aiyer

0.333

323

Sukruth Jangala & Shriish Sathish

0.333

324

Albert Wu & Amanda Zhong

0.332

325

Nakul Banka & Aiden Tracey

0.331

326

Carter Nelson & Raymond Nguyen

0.330

327

Alina Qian & Arjun Patel

0.323

328

Saisha Pal & Arushi Gireesha

0.321

329

Sean Lu & Pingkang Qian

0.320

330

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

0.319

331

Kethan Neginhal & Dash Carey-squire

0.314

332

Austin She & Tanuj Karthikeyan

0.312

333

Ethan Deitcher & Ethan Chen

0.309

334

Sophie Lu & Saanvi Goyal

0.308

335

Gia Jhaveri & Amanda Lee

0.307

336

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

0.307

337

Etienne Yang & Chiara D'agostino

0.305

338

Simona Wang & Benjamin Xiao

0.301

339

Connor Engstrom & Tanush Aggarwal

0.299

340

Zachary Gibson & Sankalp Manjesh

0.299

341

Evan Shin & Ryan Shin

0.297

342

Yang Bai & Amanda Yi

0.297

343

Spencer Walker & Kushal Patil

0.295

344

Adithi Belur & Manasi Iyer

0.294

345

Chelsea Guo & Nisha Nandy

0.293

346

Courtney Otieno & Clara Tran

0.292

347

Eric Barbiere & Ava Barbiere

0.291

348

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

0.291

349

Samay Nistala & Vedant Tripathi

0.288

350

Eliza Teo & Palmer McNulty

0.287

351

Saidhar Pinapati & Ritwik Gupta

0.286

352

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.286

353

Spencer Chaisanguanthum & Nathaniel Dsilva

0.286

354

Brad Bobaru & Lucas Neamu

0.284

355

Saishruthi Lakshminarayanan & Isabel Perez

0.283

356

Maximilian Urban & Magdalena Sarcos

0.283

357

Atharv Gabada & Surya Nookala

0.282

358

Rithika Binu & Rajiv Nemani

0.281

359

Hannah Mullins & Rajorshi Basu

0.279

360

Daniel Jiang & Winston Ling

0.278

361

Sasha Londoner & Zahaan Batliboi

0.276

362

Bela Sehgal & Dessie Yang

0.275

363

Hannah Xu & Aidan Krishnaney

0.275

364

Annabel Gottlieb & Roberto Bailey

0.273

365

Ethan Zhao & Daniel Guo

0.271

366

Teddy Rasmussen & Tobias Penner

0.270

367

Ryan Wu & Kellen Wang

0.269

368

Pavanaj Gupta & Jocelyn Wu

0.269

369

Allyson Lingo & Christopher Lin

0.269

370

Callaway Weeks & Grant Wiessner

0.268

371

Akhil Bettadapura & Akshat Magesh

0.267

372

Ngawang Namgyal & Odessa MuA+-oz

0.266

373

Austin Wang & Makayla Chang

0.266

374

Heather Chang & Simone Vinay

0.264

375

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.262

376

Aumrita Savdharia & Melinda (Michi) Synn

0.261

377

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

0.260

378

Victor Kang & Kenan Hu

0.260

379

Wayne Liang & Sophia Zhang

0.259

380

Shravya Sethi & Diya Bidani

0.259

381

Aidan Lee & Ian Lee

0.258

382

Zoya Jamal & Katie Vo

0.257

383

Helena Martinez & Ibrahim Arain

0.257

384

Victor Chen & Victor Zhang

0.257

385

Shankaran Srivatsa & Vivaan Beri

0.254

386

Avni Tewari & Emerly Lee

0.253

387

Hannah Kim & Amey Kashyap

0.252

388

Larkin Murray & Sophia Wu

0.252

389

Divija Rao & Anisha Chandra

0.251

390

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.250

391

Vedant Misra & Kaushik Sathiyandrakumar

0.249

392

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

0.249

393

Timothy Park & Benjamin Brown

0.248

394

Advaith Nair & Imad Shaikh

0.248

395

Rhea Katarki & Leila Xie

0.247

396

Marcus Zhang & Haoming Jadon Yao

0.246

397

Jae-hyeok Moon & Sudeep Vattikuti

0.246

398

Millen Wadhwa & Noah Wong

0.245

399

Amethyst Stencik & Talia Askenazi

0.243

400

Neha Reddy & Mahita Bontu

0.241