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

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