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

201

Yihe Chen

0.371

202

Xavier Phillip

0.370

203

Ezra Segal

0.368

204

Justin Ding

0.366

205

Ruby Simon

0.360

206

Megan Waters

0.358

207

Param Raval

0.357

208

Elijah Cruz

0.357

209

Daena Kim

0.357

210

Pranav Sreenivas

0.353

211

Kaden Buckner

0.352

212

Jaylen Hilario-Peralta

0.350

213

Ethan Louie

0.344

214

Trent Hedrick

0.343

215

Gabrielle Mckenzie

0.339

216

Ren Bhaskar

0.337

217

Dorie He

0.335

218

Aiden Wang

0.335

219

Gianna Han

0.332

220

Dylan Carey

0.327

221

Thatcher Hartman

0.325

223

Kiep Leon

0.320

224

Drew Benthein

0.318

225

Taro Porschke

0.316

226

William Wei

0.315

227

Ethan Wu

0.314

228

Omar Obeidat

0.313

229

Neil Marwah

0.312

230

Anirudh Subramanian

0.306

231

Austen Richardson

0.305

232

Stanley Liu

0.305

233

Andy Miani

0.304

234

Beau Cartwright

0.299

235

Hamsika Nittala

0.295

236

Dash Gilrain-Lennon

0.295

237

Daniel Park

0.291

238

Aanya Bhardwaj

0.287

239

Aaron Situ

0.284

240

Sherine Liu

0.281

241

Francesca Moreno

0.280

242

Reanna Mohler

0.279

243

Aidan Lishner

0.279

244

Amily Zhang

0.279

245

Aidan Haya

0.276

246

Ellis Yang

0.276

247

Sam Elichman

0.274

248

Haider Zaidi

0.274

249

Johnny Stumpff

0.274

250

Zhaohua Chen

0.271

251

Leo Zhang

0.271

252

Sophie O'Brien

0.266

253

Abigail Imley

0.265

254

Sameer Kandra

0.265

255

Yifan Sheng

0.262

256

Mason Sterling

0.261

257

Caleb Kim

0.261

258

Nicholas Fedorov

0.259

259

Saharsh Madullapalli

0.257

260

Jasmine Shao

0.256

261

Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

0.256

262

Surya Dasari

0.255

263

Rohan Chimata

0.254

264

Joshua Burriola

0.254

265

Jiya Jolly

0.253

266

Winston Chou

0.252

267

Pranav Narra

0.250

268

Mahima Sanghera

0.250

269

Sir Oliver Li

0.249

270

Zihao Yan

0.248

271

Jason Jiang

0.247

272

William McLain

0.246

273

Miles Hua

0.244

274

Izzy Lee

0.243

275

Ella Min

0.238

276

Alara Martin

0.237

278

Ethan Chen

0.237

279

Saish Swamidurai

0.236

280

Solomon Schwartzman

0.235

281

Ethan Park

0.234

282

Olivia Amir

0.233

283

Jack Brown

0.232

284

Jeffrey Tvedt

0.232

285

Lillian Curtis

0.230

286

Jacob Waxman

0.229

287

Caleb Im

0.228

288

Khushee Totla

0.227

289

Maxwell Hu

0.227

290

Anika Goyal

0.227

291

Saket Reddyjargu

0.227

292

Mason Csantaveri

0.226

293

Alexandra Mitchell

0.223

294

Vivek Thankavel

0.223

295

Ashley Rini

0.222

296

Ali Naseem

0.219

297

Jackson Willis

0.215

298

Rishil Nettam

0.214

299

Ethan Dumper

0.214

300

Connor Chau

0.214

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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