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

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