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

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