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

301

Darsh Maheshwari

0.213

302

Chupeng Gui

0.212

303

Emma Tan

0.211

304

Atharv Gandhi

0.211

305

Shashi Uppuluri

0.209

306

Margalit Salkin

0.209

307

Nilesh Mudupalli

0.208

308

Noah Perry

0.208

309

Eric Xing

0.208

310

Ziyi Chen

0.206

312

Reha Patel

0.202

313

Sarah Cruser

0.201

314

Isabella Huang

0.201

315

Anya Pathak

0.199

316

Evan Lee

0.196

317

Nate Bomze

0.196

318

Hayul (Ellie) Kim

0.195

319

Siddharth Vedam

0.193

320

Hannah Sun

0.192

321

Jacob Su

0.191

322

Noelle Yoo

0.191

323

Owen Reed

0.190

324

Raahil Sengupta

0.189

325

Jessica Wong

0.189

326

Vance Fulton

0.188

327

Amina Boubezari

0.188

328

Vera Sorotokin

0.188

329

Cindy Tang

0.185

330

Ivy Zhou

0.184

331

Steven Chi

0.184

332

Ayeshwarya Sisodia

0.182

333

Samarth Sethi

0.182

334

Audrey Eckert

0.181

335

Sofia Aguila

0.179

336

Jayden Park

0.178

337

Aryan Siravuri

0.177

338

Sage Stanley

0.175

339

Liam Lee

0.171

340

Kelly Jin

0.171

341

Aarav Pulsani

0.170

342

Matthew Tamayo

0.166

343

Sophie Weiss

0.164

344

Carmen Cielinski

0.164

345

Sid Sharma

0.162

346

Madeleine De Leon-Wagner

0.162

347

Savan Boxer

0.161

348

Emma Xu

0.160

349

Siena Grouf

0.160

350

Alison Om

0.159

351

Suchita Vennam

0.159

352

Charles Hamm

0.157

353

Oliver Tan

0.152

354

Plamen Checketts

0.152

355

Princeton Kang

0.151

356

Feliciano Serrano

0.147

357

Victor Kang

0.146

358

Rebecca Clark

0.146

359

Maxwell Mao

0.146

360

Dannan Garner

0.145

361

Jad Vicente

0.143

362

Arjun Elango

0.141

363

Shane Masterson

0.141

364

Eli Seidner

0.140

365

Zaid Rashid

0.140

366

Barclay Blair

0.139

367

Ansh Shamdasani

0.139

368

Oliver Zhang

0.138

369

Grace Chen

0.138

370

Eve Parrott

0.138

371

Akshaj Nandigam

0.137

372

Carson Mueller

0.137

373

Aaron Yoo

0.137

374

Alisha Kim

0.135

375

Camille Fernandez

0.134

376

Jason Huang

0.134

377

Yash Kandanuru

0.134

378

Camille Johns

0.133

379

Vin Wiemelt

0.133

380

Shawn Lo

0.132

381

Rhea Sreedhar

0.132

382

Alice Yi

0.130

383

Andrea Wong

0.130

384

Samantha Fortier

0.129

385

Andy Mezgravis-Miani

0.129

386

Izzie Chang

0.128

387

Saanvi Mittal

0.128

388

Princeden Hom

0.128

389

Rachel Stein

0.127

390

Cameron Buhl

0.126

391

Brian Treadwell

0.124

392

Sage Bonotto

0.122

393

Allison Zhu

0.122

394

Bella Ma

0.122

395

Aneesh Sattiraju

0.122

396

Skanda Gopikannan

0.122

397

Christopher Correia

0.121

398

Brijnandan Saranu

0.121

399

Abhinav Deshpande

0.120

400

Bryan Fu

0.120

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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