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

201

Colin Xu & Anna Yi

0.651

202

Ankith Gundimeda & Graham Canter

0.649

203

Rishi Ramaswamy & Sahana Rajesh

0.639

204

Shreyas Pokharna & Devam Shah

0.637

205

Rushil Baindla & Felix Xu

0.625

206

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

0.623

207

Yashas Singh & Jiseung Jung

0.622

208

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

0.622

209

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.622

210

Gillian Ho & Michael Ji

0.620

211

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

0.619

212

Willow Tham & Mahati Mudgal

0.616

213

Dhanyashree Ramanathan & Stella Bie

0.612

214

Pranav Pradeep & Prthvi Pradeep

0.611

215

Anya Gopalakrishnan & Ahana Raghavan

0.605

216

Arham Shah & Sophia Patel

0.604

217

Aanya Baddela & Spencer Chaisanguanthum

0.604

218

Daniel Mendelson & Max Salomon

0.601

219

Kevin Cheng & Claire Tsai

0.597

220

Derek Song & Victor Cociorva

0.595

221

Leo Cheng & Joy Xia

0.593

222

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

0.590

223

Dillan Jagannath & Alex Liu

0.589

224

Claire Cao & Oliver Stiele

0.586

225

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

0.586

226

Luke Zhong & Dessie Yang

0.585

227

Allen Hawkins & James Houser

0.584

228

Abigail McDonald & Jamie Berntson

0.583

229

Ryan Xie & Elizabeth Chung

0.582

230

Connor Chun & Varun Bazaz

0.576

231

Riley Ross & Ezekiel Ehrenberg

0.574

232

Noah Hirokawa & Luna Lee

0.571

233

Izabella Yusupova & Fiore Chung

0.570

234

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

0.567

235

Lilly Spitzer & Suniva Achuthan

0.562

236

Oliver Beamer & Aari Sabnani

0.561

237

Abhay Sankar & Atharva Makode

0.558

238

Grady Pazona & Paul Schneider

0.557

239

Zijia Mo & Ava Fiala

0.556

240

Aiden D'Souza & Suhaas Valiveti

0.550

241

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.547

242

Thomas Shanmugam & William Shanmugam

0.539

243

Wayne Liang & Nikki Zheng

0.535

244

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

0.525

245

Feliks Lin & Andres Mendoza Casas

0.519

246

Timmy Chen & Umair Paranjpye

0.518

247

Shreyas Dharani & Jay Tamirisa

0.516

248

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

0.510

249

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.503

250

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

0.498

251

Ates Erden & Atakan Sevik

0.490

252

Tanvee Tirthapura & Sanyukta Ravishankar

0.484

253

Samuel Lauriello & Desmond Augustine

0.483

254

Aidan Krishnaney & Zaid Ashruf

0.483

255

Annie Bovitz & Isabel Goldfarb

0.481

256

Edward Napoli & Clayton Prisament

0.477

257

William Long & Sisi Holden

0.475

258

Siri Nuthalapati & Alyssa Chen

0.475

259

Evan Moffitt & Noah Arthur

0.474

260

Jonathan Zu & Jacqueline Ma

0.472

261

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

0.471

262

Zebulon Taylor & Rishi Raichur

0.461

263

Thomas Mastella & William Mastella

0.459

264

Aahana Gupta & Evelyn Asay

0.458

265

Solomon Binyaminov & Jasmine Liang

0.455

266

Jennie Wang & Amy Zhang

0.447

267

Ray He & Claire Au

0.447

268

Meena Adusumilli & Aadya Goel

0.445

269

Angelise Chang & Samhita Laxman

0.443

270

Evelyn Tucker & Isabella Zhang

0.433

271

Melinda Synn & Ali Fehmi

0.433

272

Grace Gladson & Ellen Kuck

0.433

273

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

0.431

274

Aashna Bhakkad & Anoushka Rai

0.430

275

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

0.423

276

Michael Jiang & Aileen Wu

0.422

277

Diane Allain-Tereshchenko & Emanuel Sasson

0.420

278

Yuming Yang & Aditya Arora

0.413

279

Oliver Ji & Eli Lunde

0.410

280

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

0.406

281

Wenxuan Zhong & Liam Gee

0.401

282

Sahasra Godlaveti & Ava Datta

0.399

283

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

0.399

284

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

0.397

285

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

0.395

286

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

0.394

287

Ananya Lakkaraju & Liyuan Yao

0.394

288

Gene Yoon & Rikhil Ranjit

0.393

289

Sumedh Kotrannavar & Richard Shan

0.389

290

Ray Eggerts & Tova Albert

0.389

291

Connor Chun & Sahil Gubbi

0.389

292

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

0.384

293

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

0.383

294

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.383

295

Kaushik Sathiyandrakumar & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.376

296

Timothy Kirichenko & Keshav Harpavat

0.376

297

Eleyn Xiong & Baylen Shi

0.372

298

Emmet O'Sullivan & Owen O'Toole

0.366

299

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

0.365

300

Rishya Vemireddy & Advaita Ayuluri

0.365