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

401

Le Wang

0.118

402

Aanya Ramaswamy

0.117

403

Heather Yang

0.116

404

Bowie Lee

0.116

405

Mairead Farace

0.115

406

Aditya Maram

0.115

407

Christopher Shin

0.115

408

Justin Zou

0.115

409

Pritam Misri

0.114

410

Prisha Kaushik

0.114

411

Russell Huber

0.111

412

Anik Chobe

0.111

413

Janani Janakiraman

0.110

414

Connor Kinahan

0.106

415

Pratosh Raman

0.106

416

Faisal Hamzeh

0.105

417

Evelyn Shao

0.104

418

Kayla Owusu

0.103

419

Claire Sun

0.103

420

Tiffany Chou

0.103

421

Lavi Avigad

0.102

422

Sarah Kim

0.101

423

James Kennon

0.101

424

Jacob Quililan

0.101

425

Neel Mavalli

0.097

426

Ruby Albert

0.097

427

Chance Hudson

0.097

428

Aditya Sheelavant

0.095

429

Craig O'Sullivan

0.095

430

Joseph Hayes

0.095

431

Emily Ramirez

0.094

432

Sarah Meisel

0.094

433

Chidvilas Gurram

0.094

434

Angelina Isaac

0.091

435

Leo Cruz

0.091

436

Meghan McAvoy

0.090

437

Emily Mei

0.089

438

Tiffany Au

0.089

439

Inaya Rahim

0.089

440

Cyris Lim

0.087

442

Mallory Logsdon

0.085

443

Andrew Kommu

0.085

444

Ayat Jaffar

0.084

445

Viraja Shivhare

0.083

446

Alina Diaz

0.082

447

Jessica Fan

0.081

448

Kenneth Lu

0.081

449

Chloe Tjo

0.078

450

Kyle Oh

0.077

451

Christianna Thomas

0.076

452

Gabrielle Torrence

0.076

453

Joel Cardenas

0.075

454

Kaylee Kim

0.074

455

Aarushi Agarwal

0.074

456

Samuel Wawi

0.073

457

Ishaan Dhillon-Patel

0.072

458

Daniel Cherniak

0.072

459

June Peers

0.071

460

Luis Artiz

0.070

461

Eytan Ek

0.070

462

Jaden Williams

0.069

463

Andrew Wu

0.069

464

Shirin Sadoughi

0.068

465

Judi Abdelrazik

0.067

466

Emanuel Vargas

0.066

467

Lucy Shi

0.065

468

Arnav Arjula

0.064

469

Angela Lu

0.064

470

Molly Wladis

0.063

471

Kaitlyn Tapia

0.061

472

Joanna Chen

0.061

473

Elena Zhang

0.061

474

Shanaya Jana

0.060

475

Brenda Maciel

0.060

476

Zoey Rui

0.060

477

Wendy Sun

0.059

478

Chris Correia

0.059

479

Allison Lee

0.059

480

Cassie Schebel

0.058

481

Pratyush Arunprasad

0.058

483

Brendan Liu

0.058

484

Harshini Sanjay

0.057

485

Avigail Wus

0.057

486

Caroline Hodges

0.057

487

Preston Mallett

0.056

488

Eric Wang

0.056

489

Ian Gao

0.055

490

Robert Joo

0.055

491

Jack Musitano

0.054

492

Armita Arani

0.054

493

Michelle Lee

0.054

494

Beverly Kang

0.053

495

Meghana Mali

0.052

496

Rohan Rao

0.052

497

Grant Young

0.051

498

Joseph Blaine

0.051

499

Lilah Hopper-Hedges

0.050

500

Mila Matteson

0.050

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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