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

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