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

1

Riley Ro

3.814

2

Iva Liu

3.734

3

Sterling Utovac

3.656

4

Om Modi

3.628

5

Siddhartha Daswani

3.532

6

Justin Wen

3.316

7

Selina Zhang

3.252

8

Prateek Seela

2.896

9

Jack Borman

2.849

10

Kaison Maruyama

2.605

11

Sarah Koshy

2.550

12

Jack Gessner

2.426

13

Miller Roberts

2.392

14

Rowan MacLean

2.327

15

Erin Jia

2.288

16

Timothy Jiang

2.288

17

Reese Potash

2.253

18

Vikrant Vadathavoor

2.206

19

William Liu

2.169

20

Andrew Brandt

2.056

21

Michael Meng

2.049

22

Penelope Pressman

1.975

23

Kelvin Meng

1.967

24

Vishal Surya

1.943

25

Easton Peters

1.929

26

Austin Loui

1.874

27

Shiwen Huang

1.826

28

Mirei Saneyoshi

1.817

29

Aditya Shetty

1.799

30

Salma Gheith

1.797

31

Abhinav Kasturi

1.776

32

Ashley Lourenco

1.766

33

Brooke Gemechu

1.761

34

Olivia Ohr

1.761

35

Harris Layson

1.703

36

Amanda Yu

1.697

37

Landon Stull

1.691

38

Sanjith Senthil

1.665

40

William Covington

1.637

41

Aaron Yi

1.628

42

Kush Vijapure

1.625

43

Liam McDonald

1.625

44

Ava Moon

1.615

45

Ethan Yang

1.609

46

Isaac Love

1.598

47

Nikhil Bawa

1.592

48

Anderson Hendrix

1.582

49

Albert Cai

1.580

50

Abby Merges

1.572

51

Ezana Haile

1.537

52

Roshan Amurthur

1.514

53

Ananya Pradhan

1.504

54

Bolang Zhu

1.498

55

Aaron Kuang

1.460

56

Derek Han

1.449

57

Angel Ribo

1.398

58

Taejun Kim

1.387

59

Micah Byron-Smarra

1.377

60

Fahim Jahingir

1.341

61

Neel Kannambadi

1.331

62

Angelina Antony

1.331

63

Max Gu

1.326

64

Atharva Srivastava

1.315

65

Harris James

1.304

67

Sophie Zhou

1.302

68

Andrew Gaffin

1.290

69

August Sone

1.242

70

Sofia Shah

1.239

71

Sahngwie Yim

1.231

72

Chloe Shao

1.215

73

Wali Hasan

1.207

74

Neel Aparanji

1.194

75

Lucas Cao

1.174

76

Lilly Stobo

1.169

77

Christopher Liu

1.147

78

Samuel Rubinstein

1.123

79

Andrew Park

1.097

80

Karenna Mehta

1.091

81

Benjamin Weiner

1.057

82

Veronica Zhang

1.031

83

Adeena Naeem

1.019

84

Emma Sobel

1.005

86

Esther Goldman

0.963

87

Parker Hamstra

0.952

88

Aarnav Agrawal

0.952

89

Rishad Vaghaiwalla

0.944

90

Noah Arthur

0.936

91

Felicity Zhang

0.934

92

Tomas Gonzalez

0.926

93

Flynn Williams

0.922

94

John Joyce

0.917

95

Emilio Garza

0.916

96

Brooke Schiano-Gonzalez

0.907

97

Nathaniel Watkins

0.889

98

Dariia Chugueva

0.871

99

Lula Wang

0.867

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NSD Alumni represent 50 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

101

Neelay Shah & Shaan Mehta

1.071

102

Ramsey Warner & Ariyanna Ghala

1.055

103

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

1.054

104

Abhiram Iyer & Pravith Munipalle

1.047

105

Alan Tai & Saanvi Goyal

1.044

106

Roha Rupareliya & Justin Wang

1.011

107

Zain Kapoor & Advik Chandok

1.009

108

Thelonious Kurland & Leo Hao

1.004

109

Claire Sim & Brian Liu

0.998

110

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

0.997

111

Ashton Paul & Gustavo Membreno

0.997

112

Martin Huang & Jack Zhang

0.993

113

Shreya Pawar & Jessica Kim

0.993

114

Sean Lu & Leon Yang

0.992

115

Grace Li & Katherine Xue

0.985

116

Ishaan Ahsan & Austin She

0.979

117

Nathan Lee & Alyssa Chen

0.969

118

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

0.969

119

Allen Liu & Gaurav Rao

0.961

120

Luke Zhong & Andrew Li

0.954

121

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.934

122

Ethan Mao & Paul Wang

0.933

123

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

0.931

124

Ingrid Alg & Sree Baruri

0.928

125

Ezra McCullers & Jared Bart

0.928

126

Peter Hablinski & Winston Wu

0.925

127

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

0.921

128

Christopher Lin & Yhali Matot

0.904

129

Ashish Goswami & Leonardo Jia

0.897

130

Shruthi Nagulapalli & Ariana Corbu

0.896

131

Anna Jhon & Charles Lu

0.892

132

Shoumili Tarafder & Clara Stamm

0.884

133

Gurneel Batra & Shaurya Paul

0.880

134

Akshaj Bozza & Shaunik Musukula

0.872

135

Naina Chopra & Andy Mei

0.865

136

Jasmine Merrikh & Meredith Yount

0.864

137

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

0.864

138

Ben Rask & Soumil Bhandari

0.856

139

Aaron Eagan & Jason Cohen

0.854

140

David Lu & Feliks Lin

0.852

141

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

0.850

142

Rose Semmel & Una Cutrone

0.848

143

Sameet Das & Atharv Mahajan

0.848

144

Selma Bahrani & Daniel Wu

0.840

145

Arnav Maheshwari & Varun Shenoy

0.832

146

Anishka Kallepalli & Anoushka Rajeshkumar

0.830

147

Brad Cao & Faith Zhao

0.825

148

Kira Bhatia & Lexie Malik

0.823

149

Jet Tsang & Anthony Luo

0.822

150

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

0.815

151

Alex Lee & Alexander Jen

0.813

152

Alex Cai & Ryder Tang

0.810

153

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

0.810

154

Arjun Myneni & Navadeep Budda

0.807

155

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.806

156

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

0.797

157

Linda Zhang & Joyce Liu

0.793

158

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

0.792

159

John Joyce & Ben Miyares

0.789

160

Ronav Ganesh & Arnav Agarwal

0.779

161

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.774

162

Anshika Agrawal & Siri Ramineni

0.772

163

Avital Dumontet & Alexandra Kosloff

0.762

164

Sebastian Engle & Nathaniel Dsilva

0.757

165

Varun Bazaz & Miles Gu

0.746

166

Kisa Kazmi & Akshitha Varre

0.744

167

Derek Song & Ali Fehmi

0.743

168

Tina Li & Matthew Liu

0.742

169

Ryan Grondin & Peter Grande

0.741

170

Alexei Varah & Ruiyu Tang

0.738

171

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

0.736

172

Lewis Le & Jarod Jiang

0.733

173

Alexia Lara & Sofia Teifeld

0.730

174

Raj Trivedi & Ian Ngo

0.728

175

Charlie Yang & Wenzhuo Zhang

0.719

176

Vihaan Patel & Aadi Loonawat

0.717

177

Grace Fu & Helen Han

0.715

178

Jaeyoon Lee & Xuanyu Dong

0.709

179

Ethan Zhao & Mac Stratton

0.708

180

Rina Li & Sherry Huang

0.706

181

Nare Sheroyan & Emily Chamichyan

0.702

182

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

0.700

183

Arthur Monastyrsky & Shane Dell

0.698

184

Jayden Liu & Aditya Mukker

0.693

185

Ansh Singhal & Niranjan Ashok

0.686

186

Claire Watz & Sadie Slobin

0.684

187

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

0.683

188

Nymisha Goli & Mekala Sundaram

0.682

189

Ananya Appalakutty & Kristine Yu

0.680

190

Aaditya Manami-Ratan & Samanyu Gowda

0.677

191

Calder Weiss & Dexter Theisen

0.672

192

Lauren Jain & Ethan Huang

0.671

193

Coco Campbell & Fred Bao

0.666

194

Ellis Brown & Sofia Telio

0.666

195

Mia Dalzell & Netta Miller

0.662

196

Oliver Chen & Evan Zhang

0.658

197

Sarina Shah & James Kapadia

0.657

198

Lionel Augustine & Leonardo Damato

0.654

199

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

0.653

200

Aarav Jamdar & Dominic Wang

0.653