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

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