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

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