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

401

Alan Qi & Advik Bajpai

0.241

402

Reese Glasser & Jessie Gross

0.239

403

Riddhish Saravanan & Alex Liao

0.238

404

Amin Graia & Justin Sun

0.237

405

Samuel Stein & Matthew Su

0.237

406

Vivek Athipatla & Dhruv Kilaru

0.236

407

Kaitlyn Qin & Nikhil Peddibhotla

0.236

408

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.236

409

Fiona Qi & Aidan Krishnaney

0.236

410

Rohin Saharoy & Juno Hong

0.235

411

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

0.235

412

Jeremy Yang & Arjun Nair

0.234

413

Wayne Lu & Chaith Mittal

0.231

414

Charlie Price & Will McNairy

0.230

415

Ivy Zhang & Daniella Gan

0.229

416

Raghav Shrivastava & Anish Bhethanabotla

0.229

417

Richy Zheng & Alexander Chen

0.229

418

Austin Liu & Agasthya Jain

0.229

419

Flora Zhou & Ashwika Ganti

0.227

420

Uzair Jinnah & Matthew Rovere

0.227

421

Rishi Pandhi & Surag Swamisai

0.225

422

Varun Swarup & Ian Olenich

0.224

423

Phoebe Lee & Nathan Cho

0.222

424

Diksha Jaikumar & Charvi Patel

0.221

425

Sarah Tran & Xinyi Li

0.221

426

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

0.220

427

Aditya Venkatachalam & Ishan Saha

0.220

428

Aditya Nair & Sahil Kancherla

0.219

429

Jonathan Wu & Andrey Vasilyev

0.217

430

Ilina Jetley & Kassidy Khuu

0.217

431

Aayaan Sahu & Aarya Srinivasan

0.217

432

Ivy Zhang & Nicole Wang

0.216

433

Krishiv Manyam & Tiffany Liu

0.216

434

Shaan Magon & Miles Walker

0.214

435

Jayden Padwalkar & William Yoon

0.214

436

Jiayue Zou & Noelle Kim

0.213

437

Kedaar Garg & Tommy Hughes

0.213

438

Sahand Maleki & Phineas Quigley

0.213

439

Nyle Rizvi & Tejas Khurana

0.212

440

Ashton Paul & Amanda DeStefano

0.212

441

Grace Wang & Simran Vohra

0.212

442

Shaylan Patel & Jack Meyers

0.212

443

Herawie Kebede & Abby Tranter

0.209

444

Jennifer Liu & Sophie Yeh

0.209

445

Aadit Sharma & Ayan Nagulapally

0.209

446

Mohak Dhruv & Arjun Kurup

0.209

447

Rachna Chinya & Maira Jaswal

0.208

448

Helena Martinez & Vinay Sant

0.207

449

Tanvi Jain & Ameerah Suleman

0.206

450

Samanvita Kasibhatla & Anika Sud

0.205

451

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

0.205

452

Fiona Wu & Kate Song

0.204

453

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

0.203

454

Mark Dutta & Andre Dutta

0.203

455

Shreya Krishnakumar & Surya Nookala

0.202

456

Adonay Tewelde & Nathan Lee

0.202

457

Shiva Minter & Sophie Dildy

0.201

458

Jay Ali & Max Unglaub

0.199

459

Lucy Bugni & Daniel Martin

0.199

460

Kaidi Liu & Grace Xie

0.196

461

Yonathan Bar & Sunay Chawla

0.196

462

Damon Muller & Seth Small

0.195

463

Wiley Wang & Joselyn Coon

0.195

464

Kane Perry & Balint Weiszbart

0.195

465

Adam Tsui & Ian Schulz

0.193

466

Abbott Carothers & Aarush Tutiki

0.191

467

Lucy Bugni & Olivia Morsbach

0.190

468

Sebastian Engle & Isabelle Chiang

0.189

469

Mahika Goswami & Arjun Mamidi

0.188

470

Derek Tang & Annissa Li

0.187

471

Jaival Patel & Eshaan Chachad

0.187

472

Samantha Gerber & Dash Gilrain-Lennon

0.187

473

Owen Falk & Aari Sabnani

0.186

474

Kethan Neginhal & Varshith Kamisetty

0.186

475

Kush Vijapure & Fahim Jahingir

0.186

476

Pranav Pradeep & Roy Kapoor

0.185

477

Shaan Magon & Oliver Karam

0.184

478

Aarav Jamdar & James Yu

0.183

479

Judy Yen & Phoebe Hsu

0.183

480

Henry Pistilli & Kamran Shehabi

0.182

481

Ryan Wu & Heather Tsung

0.182

482

Bomi Woo & McKenna Levy

0.181

483

Terry Park & Lawrence Kuo

0.180

484

Marco Gonzalez & Akshaj Sama

0.179

485

Alice You & Genevieve DiPiero

0.177

486

Ray Sun & Ray Tan

0.176

487

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

0.176

488

Ayesha Patel & Ela Kini

0.176

489

Sophia Parang & Xinran Liu

0.176

490

Justinas Petkauskas & Arianna PeA+-a

0.175

491

Yaz Hathiram & Aarav Narang

0.175

492

Vinay Sant & Dhanush Tella

0.175

493

Jackie Zhao & Nate Lavichant

0.167

494

Colin Foster & Greg Guron

0.165

495

Jason Chae & Connor Leo

0.164

496

Suvas Sureneni & Mayank Dhote

0.162

497

Arav Mehta & Anysa Bickici

0.161

498

Garrison Mehlin & Trey Fenton

0.161

499

Neel Aparanji & Nicholas Childs

0.159

500

Hrishi Patel & Marko Gvozdenovic

0.158