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:

January 16, 2025


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

Justin Wen

4.093

2

Iva Liu

4.045

3

Riley Ro

3.814

4

Om Modi

3.741

5

Sterling Utovac

3.656

6

Siddhartha Daswani

3.575

7

Sarah Koshy

3.510

8

Selina Zhang

3.458

9

Jack Borman

3.203

10

Prateek Seela

2.896

11

Miller Roberts

2.762

12

Shiwen Huang

2.627

14

William Liu

2.566

15

Kaison Maruyama

2.534

16

Salma Gheith

2.507

17

Jack Gessner

2.491

18

Timothy Jiang

2.437

19

Vishal Surya

2.402

20

Erin Jia

2.388

21

Andrew Brandt

2.377

22

Reese Potash

2.353

23

Kelvin Meng

2.345

24

Atharva Srivastava

2.296

25

Rowan MacLean

2.241

26

Austin Loui

2.208

27

Easton Peters

2.195

28

Vikrant Vadathavoor

2.178

29

Michael Meng

2.143

30

Dash Gilrain-Lennon

2.134

31

Ethan Yang

2.086

32

Abhinav Kasturi

2.036

33

Kush Vijapure

2.032

34

Landon Stull

2.006

35

Jackson White

1.958

36

Aaron Yi

1.947

37

Ava Moon

1.945

38

Ashley Lourenco

1.929

39

Penelope Pressman

1.910

40

Aaron Kuang

1.899

41

William Li

1.895

42

Sanjith Senthil

1.881

43

Alexander Jayaratne

1.853

44

Abby Merges

1.835

45

Roshan Amurthur

1.834

46

Olivia Ohr

1.824

47

Mirei Saneyoshi

1.817

48

Aditya Shetty

1.799

49

Fahim Jahingir

1.775

50

Anderson Hendrix

1.770

52

Brooke Gemechu

1.761

53

Bolang Zhu

1.753

54

Nikhil Bawa

1.737

55

Harris Layson

1.703

56

Brooke Schiano-Gonzalez

1.701

57

Andrew Gaffin

1.682

58

Amanda Yu

1.675

59

Sophie Zhou

1.648

60

William Covington

1.637

61

Taejun Kim

1.595

62

Albert Cai

1.580

63

Ezana Haile

1.573

64

Meera Shah

1.570

65

Xavier Phillip

1.565

66

Liam McDonald

1.556

67

Angel Ribo

1.552

68

Isaac Love

1.528

69

Christopher Liu

1.512

70

Ananya Pradhan

1.504

71

Micah Byron-Smarra

1.502

72

Max Gu

1.494

73

Derek Han

1.449

74

Lula Wang

1.444

75

Asher Meron

1.411

76

Neel Kannambadi

1.410

77

August Sone

1.399

78

Andrew Park

1.394

79

Ethan Chen

1.374

80

Harris James

1.359

81

Samuel Rubinstein

1.345

82

Ashley Rini

1.338

83

Allison Liu

1.320

84

Kaitlyn Tapia

1.297

85

Chloe Shao

1.295

86

Angelina Antony

1.294

88

James Young

1.284

89

Emma Sobel

1.273

90

Flynn Williams

1.248

91

Sofia Shah

1.239

92

Parker Hamstra

1.233

93

Jerry Li

1.213

94

Sahngwie Yim

1.208

95

Wali Hasan

1.207

96

Neel Aparanji

1.194

97

Lucas Cao

1.190

98

Surya Dasari

1.182

99

Aaron Choi

1.181

100

Tomas Gonzalez

1.179

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Jason Zhao & Daniel Guo

3.487

2

Romir Patel & Ezekiel Ehrenberg

3.446

3

Kayte Chan & Anika Gupta

3.366

4

Eshan Ahmad & Rajan Sambandam

3.116

5

Faizaan Ahmad & Bashir Eltyeb

2.969

6

Derek Song & Ali Fehmi

2.941

7

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.691

8

Brett MacKay & Cameron Ingram

2.602

9

Pranav Ravulapati & Raya Jung

2.602

10

Christopher Tang & Cooper Li

2.599

11

Bryan Zhao & Alexander Zhang

2.486

12

Devin Lester & Yezul Maharjan

2.429

13

Anuj Lohtia & Arrman Kapoor

2.429

14

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

2.385

15

Evan McElfresh & William Filocamo

2.348

16

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.340

17

Avni Iyer & Bhavya Kumar

2.329

18

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

2.326

19

Rejul Guru & Sudeep Vattikuti

2.302

20

Zellie Olson & Eva Redmond

2.300

21

Vedatman Duhoon & Vaibhav Wudaru

2.286

22

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.272

23

Ryan Chen & Nicky Wang

2.264

24

Ronav Ganesh & Arnav Agarwal

2.256

25

Tristan Mankovsky & Sasha Leifer

2.245

26

Tony Liu & Hamza Banatwala

2.225

27

Aarav Motivala & Sahaj Bhandari

2.188

28

Kaylee Chen & Ruhi Kurdikar

2.186

29

Aumrita Savdharia & Stavan Shah

2.181

30

Dev Sharma & Ayan Bakshi

2.178

31

Arvind Krishnan & Ethan Tauro

2.174

32

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

2.168

33

Maeve Welch & Salman Memon

2.158

34

Melinda Synn & Justin Wang

2.156

35

Andres Mendoza Casas & Luis Carvajal Picott

2.141

36

Claire Sim & Brian Liu

2.089

37

Feifan Liu & Mingyi Chen

2.072

38

Connor Chun & Vishwa Rakasi

2.066

39

Rehan Merchant & Campbell Haire

2.066

40

Natalie Berman & Nicholas Willett

2.050

41

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.046

42

Anushree Samsi & Armaan Sharma

2.022

43

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

2.016

44

Jeffrey Guan & Zhengyao Liew

1.963

45

Tesu Ham & Farhan Khan

1.956

46

Owen Erdman & Samuel Weisz

1.948

47

Connor Chun & Sahil Gubbi

1.932

48

Zayn Charania & Aaron Pinto

1.932

49

Anuraa Venkat & Aanya Mohta

1.919

50

Daniel Mendelson & Max Salomon

1.896

51

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

1.874

52

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.866

53

Jason Zhao & Mac Stratton

1.861

54

Adelaide Chow & Grace Wieland

1.849

55

Leon Le & Alice Luo

1.844

56

Ray Eggerts & Ana Sorrentino

1.833

57

Racheal Wang & Allyson Lingo

1.826

58

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

1.752

59

Amber Wong & Yashvi Jaladi

1.728

60

Annie Bovitz & Isabel Goldfarb

1.719

61

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

1.716

62

Aaron Tian & Isabel Tang

1.716

63

Joseph Johnson & Wali Sidiqyar

1.714

64

Ray Sun & Austin She

1.707

65

Eddie El-Fadil & Yasha Durnev

1.681

66

Alan Tai & Saanvi Goyal

1.680

67

Jackson Hayward & Oliver Alferness

1.663

68

Ansh Singhal & Niranjan Ashok

1.652

69

David Lu & Feliks Lin

1.642

70

Kira Bhatia & Lexie Malik

1.628

71

Ryan Grondin & Peter Grande

1.613

72

Vincent Zhu & Ted Dudley

1.593

73

Alex Fagell & Hani Garside

1.591

74

Sean Lu & Leon Yang

1.578

75

Anna Zhang & Chenjia Ni

1.556

76

Ignacio Chazarreta & Joseph Alonso

1.555

77

Jet Tsang & Anthony Luo

1.554

78

Leon Wang & Sherry Lin

1.551

79

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

1.540

80

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

1.537

81

Luke Zhong & Andrew Li

1.537

82

Vihaan Jain & Kevin Ren

1.529

83

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.529

84

Yonathan Bar & Sunay Chawla

1.500

85

Ben Yoo & Chase Waldheim

1.495

86

Rohin Prashanth & Amogh Janganure

1.495

87

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

1.488

88

Cady Wu & Natalie Zhang

1.474

89

Roger Li & Julian Carlile

1.459

90

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

1.455

91

Nikhil Daniel & Amanda DeStefano

1.449

92

Charlie Yang & Wenzhuo Zhang

1.448

93

Abhiram Iyer & Pravith Munipalle

1.430

94

Selma Bahrani & Daniel Wu

1.428

95

Sarayu Pasumarthi & Adya Balakrishnan

1.422

96

Ishaan Ahsan & Austin She

1.420

97

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

1.408

98

Linda Zhang & Joyce Liu

1.407

99

Sophia Xiong & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.397

100

James Yu & Junseo Lee

1.391