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

202

Amandeep Manda

0.643

203

Serena Blutter

0.641

204

Haider Zaidi

0.637

205

Kaden Buckner

0.636

206

Theo Khakoo

0.635

207

Valerie Li

0.631

208

Meddy Ma

0.631

209

Aidan Lishner

0.629

210

Siddharth Vedam

0.625

211

Jason Huang

0.623

212

Navid Sheybani

0.619

213

Luke Rascoff

0.616

214

Christopher Bezemek

0.614

215

Andrew Xu

0.613

216

Justin Ding

0.613

217

Chloe Swidler

0.609

218

Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

0.608

219

Cyris Lim

0.606

220

Austen Richardson

0.605

221

Jad Vicente

0.604

222

Mason Csantaveri

0.604

223

Hayul (Ellie) Kim

0.603

224

Hannah Ying

0.599

225

Jacob Skolnick

0.599

226

Renee Ding

0.597

227

Ella Min

0.595

228

Anshul Sharma

0.595

229

Yihe Chen

0.591

230

Elijah Cruz

0.588

231

Leah Fischer

0.586

232

Drew Benthein

0.584

233

Aarav Mahendru

0.574

234

Saish Swamidurai

0.573

235

Joyce Xiao

0.572

236

Reanna Mohler

0.567

237

Gabriela Adler

0.566

238

Amy Jia

0.556

239

Lillian Yang

0.556

240

Jackson Dirks

0.551

241

Isaiah Muniz

0.549

242

Nicholas Fedorov

0.544

243

Devan Patel

0.541

244

Anya Lee

0.536

245

Sarah Cruser

0.532

247

Evelyne Gradincic

0.525

248

Chance Hudson

0.523

249

Lillian Curtis

0.519

250

Harly Liu

0.517

251

Eric Xing

0.515

252

Andrew Li

0.515

253

Yiyi Sun

0.514

254

Ali Naseem

0.514

255

Cooper Brody

0.511

256

Toby Hou

0.507

257

Aiden Wang

0.505

258

Mia Fleming

0.498

259

Shahzeb Qurashi

0.497

260

Margalit Salkin

0.497

261

Daniel Park

0.494

262

Jaylen Hilario-Peralta

0.492

263

Priya Aggarwal

0.486

264

Joshua Burriola

0.481

265

Naveen Somani

0.475

266

Thatcher Hartman

0.472

267

Zaid Rashid

0.463

268

William Harrison

0.460

269

Luke Schooler

0.455

270

Eli Seidner

0.453

271

Rachel Stein

0.438

272

Shona Kumar

0.428

273

Clayton Berardi

0.428

274

Bowie Lee

0.422

275

Jessica Guo

0.417

276

Aarav Pulsani

0.417

277

Autumn Coovert

0.414

278

Christina Brown

0.412

279

David Adelowo

0.411

280

Lavi Avigad

0.410

281

Ishaan Dhillon-Patel

0.410

282

Cian Moss

0.409

283

Alexis Qian

0.409

284

David Xu

0.409

285

Briana Song

0.404

286

Atharv Gandhi

0.404

287

Kaneeka Chakraborty

0.402

288

Alisha Kim

0.401

290

Stanley Huang

0.398

291

Khushee Totla

0.397

292

Akshaj Nandigam

0.397

293

Jacob Quililan

0.396

294

Gabriel Whangbo-Olvera

0.396

295

Vincent Wang

0.394

296

Andrea Wong

0.394

297

William McLain

0.393

298

Francesca Moreno

0.393

299

Kayla Owusu

0.390

301

Ethan Dumper

0.384

302

Liam Lee

0.379

303

Andrew Kommu

0.378

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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