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

101

Lionel Augustine & Leonardo Damato

1.387

102

Eli Chen & Rahul Rani

1.381

103

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

1.376

104

Mia Dalzell & Netta Miller

1.362

105

John Joyce & Ben Miyares

1.345

106

Audrey Browning & Luke Zimmer

1.341

107

Samuel Lauriello & Desmond Augustine

1.337

108

Rachel Sinaiko & Sofia Millerman

1.335

109

Grant Morishita & Teddy Choe

1.316

110

Louis Reich & Eden Hoover

1.315

111

Evelyn Tucker & Isabella Zhang

1.314

112

Grady Pazona & Paul Schneider

1.307

113

Joya Tendulkar & Iris Pang

1.305

114

Isabel Chang & Kingston Harrison

1.289

115

Finney Haire & Luke Holmes

1.280

116

Abhay Sankar & Atharva Makode

1.276

117

Ryan Kang & Tobin Wilson

1.274

118

Ingrid Alg & Sree Baruri

1.273

119

Sumith Murthy & Nathan Hadi

1.271

120

Parsa Hassanpour & Jessica Liao

1.269

121

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

1.266

122

Zain Kapoor & Advik Chandok

1.245

123

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

1.241

124

Esha Bindlish & Arianna Desai

1.240

125

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

1.236

126

Samanvita Kasibhatla & Anika Sud

1.235

127

Ezra McCullers & Jared Bart

1.232

128

Eleyn Xiong & Baylen Shi

1.231

129

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

1.214

130

Martin Huang & Jack Zhang

1.207

131

Shruthi Nagulapalli & Ariana Corbu

1.206

132

Christopher Lin & Yhali Matot

1.201

133

Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

1.196

134

Tharoon Eswar & Rayaan Meghani

1.196

135

Millen Wadhwa & Noah Wong

1.175

136

Ben Rask & Soumil Bhandari

1.164

137

Arthur Hu & Aiden Swartz

1.164

138

Anvay Sur & Suraj Nistala

1.159

139

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

1.156

140

Albert Wu & Jonah Park

1.155

141

Edward Napoli & Clayton Prisament

1.153

142

Aarushi Thatola & Anya Kaushik

1.144

143

Anshika Agrawal & Siri Ramineni

1.139

144

Bella Jackson & Andy Chen

1.120

145

Gillian Ho & Michael Ji

1.114

146

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

1.108

147

Ashwin Raghav & Abhigyan Mishra

1.107

148

Cruz Castillo & Ethan Wan

1.104

149

Neelay Shah & Shaan Mehta

1.096

150

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

1.096

151

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

1.094

152

Rushil Baindla & Felix Xu

1.092

153

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

1.089

154

Aaron Eagan & Jason Cohen

1.085

155

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

1.079

156

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

1.077

157

Feliks Lin & Andres Mendoza Casas

1.076

158

Varun Swarup & Ian Olenich

1.075

159

Ryan Tung & Edison Zheng

1.070

160

William Napoli & Phil Liew

1.064

161

Alexei Varah & Ruiyu Tang

1.064

162

Peter Hablinski & Winston Wu

1.060

163

Keerat Virdi & Angad Virdi

1.058

164

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

1.055

165

Ramsey Warner & Ariyanna Ghala

1.055

166

Saidhar Pinapati & Ritwik Gupta

1.052

167

Shreya Pawar & Jessica Kim

1.051

168

Jasmine Merrikh & Meredith Yount

1.045

169

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

1.040

170

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

1.036

171

Rina Li & Sherry Huang

1.026

172

Sukruth Jangala & Shriish Sathish

1.020

173

Kethan Neginhal & Preston Lieu

1.020

174

Shoumili Tarafder & Clara Stamm

1.014

175

Roha Rupareliya & Justin Wang

1.011

176

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

1.007

177

Thelonious Kurland & Leo Hao

1.004

178

Carlye Sanchez & Carter Nelson

1.003

179

Helen Mancini & Astrid Harrington

1.001

180

Anna Jhon & Charles Lu

0.993

181

Audrey Yang & Christian Lee

0.991

182

Grace Li & Katherine Xue

0.985

183

Naina Chopra & Andy Mei

0.969

184

Nathan Lee & Alyssa Chen

0.969

185

Arthur Monastyrsky & Shane Dell

0.965

186

Allen Liu & Gaurav Rao

0.961

187

Aahana Gupta & Evelyn Asay

0.960

188

Sameet Das & Atharv Mahajan

0.958

189

Nare Sheroyan & Emily Chamichyan

0.957

190

Izabella Yusupova & Fiore Chung

0.954

191

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

0.953

192

Noah Hirokawa & Luna Lee

0.952

193

Gurneel Batra & Shaurya Paul

0.949

194

Raj Trivedi & Ian Ngo

0.936

195

Ashton Paul & Gustavo Membreno

0.935

196

Ethan Mao & Paul Wang

0.933

197

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

0.933

198

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.928

199

Alexia Lara & Sofia Teifeld

0.922

200

Avital Dumontet & Alexandra Kosloff

0.917