Chinese Competitive Debating - Best Debater: leaderboard
Metric: Best-debater accuracy (%; the model distributes nine best-debater votes among the match's debaters from the full transcript; correct when its top debater is among those with the most judge votes; 148 competitive Chinese-language debate matches (4v4 and 2v2 formats), each adjudicated by three professional judges under a shared rubric; zero-shot on manually verified transcripts with fixed prompts; random choice 18.3). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2029. 9 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.6 Sol (Medium) | 56.8 |
| 2 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | 55.4 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 5 (Medium) | 52 |
| 4 | DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning) | 43.9 |
| 5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | 43.2 |
| 6 | GPT-5.6 Luna (Medium) | 43.2 |
| 7 | Claude Sonnet 5 (Medium) | 41.9 |
| 8 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Medium) | 34.5 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=chinese-competitive-debating-best-debater · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-26.