Debate Land Public Forum & Lincoln Douglas Rankings

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:  

February 03, 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

Debaters

OTR

301

Saraphina Zhao

0.331

302

Santiago Jimenez

0.328

303

Manasvini Chava

0.325

305

Gia Clarke

0.325

306

Eric Xiong

0.322

307

Anika Goyal

0.319

308

Leyi Han

0.319

309

Siyona Khera

0.318

310

Judah Carpenter

0.315

311

Isaac Forstot

0.314

312

Liam Lee

0.312

313

Rohan Goyal

0.311

314

Srihan Yerram

0.309

315

Siddharth Lagisetty

0.307

316

Justin Tobias

0.306

317

Caleb Park

0.301

318

Sage Bonotto

0.301

319

Solomon Schwartzman

0.300

321

Rachel Stein

0.296

322

Ansh Gandhi

0.295

323

Sunay Sharma

0.294

324

Jaganesh Ramkrishnan

0.294

325

Eesha Gunukula

0.293

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

476

Dev Patel & Jasper Parsons

0.214

477

Ella Reddy & Arreyana Khaliq

0.214

478

Taiwen Feng & William Zhou

0.213

479

Anya Telang & Ishita Harish

0.212

480

Crystal Chen & Jessica Ma

0.212

481

Emily Liu & Aditi Pinnenti

0.212

482

Maya Kapoor & Retaj Yassir Eltigani

0.211

483

Zoe Yeh & Jacqueline Urena-Bernabel

0.210

484

Sarayu Pasumarthi & Adya Balakrishnan

0.206

485

Nawid Samim & Tanjot Kaur

0.206

486

Ronav Shah & Adi Arora

0.204

487

Hyunji Jeong & Dhruv Mohan

0.204

488

Martin Huang & Leon Yang

0.203

489

Liam Marassa & Natalie Chou

0.203

490

Andy Allocco & Nate Gotte

0.202

491

Soujanya Sethuraman & Yash Bhutoria

0.202

492

Clementine Birnbaum & Francis Harmon

0.202

493

Maximilian Urban & Amit Kakumanu

0.201

494

Adam Tsui & Ian Schulz

0.201

495

Neel Gupta & Connor Li

0.201

496

William Mastella & Nicholas Powell

0.200

497

Aashna Bhakkad & Zayd Mahmud

0.200

498

Jamie Yang & Jack Zhang

0.200

499

Claire Shim & Ryley Chen

0.198

500

Zahin Kapoor & Milan Kapasi

0.198