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

351

Christina Brown

0.247

352

Jonah Kim

0.245

353

Natalie Chen

0.244

354

Esther Goldman

0.239

355

Nicholas Fedorov

0.238

356

Amy Jia

0.237

357

Sami Haddadin

0.237

358

Sanjith Tammana

0.235

359

Sage Stanley

0.234

360

Audrey Fan

0.229

361

Joy Wei

0.228

362

Jackson Willis

0.227

363

Camille Johns

0.226

364

Max Feinsten

0.225

365

James Gong

0.225

367

Lavanya Dixit

0.223

368

Diya Yadav

0.221

369

Tiffany Gao

0.221

370

Aarini Chadha

0.217

371

Chase Richmond

0.216

372

Sam Elichman

0.215

373

Anna Dong

0.214

374

Gabe Koh

0.213

375

Olivia Lu

0.213

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

3.575

2

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

3.158

3

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

3.102

4

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

3.061

5

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.953

6

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.919

7

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.894

8

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.872

9

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.715

10

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

11

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.598

12

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

2.523

13

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.486

14

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

2.425

15

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.389

16

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

2.379

17

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.341

18

Alexandra Kosloff & Jared Bart

2.340

19

Aarav Jamdar & James Yu

2.302

20

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

2.274

21

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

22

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.268

23

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

2.163

24

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.154

25

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

2.144