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

226

Krish Patel & Brian Sun

0.609

227

Niel Peddibhotla & Swapneil Bose

0.607

228

Vienna Valazzi & Ophelia Scurlock

0.607

229

Aidan Lee & Ian Lee

0.605

230

Reuben Mackler & Nathan Brawner

0.599

231

Zaid Anwar & Nolan Samuels

0.599

232

Smriti Shankar & Sowmiya Deventhira-Raja

0.597

233

JayJay Deng & Vishaka Padmanabhan

0.594

234

Matthew Nguyen & Akhil Damaraju

0.590

235

Vikram Partha & Alice Nguyen

0.586

236

Sharat Sakamuri & Daniel Li

0.578

237

Chloe Deng & Iris Chisholm

0.578

238

Erina Li & Jessica Wang

0.577

239

Makayla Chang & Evan Huang

0.576

240

Wenxuan Zhong & Lawrence Kuo

0.576

241

Vivaan Rawal & Kei Vo

0.573

242

Kedaar Garg & Tommy Hughes

0.560

243

lillian walker & Tania Mulay

0.559

244

Iris Ai & Nandini Bhatt

0.557

245

Anisha Bobra & Alice Tardieu

0.557

246

Sushen Baruri & Malaika Hollis

0.553

247

Connor Chun & Varun Bazaz

0.552

248

Kiyan Raisinghani & Anthony Yang

0.546

249

Max Lim & Jadyn Kennedy

0.543

250

Jayden Padwalkar & Alyssa Chen

0.540