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

251

Alex Liao & Neel Karur-Parekh

0.536

252

Allison Yi & Hillary Jacques

0.535

253

Justina Hoshovsky & Hansh Dondapati

0.534

254

Andrew Kapp & Holden Leidl

0.533

255

Paarth Agrawal & Akshath Odugu

0.532

256

Julia Rastatter & Helena Negron

0.528

257

Nathaniel Dsilva & Sam Parsi

0.520

258

Vidushi Sinha & Matthew Xia

0.518

259

Athena Lin & Luna Lee

0.516

260

Rose Semmel & Una Cutrone

0.515

261

Sukruth Jangala & Shriish Sathish

0.504

262

Gabriel Oliveira & Kinaan Shraytah

0.501

263

Ruta Sirdeshmukh & Michelle Wang

0.500

264

Aarav Jamdar & Junseo Lee

0.496

265

Joshua Huang & Brendan Tauro

0.495

266

Aria Chintamaneni & Ananya Singh

0.492

267

Peishi Yu & Elizabeth Chung

0.489

268

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.489

269

Sarah Chen & Yujin Kim

0.487

271

Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

0.484

272

Adrienne Wang & Brendan Liu

0.484

273

Sophie O'Brien & Ruiyu Tang

0.478

274

Rheya Singh & Emily Zhang

0.477

275

Kingston Harrison & Sarah Teng

0.477