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

401

reyansh Julakanti & Tyler Huynh

0.278

402

Grace Yan & Mei Kumaran

0.278

403

Grant Gargas & Siddharth Kate

0.277

404

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

0.275

405

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

0.275

406

Jun Jang & Hugh Wilson

0.275

407

Jenna He & Riya Sreeram

0.273

408

Michael Qin & Aayush Dinker

0.270

409

Lucas Cao & Nikhil Bawa

0.270

410

Ian Chang & Wilson Yao

0.269

411

Aidan Hosler & Remy Sardar

0.268

412

Lana Dandekar & Rhea Iyengar

0.267

413

Leo Leger & Daniel Naor

0.266

414

Dari Rozinsky & Justin Peng

0.265

415

Ayush Dave & Julian Vignes

0.265

416

Edwin Gelman & Ethan Zheng

0.265

417

Saira Julka & Fiona Liu

0.264

418

Ved Singh & Melania Hoshovsky

0.264

419

Jiayang Chen & Aditya Lavi

0.264

420

Karthik Uppalapati & Leana Paradkar

0.263

421

Daniel Zhang & Timothy Volkov

0.261

422

Kennedy Cauwels & Jakob Hofer

0.259

423

Ethan Minton & Prthvi Pradeep

0.257

424

Carolina Pineda & Saphara Kelegama

0.256

425

Eva Treinkman & Hannah Lowell

0.256