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

451

Rishi Pandhi & Baylen Shi

0.234

452

Rishabh Sankar & Viraaj Marathe

0.234

453

Afreen Jahingir & Riya Chawla

0.233

454

Owen Falk & Aari Sabnani

0.233

455

Ayana Baul & Aarna Parikh

0.233

456

Evan Guo & Luella Zhang

0.232

457

Olivia Yang & Maris Menenberg

0.232

458

William Long & Sisi Holden

0.227

459

Ved Kusurkar & Jun-hyeok Moon

0.226

460

Meghana Mali & Sahasra Muccala

0.224

461

Anisha Chandra & Natalie Berman

0.224

462

Anna Kuck & Madeline Hadar

0.223

463

Ethan Zhang & Claire Gao

0.222

464

Edison Xiong & Milan Kapasi

0.221

465

Chloe Zou & Eva Averin

0.221

466

Andrew Wu & Ethan Tauro

0.221

467

Jackson Zarro & Aditya Arora

0.220

468

Yuvika Rao & Claire Leo

0.220

469

Shravya Sethi & Diya Bidani

0.220

470

Ashwin Raghav & Abhigyan Mishra

0.220

471

Sophia Plastaras & Rowan Bastien

0.219

472

Rishya Vemireddy & Advaita Ayuluri

0.218

473

Carter Nesvold & Molly Brothers

0.217

474

Jake Caravello & Holden Leidl

0.216

475

Yewon Woo & Alexandria McGinness

0.215