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

476

Dev Patel & Jasper Parsons

0.214

477

Ella Reddy & Arreyana Khaliq

0.214

478

Taiwen Feng & William Zhou

0.213

479

Anya Telang & Ishita Harish

0.212

480

Crystal Chen & Jessica Ma

0.212

481

Emily Liu & Aditi Pinnenti

0.212

482

Maya Kapoor & Retaj Yassir Eltigani

0.211

483

Zoe Yeh & Jacqueline Urena-Bernabel

0.210

484

Sarayu Pasumarthi & Adya Balakrishnan

0.206

485

Nawid Samim & Tanjot Kaur

0.206

486

Ronav Shah & Adi Arora

0.204

487

Hyunji Jeong & Dhruv Mohan

0.204

488

Martin Huang & Leon Yang

0.203

489

Liam Marassa & Natalie Chou

0.203

490

Andy Allocco & Nate Gotte

0.202

491

Soujanya Sethuraman & Yash Bhutoria

0.202

492

Clementine Birnbaum & Francis Harmon

0.202

493

Maximilian Urban & Amit Kakumanu

0.201

494

Adam Tsui & Ian Schulz

0.201

495

Neel Gupta & Connor Li

0.201

496

William Mastella & Nicholas Powell

0.200

497

Aashna Bhakkad & Zayd Mahmud

0.200

498

Jamie Yang & Jack Zhang

0.200

499

Claire Shim & Ryley Chen

0.198

500

Zahin Kapoor & Milan Kapasi

0.198