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

76

Shreyas Dharani & Siddharth Tummala

1.513

77

Zoya Jamal & Mayank Kiran

1.512

78

Simran Vohra & Emma Shim

1.509

79

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

1.505

80

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

1.475

81

Oliver Beamer & Amrita Dhillon

1.469

82

Baylen Shi & Roha Rupareliya

1.465

83

Shankaran Srivatsa & Vivaan Beri

1.465

84

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

1.396

85

Maddie Lee & Aditya Gupta

1.388

86

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

1.375

87

Lucy Borunda & Isabella Musolino

1.372

88

Tristan Mankovsky & William Shanmugam

1.369

89

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

1.354

90

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

1.332

91

Noah Subhash & Jay Tamirisa

1.312

92

Timothy Kirichenko & Nathan Hadi

1.310

93

Nakul Banka & Ayush Iyengar

1.302

94

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

1.282

95

Tavishi Dani & Thara Kadalayil

1.277

96

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

1.274

97

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

1.263

98

Courtney Otieno & Clara Tran

1.255

99

Benji Wojin & Harry McLaughlin

1.240

100

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

1.237