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

101

Rinesh Sunthar & Vijay Nagarajan

1.234

102

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

1.229

103

Aari Sabnani & Leo Hao

1.228

104

Benjamin Buchalter & Luka Makino Siller

1.217

105

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

1.216

106

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

1.211

107

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

1.208

108

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

1.205

109

Ian Xu & Tam Bao Tran

1.205

110

Simona Wang & Benjamin Xiao

1.203

111

Ethan Wang & Jake Paltrowitz

1.199

112

Gavin Zhao & Hoiyuen (Kevin) Chen

1.186

113

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

1.186

114

Emily Appelbaum & Eleanor Moy

1.178

115

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

1.169

116

Victor Lock & Andrew Scheufele

1.161

117

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

1.154

118

Ryan Wu & Kellen Wang

1.148

119

Bella Jackson & Katherine Wu

1.143

120

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

1.127

121

Amanda Zhong & Stephanie Yan

1.125

122

Vismay Avadhani & Samyak Duggirala

1.115

123

Keerat Virdi & Rohan Deep

1.114

124

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

1.105

125

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

1.098