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

126

Ronit Parikh & Tanmay Jyothis

1.095

127

Zaviyar Mujeeb & Taedus Nguyen

1.090

128

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

1.088

129

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

1.078

130

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

1.067

131

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

1.065

132

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

1.063

133

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

1.055

134

Wyatt Greenberg & Brayden Zhao

1.052

135

Kana Yee & Uraan Choudhury

1.049

136

Tharoon Eswar & Rayaan Meghani

1.045

137

Ethan Chen & Aaron Pinto

1.042

138

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

1.030

139

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

1.014

140

Rishaan Reddy & Zaviyar Mujeeb

1.012

141

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

1.006

142

Abhi Ashwath & Sohan Bhakta

1.004

143

Eleri Davies & Iris Liang

1.003

144

Jessie Zhou & Anthony Hur

0.993

145

Laura Cho & Ved Kusurkar

0.977

146

Brandon Sweet & Arjun Vora

0.974

147

Abhay Harika & Lillian Liang

0.966

148

Cady Wu & Rishi Ramaswamy

0.961

149

Christopher Lin & Yhali Matot

0.961

150

Natalie Milik & Arya Seth

0.958