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

151

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

0.953

152

Meher Kulkarni & Jingxi (Lily) Zhang

0.929

153

Alex Cai & Sophie Zhou

0.928

154

Cecilia Croft & Chloe Comisarow

0.922

155

Vishnu Kummariguntla & Milan Thacker

0.919

156

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.913

157

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.913

158

Leo Fan & Daven Kella

0.897

159

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.893

160

Manan Gupta & Vishwa Vijay

0.890

161

Isabel Chang & Arya Seth

0.886

162

Ishani Aluguvelli & Manvi Kallavi

0.885

163

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.884

164

Wentao He & Emily Wang

0.883

165

Adi Subramanian & Lefan Wang

0.871

166

Aarav Kulshrestha & Eric Ye

0.870

167

Gia Jhaveri & Amanda Lee

0.870

168

Rishi Shah & Ethan Zhang

0.869

169

Colin Donovan & Preston Kyle

0.863

170

Scott Sterenberg & Angela Grant

0.863

171

Emmy Mason & Beau McDowell

0.853

172

Kamran Paksima & Kevin Cheng

0.848

173

Eli Chen & Rahul Rani

0.845

174

Ryan Gell & Diego Gonzalez

0.837

175

Lily Xia & Carrie Li

0.831