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

201

Hans Jhamb & Adhhrith Nagrath

0.703

202

Mitali Alurkar & Luke Santorsiero

0.694

203

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

0.689

204

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.688

205

Larry Xie & Chaitanya Sana

0.688

206

Sharzeh Jafferali & Alejandro Manso

0.685

207

Amartya Roy & Shaurya Kasi

0.678

208

Ben Rask & Connor Chun

0.676

209

Samay Nistala & Vedant Tripathi

0.676

210

Aahana Gupta & Ibrahim Abudagga

0.670

211

Graham Turk & Ike Turk

0.669

212

Ian Ngo & Julian Carlile

0.667

213

Andrew Wells & Elsie Kosobud

0.664

214

Sophia Xiong & Diya Bhootra

0.664

215

Kayla Kelberg-Gross & Eliana Kelberg-Gross

0.663

216

Saanvi Sudhakar & Aaditya Mishra

0.648

217

Pavanaj Gupta & Jocelyn Wu

0.643

218

Daren Hu & Felix Shaitelman

0.643

219

Ezra McCullers & Asa Hein-Martin

0.641

220

Leo Cheng & Ayub Ahmed

0.636

221

Liam Charest & Dylan O'Sullivan

0.634

222

Austin She & Iniyan Gokulkumar

0.630

223

Naitik Narang & Anya Hira

0.629

224

Saashiv Gupta & Sahi Popuri

0.620

225

Denis Biju & Neel Sisodiya

0.615