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

401

Alexis Qian

0.191

402

Ayush Gupta

0.191

403

Shimaz Hoque

0.190

404

LJ Faustin

0.189

405

Kanya Annamalai

0.188

406

Noah Peck

0.186

407

Isabelle Raymer

0.186

408

Tiffany Au

0.184

409

Renee Ding

0.183

410

Chloe Kang

0.183

411

Neharika Vijayabhaskar

0.182

412

Guhan Nagarajan

0.182

413

Madelyn Hyde

0.182

414

Arnav Dham

0.180

415

Feliciano Serrano

0.179

416

Yulong Gong

0.179

417

Enoch Shao

0.178

418

Yiyi Sun

0.178

419

Aanya Solanki

0.177

420

Charlie Pan

0.175

421

Ranbeer Arora

0.175

422

Vivaan Shahani

0.175

423

NagaVikhyath Malineni

0.172

424

prisha parimal

0.172

425

Clara Merchan

0.171

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

26

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

2.125

27

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

2.107

28

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

2.094

29

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

2.076

30

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.071

31

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.063

32

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.032

33

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

2.003

34

Kai Pehkonen & Benjamin Grabel

1.984

35

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

36

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

1.972

37

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

1.938

38

Emily Park & Michael Ji

1.922

39

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

1.920

40

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918

41

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

1.912

42

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

1.891

43

Gary Ayala & Farhan Khan

1.884

44

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

1.854

45

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

1.838

46

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

1.834

47

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

1.823

48

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

1.812

49

Atharv Gabada & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.808

50

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

1.780