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

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