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:  

January 14, 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

26

Vikrant Vadathavoor

2.097

27

Liam McDonald

2.091

28

Patrick Liu

2.077

29

Levin Ma

2.044

30

Ethan Yang

2.027

32

Shiwen Huang

2.000

33

Michael Ahn

1.976

34

Andy Mezgravis-Miani

1.974

36

August Sone

1.924

37

Ayan Mahajan

1.878

38

William Li

1.861

39

Dylan Millimet

1.844

40

Kyson Bloomingdale

1.839

41

Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

1.789

42

Vivek Thankavel

1.785

44

Chance Hudson

1.746

45

Veronica Zhang

1.731

46

Flynn Williams

1.724

47

Michael Reola

1.712

48

Lilly Stobo

1.703

49

Ezra Segal

1.699

50

Faisal Hamzeh

1.689

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

3.575

2

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

3.158

3

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

3.102

4

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

3.024

5

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.953

6

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.919

7

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.872

8

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.715

9

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

10

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.598

11

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.559

12

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.542

13

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

2.523

14

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.485

15

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

2.368

16

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.341

17

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.297

18

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

19

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

2.166

20

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.156

21

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

22

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

2.125

23

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.109

24

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

2.094

25

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

2.076