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

51

Veronica Zhang

1.731

52

Faisal Hamzeh

1.689

53

Micah Byron-Smarra

1.681

55

Himnish Koul

1.670

56

Ishaan Dhillon-Patel

1.667

57

Lilly Stobo

1.624

58

Lili Sella

1.620

59

Chris Correia

1.607

61

Riley Powell

1.591

62

Tilak Datta Iyer

1.560

63

Atticus Moss

1.559

64

Chance Hudson

1.554

65

Kylin Wu

1.553

66

Ruby Simon

1.541

67

Kaden Buckner

1.522

68

Meera Shah

1.508

69

Oliver Li

1.500

70

Darina Rudkovskaia

1.491

71

Ryan Chang

1.484

72

Taejun Kim

1.457

73

Landon Stull

1.413

74

Omar Obeidat

1.409

75

Tara Prem

1.404

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

426

Terry Park & Jayden Tsai

0.254

427

Antoine Komlan & Jamie Berntson

0.254

428

Aari Sabnani & Amrita Dhillon

0.254

429

Wayne Lu & Chaith Mittal

0.254

430

Avital Dumontet & Rae Belanoff

0.253

431

Amber Wong & Yashvi Jaladi

0.252

432

Savir Venkatraman & Parthibh Nair

0.251

433

Edward Napoli & Clayton Prisament

0.250

434

Luke Liu & Sreenidh Durisheti

0.249

435

Anushree Sapkal & Archana Saxena

0.248

436

Jasmeet Singh & Hrishi Patel

0.248

437

Caleb Kurlantzick & Kofi Hair-Ralston

0.248

438

Shreyansh Vatsa & Arjun Senani

0.247

439

Albert Wu & Jonah Park

0.245

440

Elizabeth Haile & Gautham Ramalingam

0.243

441

Nick Torres & Tyler Marcus

0.243

442

Christina Huang & Jennifer Peng

0.242

443

Akash Thomas & Zahin Kapoor

0.239

444

William Benish & Yonatan Bernstein

0.239

445

Owen Falk & Conor Boscardin

0.239

446

Pranay Kalra & Tyler MacColl

0.238

447

Saisha Pal & Kei Vo

0.236

448

Aakash Nukala & Sricharan Pullela

0.236

449

Divyansh Gupta & Benjamin Arbit

0.236

450

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.235