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

126

Ronit Parikh & Tanmay Jyothis

1.095

127

Zaviyar Mujeeb & Taedus Nguyen

1.090

128

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

1.088

129

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

1.078

130

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

1.067

131

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

1.065

132

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

1.063

133

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

1.055

134

Wyatt Greenberg & Brayden Zhao

1.052

135

Kana Yee & Uraan Choudhury

1.049

136

Tharoon Eswar & Rayaan Meghani

1.045

137

Ethan Chen & Aaron Pinto

1.042

138

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

1.030

139

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

1.014

140

Rishaan Reddy & Zaviyar Mujeeb

1.012

141

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

1.006

142

Abhi Ashwath & Sohan Bhakta

1.004

143

Eleri Davies & Iris Liang

1.003

144

Jessie Zhou & Anthony Hur

0.993

145

Laura Cho & Ved Kusurkar

0.977

146

Brandon Sweet & Arjun Vora

0.974

147

Abhay Harika & Lillian Liang

0.966

148

Cady Wu & Rishi Ramaswamy

0.961

149

Christopher Lin & Yhali Matot

0.961

150

Natalie Milik & Arya Seth

0.958