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

76

Dylan Carey

1.385

77

Taro Porschke

1.376

78

Neel Aparanji

1.371

79

Jaylen Hilario-Peralta

1.359

80

Thatcher Hartman

1.350

81

Vihaan Patel

1.340

82

Nicolette Huff

1.332

83

Roger Zhen

1.328

84

Lucia Sanchez Gagerman

1.328

85

Laine Yates

1.305

86

Allison Liu

1.282

87

Sophia Moreno

1.271

88

Samuel Rubinstein

1.243

89

Emanuel Sasson

1.231

90

Owen Sack

1.225

91

Chloe Ren

1.216

92

Sophia Parang

1.201

93

Stanley Liu

1.194

94

Cameron Simmons

1.165

95

Sreethan Karna

1.164

96

Eric Xing

1.163

97

Emma Sobel

1.138

98

Julia Thomas

1.133

99

Adeena Naeem

1.129

100

Owen Gao

1.122

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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

3.061

5

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.953

6

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.919

7

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.894

8

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.872

9

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.715

10

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

11

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.598

12

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

2.523

13

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.486

14

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

2.425

15

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.389

16

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

2.379

17

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.341

18

Alexandra Kosloff & Jared Bart

2.340

19

Aarav Jamdar & James Yu

2.302

20

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

2.274

21

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

22

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.268

23

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

2.163

24

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.154

25

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

2.144