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

376

Abby Chao & Alexander Chen

0.306

377

Alex Somers & Ethan Hill

0.304

378

Mithil Gontla & Ishaan Gokaraju

0.304

379

Sam Cedar & Nico Cofino

0.304

380

Zidaan Barodawala & Iris Ai

0.302

381

Paulina Geffen & Miranda Pierce

0.300

382

Charlotte Bruneau & Matthew Sosin

0.299

383

Justina Hoshovsky & Shaun Wu

0.298

384

Melody Cheng & Cristina Alvarez

0.297

385

Joshua Zhao & Joseph Hu

0.293

386

Tilak Datta Iyer & Jacob Brace

0.291

387

Audrey Yang & Christian Lee

0.290

388

Shaurya Mishra & Kap Nedunoori

0.290

389

Teddy Rasmussen & David Abrams

0.289

390

Aarav Saini & Vivaan Sadare

0.289

391

Advait Wankhede & Gautham Ramalingam

0.288

392

Ben Rask & Richard Park

0.287

393

Vaibhav Muthuraman & Sai Balaji

0.286

394

Alonso Ramirez & Connor Spaans

0.283

395

Ryaan Siraj & Aayan Cheema

0.282

396

Conner Davidson & Fawwaz Mohammed

0.282

397

Avi sawhney & Jacob Brace

0.281

398

Benjamin Hunt & Carson Scott

0.281

399

Praneeth Reddy Annapureddy & Prisha Yelamanchili

0.280

400

Anshika Ravula & Divya Bhavanam

0.279