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

401

reyansh Julakanti & Tyler Huynh

0.278

402

Grace Yan & Mei Kumaran

0.278

403

Grant Gargas & Siddharth Kate

0.277

404

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

0.275

405

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

0.275

406

Jun Jang & Hugh Wilson

0.275

407

Jenna He & Riya Sreeram

0.273

408

Michael Qin & Aayush Dinker

0.270

409

Lucas Cao & Nikhil Bawa

0.270

410

Ian Chang & Wilson Yao

0.269

411

Aidan Hosler & Remy Sardar

0.268

412

Lana Dandekar & Rhea Iyengar

0.267

413

Leo Leger & Daniel Naor

0.266

414

Dari Rozinsky & Justin Peng

0.265

415

Ayush Dave & Julian Vignes

0.265

416

Edwin Gelman & Ethan Zheng

0.265

417

Saira Julka & Fiona Liu

0.264

418

Ved Singh & Melania Hoshovsky

0.264

419

Jiayang Chen & Aditya Lavi

0.264

420

Karthik Uppalapati & Leana Paradkar

0.263

421

Daniel Zhang & Timothy Volkov

0.261

422

Kennedy Cauwels & Jakob Hofer

0.259

423

Ethan Minton & Prthvi Pradeep

0.257

424

Carolina Pineda & Saphara Kelegama

0.256

425

Eva Treinkman & Hannah Lowell

0.256