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

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