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

101

Rinesh Sunthar & Vijay Nagarajan

1.234

102

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

1.229

103

Aari Sabnani & Leo Hao

1.228

104

Benjamin Buchalter & Luka Makino Siller

1.217

105

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

1.216

106

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

1.211

107

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

1.208

108

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

1.205

109

Ian Xu & Tam Bao Tran

1.205

110

Simona Wang & Benjamin Xiao

1.203

111

Ethan Wang & Jake Paltrowitz

1.199

112

Gavin Zhao & Hoiyuen (Kevin) Chen

1.186

113

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

1.186

114

Emily Appelbaum & Eleanor Moy

1.178

115

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

1.169

116

Victor Lock & Andrew Scheufele

1.161

117

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

1.154

118

Ryan Wu & Kellen Wang

1.148

119

Bella Jackson & Katherine Wu

1.143

120

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

1.127

121

Amanda Zhong & Stephanie Yan

1.125

122

Vismay Avadhani & Samyak Duggirala

1.115

123

Keerat Virdi & Rohan Deep

1.114

124

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

1.105

125

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

1.098