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

101

Sanjeev Arora

1.111

102

Ryan Lin

1.107

103

Cathryn Wu

1.105

104

Lucas Chritah

1.093

105

Cameron Buhl

1.088

106

Rory Baskin

1.076

107

Upton Ta-Beadle

1.070

109

Anya Pathak

1.067

111

Joyce Xiao

1.043

112

Gabriel Whangbo-Olvera

1.038

113

Pranav Narra

1.036

114

Diya Venkataragavan

1.023

115

Michelle Lee

1.022

116

Shrihan Thangam

1.022

117

Amandeep Manda

1.017

118

Cooper Halpern

1.013

119

Jeffery Wei

1.009

120

Paul Buermann

1.007

121

Vanessa Xu

1.006

122

Alina Diaz

1.005

123

Navid Sheybani

1.002

124

Sami Shapiro

0.993

125

Vincent Wang

0.978

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

301

Jake Caravello & Ryan Amin

0.416

302

Mateo Pruneda Hernandez & John Davis

0.415

303

James Davis & Soham Srinivas

0.414

304

Thanish Lankella & Henry Riley

0.413

305

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.410

306

Mackenzie Larson & Anika Narayanan

0.410

307

Sophie Cai & Lindsay Coady

0.407

308

Suhayb Zahid & Kevin Zhang

0.405

309

Alex Cai & Emily Mei

0.403

310

Aanya Mohta & Jiseung Jung

0.398

311

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397

312

Mae Brodsky & Nelson Quinonez

0.394

313

Tony Liu & Akash Meka

0.393

314

Annabel Greenberg & Ziyad Mattoo

0.388

315

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

0.387

316

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.387

317

Allyson Lingo & Christopher Lin

0.385

318

Larkin Murray & Sienna Whitaker

0.383

319

Xuanyu Dong & Leon Yang

0.383

320

Vaibhav Kolli & Ryan Pius

0.382

321

Andrew Zhao & Aadi Patel

0.380

322

Zidaan Barodawala & Adhiyan Karthikeyan

0.378

323

Rohin Saharoy & Raghav Shrivastava

0.377

324

Emma Song & Sophie Lu

0.375

325

Jiayue Zou & Noelle Kim

0.374