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

351

Arianna Hanes & Cybele Pirok

0.336

352

Andrew Moszuti & Alessandro Cupido Carlorosi

0.335

353

Milan Thacker & Srivishnu Kummariguntla

0.334

354

Camila Dunn & Taedus Nguyen

0.334

355

Keller Wagemann & Kidus Hiruy

0.334

356

Avi Saraf & Koby Shnekendorf

0.331

357

Samuel Tae & Derek Meng

0.331

358

Jun Jang & Lillian Schornhorst

0.330

359

Vishesh Sood & Nirvi Baddela

0.329

360

Zach Gao & Mick Ziv Petreanu

0.329

361

Tristan Gadin & Alex Shatby

0.325

362

Rahul Iyengar & Blake Miller

0.323

363

Timothy Kirichenko & Keshav Harpavat

0.320

364

Conor Boscardin & Tilden Rees

0.320

365

Vihaan Patel & Aadi Loonawat

0.319

366

Harrison Anderson & William Keller

0.316

367

Ayush Pathuri & Saharsh Maram

0.311

368

William Frank & Luke Kosner

0.309

369

Atharv Gabada & Riddhish Saravanan

0.308

370

Rosie Liu & Abby Cai

0.308

371

Bhargav Malyala & Akshayan Arasan

0.308

372

Charan Pyloore & Anya Hira

0.308

373

Christine Zhong & Novella Vittorio

0.308

374

Victor Kang & Rita Lin

0.307

375

Alena Alexeeva & Jaden Hoang

0.307