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

176

Hunter Patel & Sean Au-Yeung

0.827

177

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.820

178

Lucas Shang & Ethan Ebbin

0.812

179

Suna Sosseh & Rihaan Vora

0.808

180

Avinash Gajjar & Vishnu Vasudeva

0.807

181

Akshat Singh & Ankith Gundimeda

0.801

182

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.792

183

Anishka Kallepalli & Anoushka Rajeshkumar

0.782

184

Rishi Golla & Shayaan Farooqi

0.775

185

Saanvika Gudala & Isabel Xiong

0.772

186

Chloe Chung & Alexander Chen

0.768

187

Raj Awasthi & Rishik Shenolikar

0.760

188

Matthew Sadowski & Baker Brodlieb

0.755

189

Collin Barbat & Martin Juncaj

0.754

190

Alex Masella & Isabelle Chiang

0.748

191

Sandhya Shankar & Gargi Garg

0.744

192

Omar Dahabra & Ryon Jemail

0.732

193

Ryan Tung & Blair Shao

0.729

194

Vyas Vishnukumar & Suhas Chelluri

0.728

195

Abigail Chung & Rhea Tyagi

0.726

196

Ryon Jemail & Jason Cohen

0.724

197

Ellis Brown & Sofia Telio

0.715

198

Callaway Weeks & Grant Wiessner

0.707

199

Aarya Venkat & Aneesh Velicheti

0.704

200

Henry Feldman & RA(c)my Picciano

0.703