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

151

Aakash Mehta

0.831

152

Daniel Baek

0.826

153

Karenna Mehta

0.821

154

Gabrielle Mckenzie

0.821

155

Yifan Sheng

0.813

156

Colin Xiang

0.805

157

Mina Hu

0.803

158

Victor Kang

0.799

159

Alisha Kim

0.795

160

Christopher Cheng

0.785

161

David Nemoianu

0.777

162

Gauri Gupta

0.773

163

Ibraheem Mushtaq

0.773

164

Shiva Sambandam

0.771

165

Aarav Bollini

0.758

166

Albert Cai

0.753

167

Jad Vicente

0.753

168

Noah Reardon

0.751

169

Mason Sterling

0.744

170

James Young

0.742

171

Aanya Ujjval

0.742

172

Jasmine Shao

0.740

173

Claire Witalec

0.740

174

Olivia Amir

0.740

175

Selina Zhang

0.721

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

251

Alex Liao & Neel Karur-Parekh

0.536

252

Allison Yi & Hillary Jacques

0.535

253

Justina Hoshovsky & Hansh Dondapati

0.534

254

Andrew Kapp & Holden Leidl

0.533

255

Paarth Agrawal & Akshath Odugu

0.532

256

Julia Rastatter & Helena Negron

0.528

257

Nathaniel Dsilva & Sam Parsi

0.520

258

Vidushi Sinha & Matthew Xia

0.518

259

Athena Lin & Luna Lee

0.516

260

Rose Semmel & Una Cutrone

0.515

261

Sukruth Jangala & Shriish Sathish

0.504

262

Gabriel Oliveira & Kinaan Shraytah

0.501

263

Ruta Sirdeshmukh & Michelle Wang

0.500

264

Aarav Jamdar & Junseo Lee

0.496

265

Joshua Huang & Brendan Tauro

0.495

266

Aria Chintamaneni & Ananya Singh

0.492

267

Peishi Yu & Elizabeth Chung

0.489

268

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.489

269

Sarah Chen & Yujin Kim

0.487

271

Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

0.484

272

Adrienne Wang & Brendan Liu

0.484

273

Sophie O'Brien & Ruiyu Tang

0.478

274

Rheya Singh & Emily Zhang

0.477

275

Kingston Harrison & Sarah Teng

0.477