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

26

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

2.125

27

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

2.107

28

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

2.094

29

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

2.076

30

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.071

31

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.063

32

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.032

33

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

2.003

34

Kai Pehkonen & Benjamin Grabel

1.984

35

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

36

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

1.972

37

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

1.938

38

Emily Park & Michael Ji

1.922

39

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

1.920

40

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918

41

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

1.912

42

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

1.891

43

Gary Ayala & Farhan Khan

1.884

44

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

1.854

45

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

1.838

46

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

1.834

47

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

1.823

48

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

1.812

49

Atharv Gabada & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.808

50

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

1.780