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

476

Dev Patel & Jasper Parsons

0.214

477

Ella Reddy & Arreyana Khaliq

0.214

478

Taiwen Feng & William Zhou

0.213

479

Anya Telang & Ishita Harish

0.212

480

Crystal Chen & Jessica Ma

0.212

481

Emily Liu & Aditi Pinnenti

0.212

482

Maya Kapoor & Retaj Yassir Eltigani

0.211

483

Zoe Yeh & Jacqueline Urena-Bernabel

0.210

484

Sarayu Pasumarthi & Adya Balakrishnan

0.206

485

Nawid Samim & Tanjot Kaur

0.206

486

Ronav Shah & Adi Arora

0.204

487

Hyunji Jeong & Dhruv Mohan

0.204

488

Martin Huang & Leon Yang

0.203

489

Liam Marassa & Natalie Chou

0.203

490

Andy Allocco & Nate Gotte

0.202

491

Soujanya Sethuraman & Yash Bhutoria

0.202

492

Clementine Birnbaum & Francis Harmon

0.202

493

Maximilian Urban & Amit Kakumanu

0.201

494

Adam Tsui & Ian Schulz

0.201

495

Neel Gupta & Connor Li

0.201

496

William Mastella & Nicholas Powell

0.200

497

Aashna Bhakkad & Zayd Mahmud

0.200

498

Jamie Yang & Jack Zhang

0.200

499

Claire Shim & Ryley Chen

0.198

500

Zahin Kapoor & Milan Kapasi

0.198