Debate Land Public Forum & Lincoln Douglas Rankings

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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:

March 8, 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

Debater

OTR

176

Sanjeev Arora

0.937

177

Rani Green

0.936

178

Felicity Zhang

0.934

179

Eric Xing

0.927

180

Debarghya Dhar

0.922

181

Winston Chou

0.919

182

John Joyce

0.917

183

Emilio Garza

0.916

184

Ash Yu

0.912

185

Isaiah Muniz

0.909

186

Grace Chen

0.907

187

Navid Sheybani

0.901

188

Bryan Fu

0.897

189

Nathaniel Watkins

0.889

190

Jamie Hao

0.888

191

Leah Fischer

0.887

192

Adeena Naeem

0.886

193

Oliver Li

0.885

194

Andy Mezgravis-Miani

0.880

195

Jaylen Hilario-Peralta

0.874

196

Noah Reardon

0.873

197

Elijah Cruz

0.859

198

Ali Naseem

0.858

199

Thatcher Hartman

0.857

200

Rishabh Handa

0.856

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

51

Ray Eggerts & Ana Sorrentino

2.056

52

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

2.039

53

Anushree Samsi & Armaan Sharma

2.022

54

Arvind Krishnan & Ethan Tauro

2.019

55

Aaron Tian & Isabel Tang

1.993

56

Aarav Motivala & Sahaj Bhandari

1.987

57

Dev Sharma & Ayan Bakshi

1.986

58

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.975

59

Isabel Vilensky & Aaryan Kumar

1.971

60

Maeve Welch & Salman Memon

1.919

61

Andres Mendoza Casas & Luis Carvajal Picott

1.908

62

Selma Bahrani & Daniel Wu

1.907

63

Melinda Synn & Justin Wang

1.905

64

Bela Sehgal & Dessie Yang

1.886

65

Feifan Liu & Mingyi Chen

1.886

66

Alex Fagell & Hani Garside

1.865

67

Jason Zhao & Mac Stratton

1.861

68

Zayn Charania & Aaron Pinto

1.854

69

Eddie El-Fadil & Yasha Durnev

1.854

70

Kira Bhatia & Lexie Malik

1.847

71

David Lu & Feliks Lin

1.835

72

Ella Yu & Leo Hao

1.830

73

Natalie Berman & Nicholas Willett

1.821

74

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

1.817

75

Jackson Hayward & Oliver Alferness

1.809

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