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

276

Christopher Bezemek

0.614

277

Krithik Pondicherry

0.611

278

Christianna Thomas

0.607

279

Aidan Lishner

0.604

280

Evelyne Gradincic

0.604

281

Chloe Zhou

0.603

282

Meddy Ma

0.602

283

Lydia Aklilu

0.600

284

Hannah Ying

0.599

285

Mahima Sanghera

0.597

286

Andrew Xu

0.595

287

Josh Kleyner

0.593

288

Omar Obeidat

0.591

289

Lavanya Dixit

0.587

290

Justin Ding

0.584

291

Pyar Sangal

0.583

292

James Gong

0.579

293

Andrew Mao

0.563

294

Le Wang

0.561

295

Roger Zhen

0.557

296

Chris Correia

0.555

297

Hayul (Ellie) Kim

0.555

298

Izzie Chang

0.552

299

Shawn Lo

0.547

300

Devan Patel

0.541

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

251

Raj Trivedi & Ian Ngo

0.929

252

Megan Waters & Christianna Thomas

0.923

253

Ellis Brown & Sofia Telio

0.922

254

Ori Shi & Alex Wang

0.921

255

Madelyn Berkenhoff & Amanda Martin

0.917

256

Simona Wang & Benjamin Xiao

0.916

257

Joshua Zhou & Apollin Lu

0.913

258

Anna Jhon & Charles Lu

0.909

259

Zoya Jamal & Kei Vo

0.907

260

Ethan Zhang & Claire Gao

0.898

261

Calder Weiss & Dexter Theisen

0.896

262

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

0.894

263

Reese Glasser & Jessie Gross

0.893

264

Naina Chopra & Andy Mei

0.889

265

Sophie Lu & Saanvi Goyal

0.889

266

Bella Kim & Abigail Chang

0.887

267

Samyak Duggirala & Jishnu Nayak

0.885

268

Rose Semmel & Una Cutrone

0.880

270

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

0.874

271

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

0.874

272

Timmy Chen & Umair Paranjpye

0.869

273

Jennie Wang & Amy Zhang

0.864

274

Amanda Zhong & Stephanie Yan

0.860

275

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.855

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