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

26

Rowan MacLean

2.326

27

Ella Min

2.326

28

Abhinav Kasturi

2.268

29

Vikrant Vadathavoor

2.250

30

Olivia Ohr

2.242

31

Penelope Pressman

2.221

32

Easton Peters

2.195

33

Kaitlyn Tapia

2.167

34

Brooke Gemechu

2.153

35

Dash Gilrain-Lennon

2.134

36

Nikhil Bawa

2.099

37

Austin Loui

2.075

38

Abby Merges

2.066

39

Ethan Yang

2.052

40

Erin Jia

2.033

41

Ava Moon

2.027

42

Landon Stull

2.006

43

Kush Vijapure

1.997

44

Brooke Schiano-Gonzalez

1.996

45

Ethan Chen

1.992

46

Wali Hasan

1.984

47

Taejun Kim

1.970

48

Michael Meng

1.957

49

Aaron Yi

1.931

50

Ashley Lourenco

1.929

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

276

Sukruth Jangala & Shriish Sathish

0.849

277

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

0.844

278

Rohan Chopra & James Lai

0.843

279

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

0.833

280

Angelise Chang & Samhita Laxman

0.830

281

Jonathan Zu & Jacqueline Ma

0.828

282

Zijia Mo & Ava Fiala

0.825

283

Alexia Lara & Sofia Teifeld

0.824

284

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.822

285

Jessica Fan & Katherine Wu

0.822

286

Oliver Chen & Evan Zhang

0.821

287

Ellen Liu & Rohan Shah

0.816

288

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.808

289

Shankaran Srivatsa & Vivaan Beri

0.800

290

Timothy Kirichenko & Keshav Harpavat

0.800

291

Wyatt Newbill & Anirudh Puvvada

0.800

292

Kisa Kazmi & Akshitha Varre

0.798

293

Jayden Liu & Aditya Mukker

0.797

294

Lilly Spitzer & Suniva Achuthan

0.795

295

Emanuel Sasson & Alfred Jino

0.790

296

Sophie Pinto & Indy Das Sarma

0.789

297

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

0.787

298

Kennedy Cauwels & Jakob Hofer

0.786

299

Aayush Mohapatra & Mayen Mayen

0.781

300

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.781

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