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

426

Swaroop Hebbar & Pranav Kallavi

0.536

427

Garrison Mehlin & Trey Fenton

0.533

428

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.532

429

Robert Zhou & William Liu

0.528

430

Eleri Davies & Iris Liang

0.527

431

Ayush Dave & Julian Vignes

0.526

432

Michael Hu & Landon Iley

0.524

433

Eshan Ahmad & Prateek Seela

0.523

434

Caitlin Loughran & Joanna Deng

0.517

435

Meena Adusumilli & Aadya Goel

0.517

436

Aadit Sharma & Ayan Nagulapally

0.517

437

Samuel Stein & Matthew Su

0.516

438

Paritosh Bhole & Ohmal Suresh

0.513

439

Avery Zhang & Alice Zhang

0.512

440

Emily Zhang & Sophia Shao

0.512

441

Ian Xu & Rheya Kurian

0.511

442

Tanvi Jain & Ameerah Suleman

0.507

443

Shreyas Dharani & Jay Tamirisa

0.505

444

Brooklynn Mayland & McKenzie Berg

0.504

445

Zia Shaikh & Vansh Chopra

0.504

446

Millie Doshi & Aaron Borukh

0.504

447

Teddy Rasmussen & Tobias Penner

0.503

448

Saishruthi Lakshminarayanan & Isabel Perez

0.500

449

Sean Au-Yeung & Maxim Huang

0.499

450

Andrew Wu & Akshaj Sama

0.498

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