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

476

Sumith Murthy & Cruz Castillo

0.461

477

David Lu & Khoa Le

0.460

478

Thomas Mastella & William Mastella

0.459

479

Ayub Ahmed & Aayush Khadse

0.458

480

Soujanya Sethuraman & Yash Bhutoria

0.457

481

Solomon Binyaminov & Jasmine Liang

0.455

482

Zayd Patel & Preston Lieu

0.455

483

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

0.454

484

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.453

485

Ishaan Hemrajani & Fahim Jahingir

0.452

486

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.449

487

Emily Park & Michael Ji

0.448

488

Dominic Wang & Gaurav Rao

0.448

489

Ilina Jetley & Kassidy Khuu

0.448

490

Irene Pang & Jake Paltrowitz

0.448

491

Sebastian Engle & Sam Parsi

0.447

492

Ava Figueroa & Hannah Zhao

0.446

493

Som Chandrashekar & Thomas Liu

0.445

494

Benjamin Buchalter & Luka Makino Siller

0.443

495

Jasmeet Singh & Hrishi Patel

0.439

496

Kamran Paksima & Matthew Wu

0.439

497

Seth Gerhardt & Everett Mescher

0.437

498

Ishaan Hemrajani & Mihir Gannavarapu

0.435

499

Anuj Patel & Alberto Acereda

0.434

500

Melinda Synn & Ali Fehmi

0.433

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