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

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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