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

126

Lionel Augustine & Leonardo Damato

1.438

127

Helen Mancini & Astrid Harrington

1.437

128

Sameet Das & Atharv Mahajan

1.435

129

Rachel Sinaiko & Sofia Millerman

1.433

130

Christopher Lin & Yhali Matot

1.403

131

Audrey Yang & Christian Lee

1.402

132

Grant Morishita & Teddy Choe

1.391

133

James Yu & Junseo Lee

1.391

134

Kethan Neginhal & Preston Lieu

1.382

135

Keller Wagemann & Kidus Hiruy

1.377

136

Vaibhav Kolli & Ryan Pius

1.376

137

Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

1.367

138

Eli Chen & Rahul Rani

1.362

139

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

1.358

140

Sophia Xiong & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.352

141

Oliver Beamer & Aari Sabnani

1.350

142

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

1.336

143

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

1.298

144

Ryan Xie & Elizabeth Chung

1.282

145

Ryan Kang & Tobin Wilson

1.274

146

Sumith Murthy & Nathan Hadi

1.271

147

Ezra McCullers & Jared Bart

1.271

148

Parsa Hassanpour & Jessica Liao

1.269

149

Carlye Sanchez & Carter Nelson

1.266

150

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

1.265

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