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

176

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

1.175

177

Pranav Pradeep & Prthvi Pradeep

1.174

178

Alex Lee & Alexander Jen

1.174

179

Shreya Krishnakumar & Surya Nookala

1.170

180

Shreya Pawar & Jessica Kim

1.165

181

Anshika Agrawal & Siri Ramineni

1.139

182

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

1.138

183

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

1.126

184

Peter Hablinski & Winston Wu

1.118

185

Aarushi Thatola & Anya Kaushik

1.117

186

Natalie Yung & Isabelle Chiang

1.115

187

Shruthi Nagulapalli & Ariana Corbu

1.103

188

Neelay Shah & Shaan Mehta

1.096

189

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

1.096

190

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

1.095

191

Cruz Castillo & Ethan Wan

1.094

192

Cady Wu & Natalie Zhang

1.094

193

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

1.091

194

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

1.083

195

Esha Bindlish & Arianna Desai

1.083

196

Flora Park & Ryan Kwon

1.078

197

Feliks Lin & Andres Mendoza Casas

1.076

198

Bharadwaj Duggaraju & Dhanyashree Ramanathan

1.075

199

Aaron Eagan & Jason Cohen

1.073

200

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

1.073

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