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

201

Sophie Lin & Greg Guron

1.071

202

Mia Dalzell & Netta Miller

1.068

203

Gillian Ho & Michael Ji

1.068

204

Brad Cao & Faith Zhao

1.062

205

Coco Campbell & Fred Bao

1.062

206

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

1.061

207

Tanvee Tirthapura & Sanyukta Ravishankar

1.060

208

Alexei Varah & Ruiyu Tang

1.056

209

Saidhar Pinapati & Ritwik Gupta

1.052

210

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

1.051

211

Colin Foster & Earvin Yi

1.050

212

Tharoon Eswar & Rayaan Meghani

1.050

213

Zaiden Dee & Josie Mitchell

1.047

214

Aanya Baddela & Spencer Chaisanguanthum

1.045

215

Edward Napoli & Clayton Prisament

1.035

216

Isabel Chang & Kingston Harrison

1.024

217

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

1.020

218

Bella Jackson & Andy Chen

1.017

219

Shoumili Tarafder & Clara Stamm

1.014

220

Roha Rupareliya & Justin Wang

1.011

221

Noah Hirokawa & Luna Lee

1.011

222

Avital Dumontet & Alexandra Kosloff

1.007

223

Thelonious Kurland & Leo Hao

1.004

224

Aahana Gupta & Evelyn Asay

0.999

225

Izabella Yusupova & Fiore Chung

0.995

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