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

476

Aidan Haya

0.276

477

Rebecca Clark

0.275

478

Mariel Salim-Gomez

0.274

479

James Kennon

0.273

481

Matthew Tamayo

0.272

482

Ishaan Gokaraju

0.272

483

Timothy Slota

0.271

484

Leo Zhang

0.271

485

Samuel Wawi

0.270

486

Nina Chen

0.269

487

Chase Hoffman

0.269

488

Sawyer Hatfield

0.266

489

Harshit Kondle

0.266

490

Saisha Puri

0.265

491

Max Schuelke

0.262

492

Barclay Blair

0.262

493

Nikhita Thakuria

0.261

494

Caleb Kim

0.261

495

Alec Ward

0.260

496

Nilesh Mudupalli

0.258

497

Tala Almansir

0.258

498

Ruby Albert

0.258

499

Alison Om

0.256

500

Alina Diaz

0.254

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Romir Patel & Ezekiel Ehrenberg

3.969

2

Ashish Goswami & Leonardo Jia

3.501

3

Jason Zhao & Daniel Guo

3.387

4

Alan Tai & Saanvi Goyal

3.199

5

Kayte Chan & Anika Gupta

3.125

6

Rejul Guru & Sudeep Vattikuti

3.061

7

Faizaan Ahmad & Bashir Eltyeb

2.969

8

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.905

9

Anuj Lohtia & Arrman Kapoor

2.839

10

Luke Zhong & Andrew Li

2.832

11

Derek Song & Ali Fehmi

2.793

12

Eshan Ahmad & Rajan Sambandam

2.789

13

Christopher Tang & Cooper Li

2.732

14

Connor Chun & Sahil Gubbi

2.724

15

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

2.657

16

Ansh Singhal & Niranjan Ashok

2.632

17

Evan McElfresh & William Filocamo

2.611

18

Allen Liu & Gaurav Rao

2.585

19

Jet Tsang & Anthony Luo

2.556

20

Ryan Chen & Nicky Wang

2.534

21

Pranav Ravulapati & Raya Jung

2.493

22

Adelaide Chow & Grace Wieland

2.453

23

Vedatman Duhoon & Vaibhav Wudaru

2.427

24

Devin Lester & Yezul Maharjan

2.411

25

Zara Lake & Zacky Shalizi

2.379

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