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

76

Laura Huang

1.651

77

Chloe Shao

1.639

78

William Covington

1.637

79

Anderson Hendrix

1.635

80

Andrew Gaffin

1.630

81

Aaron Kuang

1.605

83

Joyce Xiao

1.579

84

Neel Kannambadi

1.578

85

Xavier Phillip

1.577

86

Ezana Haile

1.573

87

Christopher Liu

1.555

88

Anshul Sharma

1.554

89

Aarnav Agrawal

1.551

90

Micah Byron-Smarra

1.531

91

Liam McDonald

1.525

92

Isaac Love

1.509

93

Max Gu

1.494

94

August Sone

1.471

95

Santino Balistrieri

1.468

96

Surya Dasari

1.458

97

Tomas Gonzalez

1.449

98

Derek Han

1.449

99

Lula Wang

1.444

100

Aaron Choi

1.436

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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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