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

326

Aashna Bhakkad & Anoushka Rai

0.738

327

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

0.735

328

Evan Hernandez & Granville Lee

0.734

329

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

0.733

330

Callaway Weeks & Grant Wiessner

0.733

331

Rui-Shi Chu & Alexy Chu

0.731

332

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.730

333

Arjun Myneni & Navadeep Budda

0.728

334

Shaan Magon & Ethan Zhao

0.725

335

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

0.721

336

Grace Fu & Helen Han

0.715

337

Flora Tu & Clair Xing

0.713

338

Emily Park & Emma Chang

0.708

339

Ethan Zhao & Mac Stratton

0.708

340

Avi Saraf & Koby Shnekendorf

0.706

341

Derek Tang & Annissa Li

0.701

342

Etienne Yang & Chiara D'agostino

0.701

343

Ankith Gundimeda & Graham Canter

0.701

344

Brad Bobaru & Lucas Neamu

0.699

345

Kethan Neginhal & Dash Carey-squire

0.694

346

Spencer Walker & Kushal Patil

0.690

347

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

0.688

348

Krishiv Manyam & Tiffany Liu

0.686

349

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

0.685

350

Claire Watz & Sadie Slobin

0.684

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