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

401

Dillan Jagannath & Alex Liu

0.589

402

Claire Cao & Oliver Stiele

0.586

403

Luke Zhong & Dessie Yang

0.585

404

Kaushik Sathiyandrakumar & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.583

405

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

0.583

406

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

0.583

407

Ryan Loughran & Ryan Ghiami

0.582

408

Miles Xing & Leo Tang

0.582

409

Connor Chun & Varun Bazaz

0.576

410

Riley Ross & Ezekiel Ehrenberg

0.574

411

Fiona Wu & Kate Song

0.572

412

Aditya Nair & Sahil Kancherla

0.571

413

Alex Masella & Isabelle Chiang

0.571

414

Avery Mak & Julia Kraffczyk

0.568

415

Neya Shah & Grace Hwang

0.562

416

Alina Qian & Arjun Patel

0.560

417

Jayden Padwalkar & Weijia Wu

0.554

418

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.551

419

Ethan Chen & Santiago Alvarez

0.547

420

Amanda Rose DeStefano & Sofia Haddadin

0.547

421

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

0.547

422

Weian Yu & Yihong Xu

0.545

423

Krishna Sathya Vagheeswar & Nikhil Chandran

0.540

424

Sandhya Shankar & Gargi Garg

0.540

425

Nakul Banka & Aiden Tracey

0.537

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