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

451

Daniel Zhang & Tim Volkov

0.496

452

Jonathan Wu & Andrey Vasilyev

0.494

453

Sammit Joglekar & Dylan Shah

0.493

454

Ates Erden & Atakan Sevik

0.490

455

Ananya Lakkaraju & Liyuan Yao

0.490

456

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

0.486

457

Mitchell Golz & Mya Heintzman

0.486

458

Aditya Gupta & Adonay Mahatsente-Tewelde

0.485

459

Evan Shin & Ryan Shin

0.484

460

Aidan Krishnaney & Zaid Ashruf

0.483

461

Grace Gladson & Ellen Kuck

0.482

462

Connor Engstrom & Tanush Aggarwal

0.481

463

Jennifer Liu & Sophie Yeh

0.481

464

Sean Lu & Jack Zhang

0.479

465

Maximilian Urban & Magdalena Sarcos

0.479

466

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

0.479

467

Anna Charles & Palash Sahai

0.478

468

Yuming Yang & Aditya Arora

0.477

469

Siri Nuthalapati & Alyssa Chen

0.475

470

Evan Moffitt & Noah Arthur

0.474

471

Julian Song & Aarav Motivala

0.474

472

Xuanyu Dong & Leon Yang

0.471

473

Blair Shao & Andrew Wells

0.471

474

Gia Jhaveri & Amanda Lee

0.466

475

Zebulon Taylor & Rishi Raichur

0.461

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