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

476

Sumith Murthy & Cruz Castillo

0.461

477

David Lu & Khoa Le

0.460

478

Thomas Mastella & William Mastella

0.459

479

Ayub Ahmed & Aayush Khadse

0.458

480

Soujanya Sethuraman & Yash Bhutoria

0.457

481

Solomon Binyaminov & Jasmine Liang

0.455

482

Zayd Patel & Preston Lieu

0.455

483

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

0.454

484

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.453

485

Ishaan Hemrajani & Fahim Jahingir

0.452

486

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.449

487

Emily Park & Michael Ji

0.448

488

Dominic Wang & Gaurav Rao

0.448

489

Ilina Jetley & Kassidy Khuu

0.448

490

Irene Pang & Jake Paltrowitz

0.448

491

Sebastian Engle & Sam Parsi

0.447

492

Ava Figueroa & Hannah Zhao

0.446

493

Som Chandrashekar & Thomas Liu

0.445

494

Benjamin Buchalter & Luka Makino Siller

0.443

495

Jasmeet Singh & Hrishi Patel

0.439

496

Kamran Paksima & Matthew Wu

0.439

497

Seth Gerhardt & Everett Mescher

0.437

498

Ishaan Hemrajani & Mihir Gannavarapu

0.435

499

Anuj Patel & Alberto Acereda

0.434

500

Melinda Synn & Ali Fehmi

0.433

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