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

101

Vihaan Jain & Kevin Ren

1.607

102

Sarayu Pasumarthi & Adya Balakrishnan

1.607

103

Ella Reddy & Arreyana Khaliq

1.587

104

Filipe Owen Scorsatto Botelho & Yash Kothari

1.567

105

Anvay Sur & Suraj Nistala

1.554

106

Varun Swarup & Ian Olenich

1.549

107

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

1.546

108

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

1.539

109

Rithika Binu & Rajiv Nemani

1.539

110

Vincent Zhu & Ted Dudley

1.533

111

Finney Haire & Luke Holmes

1.522

112

Charlie Yang & Wenzhuo Zhang

1.520

113

Ignacio Chazarreta & Joseph Alonso

1.520

114

Daniel Jiang & Winston Ling

1.510

115

Anna Zhang & Chenjia Ni

1.485

116

Aayaan Sahu & Aarya Srinivasan

1.478

117

Abhay Sankar & Atharva Makode

1.475

118

Amber Wong & Yashvi Jaladi

1.467

119

Akshaj Bozza & Shaunik Musukula

1.466

120

Linda Zhang & Joyce Liu

1.455

121

Grady Pazona & Paul Schneider

1.451

122

Nikhil Daniel & Amanda DeStefano

1.449

123

Ramsey Warner & Ariyanna Ghala

1.448

124

Ben Rask & Soumil Bhandari

1.439

125

Ishaan Ahsan & Austin She

1.438

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