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

176

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

1.175

177

Pranav Pradeep & Prthvi Pradeep

1.174

178

Alex Lee & Alexander Jen

1.174

179

Shreya Krishnakumar & Surya Nookala

1.170

180

Shreya Pawar & Jessica Kim

1.165

181

Anshika Agrawal & Siri Ramineni

1.139

182

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

1.138

183

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

1.126

184

Peter Hablinski & Winston Wu

1.118

185

Aarushi Thatola & Anya Kaushik

1.117

186

Natalie Yung & Isabelle Chiang

1.115

187

Shruthi Nagulapalli & Ariana Corbu

1.103

188

Neelay Shah & Shaan Mehta

1.096

189

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

1.096

190

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

1.095

191

Cruz Castillo & Ethan Wan

1.094

192

Cady Wu & Natalie Zhang

1.094

193

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

1.091

194

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

1.083

195

Esha Bindlish & Arianna Desai

1.083

196

Flora Park & Ryan Kwon

1.078

197

Feliks Lin & Andres Mendoza Casas

1.076

198

Bharadwaj Duggaraju & Dhanyashree Ramanathan

1.075

199

Aaron Eagan & Jason Cohen

1.073

200

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

1.073

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