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

201

Sophie Lin & Greg Guron

1.071

202

Mia Dalzell & Netta Miller

1.068

203

Gillian Ho & Michael Ji

1.068

204

Brad Cao & Faith Zhao

1.062

205

Coco Campbell & Fred Bao

1.062

206

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

1.061

207

Tanvee Tirthapura & Sanyukta Ravishankar

1.060

208

Alexei Varah & Ruiyu Tang

1.056

209

Saidhar Pinapati & Ritwik Gupta

1.052

210

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

1.051

211

Colin Foster & Earvin Yi

1.050

212

Tharoon Eswar & Rayaan Meghani

1.050

213

Zaiden Dee & Josie Mitchell

1.047

214

Aanya Baddela & Spencer Chaisanguanthum

1.045

215

Edward Napoli & Clayton Prisament

1.035

216

Isabel Chang & Kingston Harrison

1.024

217

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

1.020

218

Bella Jackson & Andy Chen

1.017

219

Shoumili Tarafder & Clara Stamm

1.014

220

Roha Rupareliya & Justin Wang

1.011

221

Noah Hirokawa & Luna Lee

1.011

222

Avital Dumontet & Alexandra Kosloff

1.007

223

Thelonious Kurland & Leo Hao

1.004

224

Aahana Gupta & Evelyn Asay

0.999

225

Izabella Yusupova & Fiore Chung

0.995

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