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

101

Jerry Li

1.419

102

Samuel Rubinstein

1.417

103

Asher Meron

1.411

104

Veronica Zhang

1.411

105

Allison Liu

1.385

106

Johnny Stumpff

1.361

107

Angelina Antony

1.353

110

Rishad Vaghaiwalla

1.305

111

Mina Hu

1.291

112

Harris James

1.280

113

Jayden Park

1.277

114

Jason Jiang

1.271

115

Lucas Cao

1.242

116

Parker Hamstra

1.233

117

Miles Kshatriya

1.231

118

Ryan Chang

1.229

119

Rory Baskin

1.220

120

Suchita Vennam

1.212

121

Plamen Checketts

1.170

122

Theo Khakoo

1.151

123

Karenna Mehta

1.141

125

Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

1.123

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Romir Patel & Ezekiel Ehrenberg

3.969

2

Ashish Goswami & Leonardo Jia

3.501

3

Jason Zhao & Daniel Guo

3.387

4

Alan Tai & Saanvi Goyal

3.199

5

Kayte Chan & Anika Gupta

3.125

6

Rejul Guru & Sudeep Vattikuti

3.061

7

Faizaan Ahmad & Bashir Eltyeb

2.969

8

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.905

9

Anuj Lohtia & Arrman Kapoor

2.839

10

Luke Zhong & Andrew Li

2.832

11

Derek Song & Ali Fehmi

2.793

12

Eshan Ahmad & Rajan Sambandam

2.789

13

Christopher Tang & Cooper Li

2.732

14

Connor Chun & Sahil Gubbi

2.724

15

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

2.657

16

Ansh Singhal & Niranjan Ashok

2.632

17

Evan McElfresh & William Filocamo

2.611

18

Allen Liu & Gaurav Rao

2.585

19

Jet Tsang & Anthony Luo

2.556

20

Ryan Chen & Nicky Wang

2.534

21

Pranav Ravulapati & Raya Jung

2.493

22

Adelaide Chow & Grace Wieland

2.453

23

Vedatman Duhoon & Vaibhav Wudaru

2.427

24

Devin Lester & Yezul Maharjan

2.411

25

Zara Lake & Zacky Shalizi

2.379

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