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

126

Nicholas Fedorov

1.114

127

Flynn Williams

1.099

128

Emma Sobel

1.096

129

Evan Chen

1.096

130

David Xu

1.090

131

Esther Goldman

1.087

132

Cameron Simmons

1.081

133

Aayush Gandhi

1.078

134

Dylan Carey

1.072

135

Skanda Gopikannan

1.072

136

Lucia Sanchez Gagerman

1.069

137

Ashley Rini

1.067

138

Taro Porschke

1.064

139

Jacob Skolnick

1.059

140

Leyi Han

1.059

141

Grady Morris

1.057

142

Dariia Chugueva

1.057

143

Vihaan Patel

1.055

144

Brian Son

1.055

145

Mason Csantaveri

1.052

146

Ayaan Singh

1.049

147

Michael Ahn

1.048

148

Tara Prem

1.040

149

Benjamin Weiner

1.034

150

Rohan Chimata

1.033

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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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