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

251

Raj Trivedi & Ian Ngo

0.929

252

Megan Waters & Christianna Thomas

0.923

253

Ellis Brown & Sofia Telio

0.922

254

Ori Shi & Alex Wang

0.921

255

Madelyn Berkenhoff & Amanda Martin

0.917

256

Simona Wang & Benjamin Xiao

0.916

257

Joshua Zhou & Apollin Lu

0.913

258

Anna Jhon & Charles Lu

0.909

259

Zoya Jamal & Kei Vo

0.907

260

Ethan Zhang & Claire Gao

0.898

261

Calder Weiss & Dexter Theisen

0.896

262

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

0.894

263

Reese Glasser & Jessie Gross

0.893

264

Naina Chopra & Andy Mei

0.889

265

Sophie Lu & Saanvi Goyal

0.889

266

Bella Kim & Abigail Chang

0.887

267

Samyak Duggirala & Jishnu Nayak

0.885

268

Rose Semmel & Una Cutrone

0.880

270

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

0.874

271

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

0.874

272

Timmy Chen & Umair Paranjpye

0.869

273

Jennie Wang & Amy Zhang

0.864

274

Amanda Zhong & Stephanie Yan

0.860

275

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.855

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