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

26

Aumrita Savdharia & Stavan Shah

2.338

27

Claire Sim & Brian Liu

2.337

28

Tesu Ham & Farhan Khan

2.329

29

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

2.307

30

Brett MacKay & Cameron Ingram

2.306

31

Avni Iyer & Bhavya Kumar

2.303

32

Ronav Ganesh & Arnav Agarwal

2.289

33

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.279

34

Hannah Kim & Amey Kashyap

2.275

35

Ethan Mao & Paul Wang

2.274

36

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.253

37

Stella Bie & Rishi Ramaswamy

2.238

38

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.208

39

Bryan Zhao & Alexander Zhang

2.189

40

Zellie Olson & Eva Redmond

2.168

41

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

2.166

42

Kaylee Chen & Ruhi Kurdikar

2.164

43

Tristan Mankovsky & Sasha Leifer

2.113

44

Owen Erdman & Samuel Weisz

2.109

45

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

2.107

46

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

2.085

47

John Joyce & Ben Miyares

2.068

48

Connor Chun & Vishwa Rakasi

2.066

49

Daniel Mendelson & Max Salomon

2.064

50

Tony Liu & Hamza Banatwala

2.061

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