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

151

Kaden Buckner

1.018

152

Dylan Millimet

1.016

153

Lilly Stobo

1.013

154

Noah Arthur

1.011

155

Patrick Liu

1.010

156

Neel Aparanji

1.003

157

Lili Sella

1.000

158

Gabrielle Mckenzie

0.994

159

Vivek Thankavel

0.993

160

Lucas Chritah

0.990

162

Sahngwie Yim

0.988

163

Reanna Mohler

0.979

165

Sophia Moreno

0.969

166

Kristina Wisniewski

0.969

167

Aanya Ujjval

0.966

168

Kale Hildebrandt

0.962

169

Andy Hou

0.960

170

Ajay Krishnan

0.957

171

Kensho Nishio

0.955

172

Vance Fulton

0.950

173

Elle Dershewitz

0.948

174

Jad Vicente

0.946

175

Megan Waters

0.939

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

401

Dillan Jagannath & Alex Liu

0.589

402

Claire Cao & Oliver Stiele

0.586

403

Luke Zhong & Dessie Yang

0.585

404

Kaushik Sathiyandrakumar & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.583

405

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

0.583

406

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

0.583

407

Ryan Loughran & Ryan Ghiami

0.582

408

Miles Xing & Leo Tang

0.582

409

Connor Chun & Varun Bazaz

0.576

410

Riley Ross & Ezekiel Ehrenberg

0.574

411

Fiona Wu & Kate Song

0.572

412

Aditya Nair & Sahil Kancherla

0.571

413

Alex Masella & Isabelle Chiang

0.571

414

Avery Mak & Julia Kraffczyk

0.568

415

Neya Shah & Grace Hwang

0.562

416

Alina Qian & Arjun Patel

0.560

417

Jayden Padwalkar & Weijia Wu

0.554

418

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.551

419

Ethan Chen & Santiago Alvarez

0.547

420

Amanda Rose DeStefano & Sofia Haddadin

0.547

421

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

0.547

422

Weian Yu & Yihong Xu

0.545

423

Krishna Sathya Vagheeswar & Nikhil Chandran

0.540

424

Sandhya Shankar & Gargi Garg

0.540

425

Nakul Banka & Aiden Tracey

0.537

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