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

176

Sanjeev Arora

0.937

177

Rani Green

0.936

178

Felicity Zhang

0.934

179

Eric Xing

0.927

180

Debarghya Dhar

0.922

181

Winston Chou

0.919

182

John Joyce

0.917

183

Emilio Garza

0.916

184

Ash Yu

0.912

185

Isaiah Muniz

0.909

186

Grace Chen

0.907

187

Navid Sheybani

0.901

188

Bryan Fu

0.897

189

Nathaniel Watkins

0.889

190

Jamie Hao

0.888

191

Leah Fischer

0.887

192

Adeena Naeem

0.886

193

Oliver Li

0.885

194

Andy Mezgravis-Miani

0.880

195

Jaylen Hilario-Peralta

0.874

196

Noah Reardon

0.873

197

Elijah Cruz

0.859

198

Ali Naseem

0.858

199

Thatcher Hartman

0.857

200

Rishabh Handa

0.856

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

276

Sukruth Jangala & Shriish Sathish

0.849

277

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

0.844

278

Rohan Chopra & James Lai

0.843

279

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

0.833

280

Angelise Chang & Samhita Laxman

0.830

281

Jonathan Zu & Jacqueline Ma

0.828

282

Zijia Mo & Ava Fiala

0.825

283

Alexia Lara & Sofia Teifeld

0.824

284

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.822

285

Jessica Fan & Katherine Wu

0.822

286

Oliver Chen & Evan Zhang

0.821

287

Ellen Liu & Rohan Shah

0.816

288

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.808

289

Shankaran Srivatsa & Vivaan Beri

0.800

290

Timothy Kirichenko & Keshav Harpavat

0.800

291

Wyatt Newbill & Anirudh Puvvada

0.800

292

Kisa Kazmi & Akshitha Varre

0.798

293

Jayden Liu & Aditya Mukker

0.797

294

Lilly Spitzer & Suniva Achuthan

0.795

295

Emanuel Sasson & Alfred Jino

0.790

296

Sophie Pinto & Indy Das Sarma

0.789

297

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

0.787

298

Kennedy Cauwels & Jakob Hofer

0.786

299

Aayush Mohapatra & Mayen Mayen

0.781

300

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.781

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