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

376

Spencer Chaisanguanthum & Shreya Saravanan

0.637

377

Riddhish Saravanan & Alex Liao

0.635

378

Akhil Bettadapura & Akshat Magesh

0.631

379

Nymisha Goli & Mekala Sundaram

0.630

380

Rishya Vemireddy & Advaita Ayuluri

0.630

381

Rachna Chinya & Maira Jaswal

0.629

382

Scheherazade Schonfeld & Julia Sandu

0.629

383

William Long & Sisi Holden

0.623

384

Liam Charest & Dylan O'Sullivan

0.617

385

Ray He & Claire Au

0.614

386

Dhanyashree Ramanathan & Stella Bie

0.612

387

Victor Chen & Victor Zhang

0.612

388

Wayne Liang & Nikki Zheng

0.611

389

Wayne Lu & Chaith Mittal

0.610

390

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

0.605

391

Arham Shah & Sophia Patel

0.604

392

Christine Zhong & Kevin Cisneros

0.603

393

Jack Martinez & Jeremy Rotberg

0.602

394

Colin Xu & Anna Yi

0.600

395

Lucy George & Will McNairy

0.599

396

Zachary Gibson & Sankalp Manjesh

0.596

397

Derek Song & Victor Cociorva

0.595

398

Lewis Le & Jarod Jiang

0.592

399

Joonsung Chyung & Pranay Kocheta

0.592

400

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.592

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