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

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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