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

476

Sumith Murthy & Cruz Castillo

0.461

477

David Lu & Khoa Le

0.460

478

Thomas Mastella & William Mastella

0.459

479

Ayub Ahmed & Aayush Khadse

0.458

480

Soujanya Sethuraman & Yash Bhutoria

0.457

481

Solomon Binyaminov & Jasmine Liang

0.455

482

Zayd Patel & Preston Lieu

0.455

483

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

0.454

484

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.453

485

Ishaan Hemrajani & Fahim Jahingir

0.452

486

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.449

487

Emily Park & Michael Ji

0.448

488

Dominic Wang & Gaurav Rao

0.448

489

Ilina Jetley & Kassidy Khuu

0.448

490

Irene Pang & Jake Paltrowitz

0.448

491

Sebastian Engle & Sam Parsi

0.447

492

Ava Figueroa & Hannah Zhao

0.446

493

Som Chandrashekar & Thomas Liu

0.445

494

Benjamin Buchalter & Luka Makino Siller

0.443

495

Jasmeet Singh & Hrishi Patel

0.439

496

Kamran Paksima & Matthew Wu

0.439

497

Seth Gerhardt & Everett Mescher

0.437

498

Ishaan Hemrajani & Mihir Gannavarapu

0.435

499

Anuj Patel & Alberto Acereda

0.434

500

Melinda Synn & Ali Fehmi

0.433

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