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

201

Victor Kang

0.853

202

Stanley Huang

0.846

203

Daniel Zheng

0.843

204

Daniel Lao

0.836

205

Serena Blutter

0.835

206

Julia Thomas

0.835

207

Margalit Salkin

0.828

208

Stanley Liu

0.825

209

Ruby Simon

0.822

210

Renee Ding

0.818

211

Oliver Zhang

0.815

212

Raghav Senthil Kumar

0.811

213

Nathan Ko

0.808

214

Advika Prakash

0.807

215

Cyris Lim

0.801

217

Yining Guo

0.797

218

Brendan Finnegan

0.795

219

Drew Benthein

0.794

220

Jessica Katz

0.793

221

Michael Reola

0.789

222

Aarav Mahendru

0.787

224

Daniel Baek

0.774

225

Christina Brown

0.773

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

426

Swaroop Hebbar & Pranav Kallavi

0.536

427

Garrison Mehlin & Trey Fenton

0.533

428

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.532

429

Robert Zhou & William Liu

0.528

430

Eleri Davies & Iris Liang

0.527

431

Ayush Dave & Julian Vignes

0.526

432

Michael Hu & Landon Iley

0.524

433

Eshan Ahmad & Prateek Seela

0.523

434

Caitlin Loughran & Joanna Deng

0.517

435

Meena Adusumilli & Aadya Goel

0.517

436

Aadit Sharma & Ayan Nagulapally

0.517

437

Samuel Stein & Matthew Su

0.516

438

Paritosh Bhole & Ohmal Suresh

0.513

439

Avery Zhang & Alice Zhang

0.512

440

Emily Zhang & Sophia Shao

0.512

441

Ian Xu & Rheya Kurian

0.511

442

Tanvi Jain & Ameerah Suleman

0.507

443

Shreyas Dharani & Jay Tamirisa

0.505

444

Brooklynn Mayland & McKenzie Berg

0.504

445

Zia Shaikh & Vansh Chopra

0.504

446

Millie Doshi & Aaron Borukh

0.504

447

Teddy Rasmussen & Tobias Penner

0.503

448

Saishruthi Lakshminarayanan & Isabel Perez

0.500

449

Sean Au-Yeung & Maxim Huang

0.499

450

Andrew Wu & Akshaj Sama

0.498

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