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

26

Aumrita Savdharia & Stavan Shah

2.338

27

Claire Sim & Brian Liu

2.337

28

Tesu Ham & Farhan Khan

2.329

29

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

2.307

30

Brett MacKay & Cameron Ingram

2.306

31

Avni Iyer & Bhavya Kumar

2.303

32

Ronav Ganesh & Arnav Agarwal

2.289

33

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.279

34

Hannah Kim & Amey Kashyap

2.275

35

Ethan Mao & Paul Wang

2.274

36

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.253

37

Stella Bie & Rishi Ramaswamy

2.238

38

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.208

39

Bryan Zhao & Alexander Zhang

2.189

40

Zellie Olson & Eva Redmond

2.168

41

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

2.166

42

Kaylee Chen & Ruhi Kurdikar

2.164

43

Tristan Mankovsky & Sasha Leifer

2.113

44

Owen Erdman & Samuel Weisz

2.109

45

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

2.107

46

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

2.085

47

John Joyce & Ben Miyares

2.068

48

Connor Chun & Vishwa Rakasi

2.066

49

Daniel Mendelson & Max Salomon

2.064

50

Tony Liu & Hamza Banatwala

2.061

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