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

1

Prateek Seela

4.277

2

Iva Liu

4.192

3

Justin Wen

4.185

4

Om Modi

4.113

5

Siddhartha Daswani

3.755

6

Sarah Koshy

3.754

7

Sterling Utovac

3.561

8

Selina Zhang

3.504

9

Riley Ro

3.315

10

Jack Borman

3.198

11

Kaison Maruyama

2.894

13

Miller Roberts

2.762

14

Kelvin Meng

2.663

15

Jackson White

2.595

16

William Liu

2.566

17

Salma Gheith

2.557

18

Jack Gessner

2.546

19

Shiwen Huang

2.491

20

Atharva Srivastava

2.457

21

Timothy Jiang

2.456

22

Bolang Zhu

2.402

23

Vishal Surya

2.402

24

Reese Potash

2.400

25

Andrew Brandt

2.338

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

276

Sukruth Jangala & Shriish Sathish

0.849

277

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

0.844

278

Rohan Chopra & James Lai

0.843

279

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

0.833

280

Angelise Chang & Samhita Laxman

0.830

281

Jonathan Zu & Jacqueline Ma

0.828

282

Zijia Mo & Ava Fiala

0.825

283

Alexia Lara & Sofia Teifeld

0.824

284

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.822

285

Jessica Fan & Katherine Wu

0.822

286

Oliver Chen & Evan Zhang

0.821

287

Ellen Liu & Rohan Shah

0.816

288

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.808

289

Shankaran Srivatsa & Vivaan Beri

0.800

290

Timothy Kirichenko & Keshav Harpavat

0.800

291

Wyatt Newbill & Anirudh Puvvada

0.800

292

Kisa Kazmi & Akshitha Varre

0.798

293

Jayden Liu & Aditya Mukker

0.797

294

Lilly Spitzer & Suniva Achuthan

0.795

295

Emanuel Sasson & Alfred Jino

0.790

296

Sophie Pinto & Indy Das Sarma

0.789

297

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

0.787

298

Kennedy Cauwels & Jakob Hofer

0.786

299

Aayush Mohapatra & Mayen Mayen

0.781

300

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.781

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