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

301

Claire Bockholt & Aadil Ali

0.781

302

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

0.781

303

Alyssa Chen & Lindsay Coady

0.779

304

Aaditya Manami-Ratan & Samanyu Gowda

0.776

305

Abigail McDonald & Jamie Berntson

0.775

306

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

0.774

307

Richy Zheng & Alexander Chen

0.773

308

Reuben Mackler & Nathan Brawner

0.772

309

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.772

310

Jaival Patel & Eshaan Chachad

0.768

311

Ruta Sirdeshmukh & Michelle Wang

0.768

312

Thomas Shanmugam & William Shanmugam

0.765

313

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

0.765

314

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

0.762

315

Emmet O'Sullivan & Owen O'Toole

0.761

316

Abbott Carothers & Aarush Tutiki

0.761

317

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

0.759

318

Sebastian Engle & Nathaniel Dsilva

0.757

319

Leo Cheng & Joy Xia

0.755

320

Sahasra Godlaveti & Ava Datta

0.751

321

Yashas Singh & Jiseung Jung

0.750

322

Ved Kusurkar & Jun-hyeok Moon

0.750

323

Tina Li & Matthew Liu

0.748

324

Allen Hawkins & James Houser

0.742

325

Jeremy Yang & Arjun Nair

0.740

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