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

376

Spencer Chaisanguanthum & Shreya Saravanan

0.637

377

Riddhish Saravanan & Alex Liao

0.635

378

Akhil Bettadapura & Akshat Magesh

0.631

379

Nymisha Goli & Mekala Sundaram

0.630

380

Rishya Vemireddy & Advaita Ayuluri

0.630

381

Rachna Chinya & Maira Jaswal

0.629

382

Scheherazade Schonfeld & Julia Sandu

0.629

383

William Long & Sisi Holden

0.623

384

Liam Charest & Dylan O'Sullivan

0.617

385

Ray He & Claire Au

0.614

386

Dhanyashree Ramanathan & Stella Bie

0.612

387

Victor Chen & Victor Zhang

0.612

388

Wayne Liang & Nikki Zheng

0.611

389

Wayne Lu & Chaith Mittal

0.610

390

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

0.605

391

Arham Shah & Sophia Patel

0.604

392

Christine Zhong & Kevin Cisneros

0.603

393

Jack Martinez & Jeremy Rotberg

0.602

394

Colin Xu & Anna Yi

0.600

395

Lucy George & Will McNairy

0.599

396

Zachary Gibson & Sankalp Manjesh

0.596

397

Derek Song & Victor Cociorva

0.595

398

Lewis Le & Jarod Jiang

0.592

399

Joonsung Chyung & Pranay Kocheta

0.592

400

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.592

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