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

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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