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

451

Daniel Zhang & Tim Volkov

0.496

452

Jonathan Wu & Andrey Vasilyev

0.494

453

Sammit Joglekar & Dylan Shah

0.493

454

Ates Erden & Atakan Sevik

0.490

455

Ananya Lakkaraju & Liyuan Yao

0.490

456

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

0.486

457

Mitchell Golz & Mya Heintzman

0.486

458

Aditya Gupta & Adonay Mahatsente-Tewelde

0.485

459

Evan Shin & Ryan Shin

0.484

460

Aidan Krishnaney & Zaid Ashruf

0.483

461

Grace Gladson & Ellen Kuck

0.482

462

Connor Engstrom & Tanush Aggarwal

0.481

463

Jennifer Liu & Sophie Yeh

0.481

464

Sean Lu & Jack Zhang

0.479

465

Maximilian Urban & Magdalena Sarcos

0.479

466

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

0.479

467

Anna Charles & Palash Sahai

0.478

468

Yuming Yang & Aditya Arora

0.477

469

Siri Nuthalapati & Alyssa Chen

0.475

470

Evan Moffitt & Noah Arthur

0.474

471

Julian Song & Aarav Motivala

0.474

472

Xuanyu Dong & Leon Yang

0.471

473

Blair Shao & Andrew Wells

0.471

474

Gia Jhaveri & Amanda Lee

0.466

475

Zebulon Taylor & Rishi Raichur

0.461

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