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

126

Lionel Augustine & Leonardo Damato

1.438

127

Helen Mancini & Astrid Harrington

1.437

128

Sameet Das & Atharv Mahajan

1.435

129

Rachel Sinaiko & Sofia Millerman

1.433

130

Christopher Lin & Yhali Matot

1.403

131

Audrey Yang & Christian Lee

1.402

132

Grant Morishita & Teddy Choe

1.391

133

James Yu & Junseo Lee

1.391

134

Kethan Neginhal & Preston Lieu

1.382

135

Keller Wagemann & Kidus Hiruy

1.377

136

Vaibhav Kolli & Ryan Pius

1.376

137

Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

1.367

138

Eli Chen & Rahul Rani

1.362

139

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

1.358

140

Sophia Xiong & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.352

141

Oliver Beamer & Aari Sabnani

1.350

142

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

1.336

143

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

1.298

144

Ryan Xie & Elizabeth Chung

1.282

145

Ryan Kang & Tobin Wilson

1.274

146

Sumith Murthy & Nathan Hadi

1.271

147

Ezra McCullers & Jared Bart

1.271

148

Parsa Hassanpour & Jessica Liao

1.269

149

Carlye Sanchez & Carter Nelson

1.266

150

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

1.265

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