How the rankings work
- Per tournament: a team that does not break to elims earns 0 points.
- A team that breaks earns a prelim base of 2 × prelim win % + 0.25 per prelim win − 0.25 per prelim loss (rounded to 0.05), plus 2 for breaking, plus partial first-elim-round credit (0–1) if that round was not a full bracket, plus a bonus for each full elim round won: 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 2.0, 2.2 for the 1st through 7th win. The total is rounded to the nearest 0.05.
- Season ranking: the sum of a team's best 4 tournament results that season. Every ingested tournament counts equally (no weighting by field size), and ties are not broken.
- Teams are the same two debaters (in either order) at the same school in a season. School totals add up every team's best-4 total.
- Titles count tournaments won (elim wins with no elim loss, so a closeout credits both finalists) plus NPTE/NPDA national championships.
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