Look yourself up. The index covers 300+ tournaments of published Tabroom results. Select the entries that are you and your Debate Rating seeds from your actual record, not from a blank 1500.
Straight about what a seed is: your number appears on your profile immediately with wide uncertainty, and it tightens as you debate here. The public leaderboard still takes 3 rated rounds on Debatable. Importing works once, and only before your first rated round.
Team entries list two last names, so either partner can search. Example: "Georgatos Miller".
APDA, BP, international circuits, and tournaments that never published results will not show up here. Pick the level that matches your experience and seed conservatively instead.
From results tournaments chose to publish on Tabroom, the tab software most US circuits run on. The index covers hundreds of tournaments across PF, LD, Policy, parli, and World Schools. If a tournament never published results, it will not be here.
Your win rate across the rounds you claim, with elimination-round wins counting extra and small samples pulled toward the middle. The seed lands between 1200 and 1900 on the same Glicko scale every rated round here uses. Read how the Debate Rating works for the full system.
The records are public either way; claiming one asserts it is yours. A seed carries wide uncertainty, importing works exactly once, and a seeded account never appears on the public leaderboard until it wins real rated rounds here. Lying gets you a number your first three rounds will correct.
Skip this page. Start a round at /spar or practice against the AI; your rating builds from your first rated round the normal way.
No. It is part of setting up your competitive profile.