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. Debated somewhere else? Upload it instead.
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. You can come back and add more tournaments to your record at any time before your first rated round; a revision only ever adds, so nothing you have already claimed drops off.
These stay. Adding more can move your rating either way, the same as the record itself does.
Team entries list two last names, so either partner can search. Example: "Georgatos Miller".
Tabroom is most of the US circuit and almost none of the rest of the world. If your rounds live on Tabbycat, Calico, MIT-TAB, Speechwire, a federation results page, a league PDF or your coach's spreadsheet, hand it over and we will read it.
Check every number. You can correct a misread digit down, and adding wins needs evidence rather than typing, so anything you raise is kept at what the record showed.
If your results were never written down anywhere you can reach, 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.
Upload them. Tabbycat, Calico, MIT-TAB, Speechwire, a federation results page, a league PDF, a coach's spreadsheet, or a screenshot of any of those. We read the record out of it and seed from the same maths. Team-points formats like BP are converted round by round: a 3 or a 2 is a win, a 1 or a 0 is a loss.
Because we cannot check it. A Tabroom row is re-read by our server from published results; a screenshot is whatever you handed us, and an honest one looks exactly like a forged one. So an uploaded record tops out at 1750 instead of 1900 and keeps a wider uncertainty, which also means your first real rounds here move it faster. A claim mixing both takes the lower ceiling, because a record is only as checkable as its least checkable part.
Correct it before you claim. You can lower a win count or raise a loss count freely. Raising a win needs evidence rather than typing, so anything you push up is kept at what the record showed and we tell you it was.
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.
Claiming a record asserts it is yours. A seed carries wide uncertainty, records can only ever be added to a claim and never removed from it, and a seeded account never appears on the public leaderboard until it wins real rated rounds here. Once you have a rated round the import path closes for good, so a loss can never be re-rolled into a fresh one. 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.