Leaderboard privacy

What's on the leaderboard, how it got there, and how to get off.

What's on it

Names of debaters and judges, their institution, tournament results, and a rating computed from those results.

Where it came from

Tournament tabs. After each tournament, the organisers publish results publicly on Tabbycat. The leaderboard reads from those tabs.

Two streams feed it.

  • Tabs you and other users import. Sign in, import a tournament you competed in, and the results contribute to the leaderboard for everyone in it.
  • A historical archive. Around 1,100 older tabs we pulled from public Tabbycat URLs. This stays hidden by default. It feeds the rating math for people already listed via user-imported tabs, but it doesn't surface anyone new. If you want your archive history to count toward your public ranking, sign in and toggle the archive opt-in. Otherwise it stays hidden.

High school tournaments are excluded.

Why we built it

Debating has no shared record. Tournament results sit on individual tab sites that nobody finds two years later. The leaderboard gives the activity a memory, so debaters can find peers, contextualise their own performance, and see what the field looks like.

Buildacase is free and the leaderboard carries no ads. We don't sell the data and we don't share it with anyone outside the page you're reading.

Guests vs. signed-in users

Not signed in: first name and last initial only (“Matt A.”). No institution column, no search. You can browse the rankings; you can't look people up by name.

Signed in: full names, institutions, search. Signing in means you've accepted the terms of service.

Getting off

Three paths.

  1. Opt out completely. Your name comes off the public list. Signed in? Go to settings or click the opt-out icon on your row. Not signed in? Email hello@buildacase.ca. We act within 48 hours.
  2. Go anonymous. Keep your position on the ranking, render as “Anonymous debater” or “Anonymous judge”. The ranking stays accurate; the name goes away.
  3. Keep the archive hidden. Already the default. Don't toggle on the archive opt-in.

Questions

Email hello@buildacase.ca.

Last updated May 2026.