Leaderboard privacy

What's on the leaderboard

University BP debaters and judges, each shown as first name and last initial, with their country, rank, rating and the number of tabs counted (on the live board, tabs from the last 12 months). High school tournaments are left out, so high school debaters are never on it.

Where it came from

Tournament tabs. After each tournament, the organisers publish results publicly, usually 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 its results count toward the leaderboard for everyone on that tab.
• A historical archive.Around 1,100 older tabs we pulled from public Tabbycat links. It feeds the rating maths for people already listed through imported tabs, but it doesn't add anyone new, on the leaderboard or on the position pages. If you want your archive history to count toward your public rank, sign in and turn on the archive opt-in in settings.

Names

• Everyone else sees your first name and last initial.For example “Alex K.”, on the leaderboard, on position, tournament prep and series pages, and on records. On a record that holds for the record's owner (in its heading and in the title search engines see) and for every partner, opponent and judge it names.
• The only full name you see is your own. On your own leaderboard row, and on your own record when you are signed in.
• Search matches what the board shows.A first name, a last initial or a country. A full name searches as first name and last initial, so “Alex Kim” finds every “Alex K.”; a surname on its own finds nothing. Signed in, you can also search by university.
• A recap card you share shows you as “First L.” too. Only you can make one, from your own record. Only its link opens it, and search engines are asked not to list it.

Guests and signed-in users

Not signed in: the first 15 rows of each list, search results included. No universities, on the leaderboard or on records. Search by first name or country only.

Signed in: every row, universities on the leaderboard and on records, the country filter, search by university, and links from the leaderboard to claimed records. Signing in means you've accepted the terms of service.

A claimed record is a public page once its owner has enough results on it. Anyone with its link can open it, and where its owner appears on a position page or on someone else's record, their name links to it. From the leaderboard, opening one needs sign-in.

What a record shows visitors

• Names as “First L.” The owner, partners, opponents and judges alike.
• No speaks under a judge's name.A visitor sees which judges were in the owner's rooms and how often, never the owner's speaks or placings with any one of them. Only the owner sees that.
• Hidden people stay hidden.Anyone who has hidden their name shows as a hidden handle on every record, never as “First L.”
• No photo or account details.Visitors don't get the owner's avatar, role or account id.
• Only what the owner leaves public. The owner can hide any panel from visitors, and a tournament they mark Private is hidden everywhere on the record.

Hiding your name

• Never signed up? Search your first name on the leaderboard and tap Hide your name under the results. You sign in, free, and send the request. Or email hello@buildacase.ca with your name and one tournament you debated at.
• Signed in? Use Request to hide my name at the bottom of the leaderboard or in settings.
• What hiding does.Your row keeps its place and shows as “Anonymous debater” or “Anonymous judge”, so everyone else's rank stays accurate. You drop out of search, and other pages show a hidden handle instead of your name. The handle can't be worked back to your name. We check each request by hand, usually within a week.
• Keep the archive hidden. That is already the default. Leave the archive opt-in off.

Why we built it

Debating has no shared record. Results sit on separate tab sites that nobody finds two years later. The leaderboard keeps them in one place, so debaters can see where they stand against the people they will meet at their next tournament.

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.

Questions

Email hello@buildacase.ca.

Last updated October 5, 2026.