Debate Land Public Forum & Lincoln Douglas Rankings

Debate Land is proud to offer comprehensive national circuit rankings for Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas debate. We believe that by providing comprehensive and transparent rankings, we can foster a more inclusive, legitimate, and competitive debate community. Debate Land uses a proprietary metric of ranking debaters colloquially known as the OTR Score. It awards points based on scaled tournament attendance, high performance (deep elimination round runs), and success against difficult opponents. Every system has flaws, but the OTR 3.0 Score is an open-source metric widely available to debaters.

Last Updated:  

November 4, 2026

1) The first 500 teams are displayed. For full results, see Debate Land.
2) Read our methodology.
3) View results from past years.

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NSD Alumni represent 44 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Flynn Williams

3.857

2

Kaison Maruyama

3.310

3

Roger Zhen

3.253

4

Omar Obeidat

3.053

5

Erin Jia

2.624

6

Lucia Sanchez Gagerman

2.614

7

Noel Springer

2.582

9

Kevin Iwanski

2.500

10

Michael Reola

2.390

11

David Nemoianu

2.347

12

Skanda Gopikannan

2.195

13

Wareesha Islam

2.174

14

Christopher Shin

2.169

15

Aaron Choi

2.101

16

Colin Xiang

2.079

17

Naumika Naresh

2.065

18

Chance Hudson

2.005

19

Adrienne Wang

1.964

20

Sebastian Engle

1.953

21

Andrea Wong

1.945

22

Thatcher Hartman

1.904

23

Ethan Xu

1.856

24

Arjun Gupta

1.827

25

Craig O'Sullivan

1.807

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Aari Sabnani & Owen Falk

3.544

2

Arham Shah & Eli Lunde

3.526

3

Atharv Gabada & Neel Karur-Parekh

3.358

4

Arya Seth & Lucy Park

3.128

5

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

2.903

6

Milan Thacker & Zidaan Barodawala

2.876

7

Jacob Scherrer & William Mastella

2.485

8

Abhiram Eadala & Gregory Kozlov

2.392

9

Chiara D'Agostino & Etienne Yang

2.374

10

Benjamin Grabel & Kai Pehkonen

2.341

11

Beckett Vidrine & Lucy Borunda

2.339

12

Leo Leger & Pranay Kalra

2.244

13

Aman Thakur & Liam Findley

2.234

14

Ethan Ebbin & Lucas Shang

2.164

15

Eli Chen & Gary Ayala

2.111

16

Jase Patel & Sophia Patel

2.105

17

Alexis Kang & Oliver Ji

2.096

18

Chloe Deng & Iris Chisholm

2.081

19

Keerat Virdi & Rohan Deep

2.025

20

Afra Miao & Darshan Chidambaram

1.953

21

Annika Subramanian & Wilson Yao

1.893

22

Liam Olesnyckyj & Michael Li

1.883

23

Alejandro Caram & Mason Ross

1.870

24

Niel Peddibhotla & Swapneil Bose

1.828

25

Adrien Devery Michaelson & Lander Bovenzi

1.752