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:  

October 21, 2025

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

226

Navid Sheybani

0.133

227

Lavi Avigad

0.133

228

Jaden Williams

0.132

229

Thanvi Voruganti

0.132

230

Anirudh Subramanian

0.132

231

Toby Hou

0.132

232

Vivek Thankavel

0.130

233

Jason Rong

0.129

234

Payton Pan

0.128

235

Kevin Zhang

0.128

236

Nicholas Fedorov

0.127

237

Sofia Shah

0.127

239

Oliver Tan

0.126

240

Penny Stoller

0.125

241

Vick Tan

0.124

242

Dhruv Mallick

0.124

243

Soluchi Aneji

0.123

244

Kevin Iwanski

0.123

245

Upton Ta-Beadle

0.122

246

Izzy Lee

0.122

247

Chupeng Gui

0.122

248

Justin Ding

0.121

249

Isaac Forstot

0.121

250

Ezana Haile

0.119

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

401

Zijia Mo & Ava Fiala

0.050

402

Suvas Sureneni & Iniyan Gokulkumar

0.050

403

Chloe Zou & Eva Averin

0.050

404

Chelsea Guo & Nisha Nandy

0.050

405

Maddie Lee & Adi Gupta

0.050

406

Benjamin Yarden & Eric Liu

0.050

407

Joy Shen & Evan Lee

0.050

408

Aditya Mathur & Lucas Lo

0.050

409

Neev Paul & Isaac Hong

0.050

410

Jackson Zarro & Sara Borkar

0.050

411

Arib Naqvi & Kabir Gandhi

0.050

412

Liz Haile & Jasmine Khalifa

0.050

413

Reuben Mackler & Nathan Brawner

0.049

414

Kaeden Najafian & Jua Yi

0.049

415

Surya Nookala & Felix Xu

0.049

416

Varun Venkateswaran & Wes Krikorian

0.049

417

Avi Saraf & Koby Shnekendorf

0.049

418

H.t. Xue & Teddy Choe

0.049

419

Christopher Tang & Cooper Li

0.049

420

Naitik Narang & Tulasi Bonda

0.049

421

Iris Zhu & Henry Chen

0.049

422

Jack Logue & Emily Zhang

0.049

423

Clementine Birnbaum & Francis Harmon

0.049

424

Sana Kashyap & Kana Watanabe

0.049

425

Sami Hassan & Neel Hosamani

0.049