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

276

Michelle Pan

0.101

277

Sharvay Srivastava

0.101

278

Joseph Lijoy

0.100

279

Devansh Karavati

0.100

280

Feliciano Serrano

0.098

281

Yiyi Sun

0.098

282

Aarya Patel

0.097

283

Daena Kim

0.097

284

Yuhan Hu

0.097

285

Joy Wei

0.095

286

Ranbeer Arora

0.094

287

Esther Pritsker

0.094

288

Amiri Stiggers

0.092

289

Ketan Nallamshetty

0.091

290

Rachel Stein

0.089

291

Wareesha Islam

0.088

292

NagaVikhyath Malineni

0.087

293

Shiva Sambandam

0.086

294

Harly Liu

0.085

296

Sophie Weiss

0.084

297

Evan Lee

0.083

298

Jiayu Tang

0.083

299

Nusaybah Arif

0.083

300

Diya Yadav

0.082

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.657

2

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.068

3

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

1.959

4

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.942

5

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

1.933

6

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

1.907

7

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.868

8

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

1.785

9

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

1.680

10

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

1.602

11

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

1.601

12

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

1.532

13

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

1.496

14

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

1.463

15

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

1.440

16

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

1.431

17

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

1.375

18

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

1.353

19

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

1.330

20

Gavin Zhao & Hoiyuen (Kevin) Chen

1.311

21

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

1.308

22

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

1.290

23

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

1.279

24

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.271

25

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

1.216