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

101

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

0.473

102

Rinesh Sunthar & Vijay Nagarajan

0.469

103

Emily Park & Michael Ji

0.466

104

Baylen Shi & Roha Rupareliya

0.454

105

Afra Miao & Darshan Chidambaram

0.448

106

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

0.446

107

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

0.444

108

Rishaan Reddy & Zaviyar Mujeeb

0.434

109

Thomas Mastella & Grayson Zeigler

0.434

110

Zaid Anwar & Nolan Samuels

0.432

111

Leyla Nurullayeva & Zaara Katyal

0.431

112

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

0.428

113

Anuraa Venkat & Aanya Mohta

0.419

114

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

0.419

115

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

0.414

116

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

0.407

117

Kamran Paksima & Kevin Cheng

0.405

118

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397

119

Eleri Davies & Iris Liang

0.395

120

Tony Liu & Akash Meka

0.393

121

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

0.388

122

Willow Tham & Mahati Mudgal

0.387

123

Allyson Lingo & Christopher Lin

0.385

124

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

0.385

125

Saashiv Gupta & Sahi Popuri

0.384