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

176

Shreyas Dharani & Siddharth Tummala

0.252

177

Wenxuan Zhong & Lawrence Kuo

0.248

178

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

0.248

179

Caleb Kurlantzick & Kofi Hair-Ralston

0.248

180

Marvin Xi & Julia Pan

0.247

181

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

0.247

182

Nick Torres & Tyler Marcus

0.243

183

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

0.241

184

Tristan Mankovsky & William Shanmugam

0.240

185

Luke Liu & Sreenidh Durisheti

0.239

186

Pranay Kalra & Tyler MacColl

0.238

187

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.236

188

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.235

189

Rishi Pandhi & Baylen Shi

0.234

190

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

0.234

191

Alonso Ramirez & Connor Spaans

0.233

192

Olivia Yang & Maris Menenberg

0.232

193

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.232

194

Shriya Narasimhan & Mikaella Mishiev

0.229

195

Mitali Alurkar & Luke Santorsiero

0.229

196

Aidan Lee & Ian Lee

0.227

197

Ved Kusurkar & Jun-hyeok Moon

0.226

198

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.226

199

Xuanyu Dong & Leon Yang

0.226

200

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.223