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

301

Alisha Kim

0.082

302

Camille Johns

0.081

304

Madelyn Hyde

0.081

305

Manya Vattikuti

0.080

306

Madeleine De Leon-Wagner

0.079

307

Aadhya Mamillapalli

0.078

308

Rohan Boonapalli

0.076

310

Maris Vega

0.066

311

Ella Layton

0.066

312

Judah Carpenter

0.063

313

Srihan Yerram

0.062

314

Paige Bianchini

0.059

315

Albert Cai

0.059

316

Karenna Mehta

0.059

318

Matthew Wang

0.056

319

Esther Goldman

0.056

320

Shivansh Sathya

0.056

321

Eesha Gunukula

0.055

322

Max Feinsten

0.055

323

Serena Blutter

0.055

324

William McLain

0.055

325

Nathan Wu

0.055

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

301

Evan Guo & Luella Zhang

0.116

302

Emma Song & Sophie Lu

0.116

303

Scott Sterenberg & Angela Grant

0.116

304

Manan Gupta & Vishwa Vijay

0.116

305

Graham Turk & Ike Turk

0.115

306

Mackenzie Larson & Anika Narayanan

0.114

307

Sattina Mendonca & Methulia Medage

0.114

308

Manasi Avdhani & Ayati Yadav

0.112

309

James Davis & Soham Srinivas

0.112

310

Larry Xie & Chaitanya Sana

0.111

311

Julian Bernhoft & Sanaa Ram

0.111

312

Bani Patel & Aryanna Mody

0.110

313

Giacomo Chinoy & Caleb Gold

0.109

314

Helen Yang & Cindy Qiu

0.109

315

Alexandra Silakov & Zachary Massim

0.109

316

Aarav Jamdar & James Yu

0.108

317

Christine Zhong & Novella Vittorio

0.108

318

Arianna Hanes & Cybele Pirok

0.108

319

Mahika Goswami & Arjun Mamidi

0.107

320

Rosie Liu & Abby Cai

0.107

321

Disha Gupta & Vanisha Waikul

0.107

322

Claire Shim & Ryley Chen

0.104

323

William Mastella & Nicholas Powell

0.102

324

Jad Zraiqat & Ivy Lu

0.098

325

Zach Gao & Mick Ziv Petreanu

0.096