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

201

Ethan Zhang & Claire Gao

0.222

202

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

0.220

203

Shravya Sethi & Diya Bidani

0.220

204

Leah Ben-Levi & Kaylee Da

0.220

205

Leo Cheng & Ayub Ahmed

0.219

206

Jacob Scherrer & Aman Thakur

0.217

207

Jenna He & Riya Sreeram

0.217

208

Sarayu Pasumarthi & Adya Balakrishnan

0.206

209

Vishesh Sood & Nirvi Baddela

0.206

210

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.205

211

Nakul Banka & Ayush Iyengar

0.204

212

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

0.204

213

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.202

214

Aashna Bhakkad & Zayd Mahmud

0.200

215

Gary Ayala & Eli Chen

0.196

216

Micah Tang & Alice Wang

0.195

217

Liam Findley & William Mastella

0.194

218

Noah Subhash & Jay Tamirisa

0.189

219

Nathan Hadi & Ian Ngo

0.185

220

Alex Somers & Antonio Rico

0.185

221

Sandhya Shankar & Gargi Garg

0.177

222

Kiyan Raisinghani & Anthony Yang

0.170

223

Julia Chenard & Brynn Sheehan

0.170

224

Emma Shim & Lucas Kwok

0.169

225

Carolina Pineda & Saphara Kelegama

0.163