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

402

Angie Chao

0.035

403

Chris Wang

0.035

404

Sarah Cruser

0.035

405

Darwin Collins

0.035

406

Neel Shrivastava

0.035

407

Andrew Kim

0.034

408

Anirudh Vellala

0.034

409

Leo Yadav

0.034

410

Cynwonthia Poon

0.034

411

Krishiv Goswami

0.034

412

Shanlee Raimer

0.034

413

Maren Marshall

0.034

414

audrey lohara

0.034

415

Plamen Checketts

0.033

416

Sanya Tarique

0.033

417

Siddharth Lagisetty

0.033

418

Angela Lu

0.033

419

Priya Shah

0.033

420

Jagguth Gutti

0.032

421

Erin Johnson

0.032

422

Aashrith Korampally

0.032

423

Rithwik Nair

0.032

424

Henry Beveridge

0.032

425

Kieran Finnegan

0.031

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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