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

26

Lilly Stobo

1.262

27

Omar Obeidat

1.245

28

Nicolette Huff

1.231

29

Vihaan Patel

1.190

30

Grady Morris

1.186

31

Liam McDonald

1.184

32

Levin Ma

1.138

33

Roger Zhen

1.133

34

Kyson Bloomingdale

1.048

35

Michael Reola

1.031

36

Micah Byron-Smarra

1.022

37

Aaron Kuang

1.001

38

Zayn Charania

0.991

39

Stanley Liu

0.976

40

Shrihan Thangam

0.953

41

Lili Sella

0.945

42

Kylin Wu

0.924

43

Julia Thomas

0.895

44

Sophia Parang

0.887

45

Meera Shah

0.884

46

Alicia Zihenni

0.847

47

Taejun Kim

0.831

48

Adeena Naeem

0.822

50

Lucia Sanchez Gagerman

0.804

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

126

Kana Yee & Uraan Choudhury

0.384

127

Gavin Hui & Nishvith Sudhakar

0.384

128

Larkin Murray & Sienna Whitaker

0.383

129

Zidaan Barodawala & Adhiyan Karthikeyan

0.378

130

Rohin Saharoy & Raghav Shrivastava

0.377

131

Annika Subramanian & Neel Pande

0.376

132

Keerat Virdi & Rohan Deep

0.375

133

Krish Patel & Brian Sun

0.373

134

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

0.368

135

Alex Masella & Isabelle Chiang

0.367

136

Alexandra Kosloff & Jared Bart

0.361

137

lillian walker & Tania Mulay

0.359

138

Matthew Sadowski & Baker Brodlieb

0.354

139

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

0.344

140

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

0.341

141

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.339

142

Gabriel Oliveira & Kinaan Shraytah

0.339

143

Abhay Harika & Lillian Liang

0.336

144

Abigail Chung & Rhea Tyagi

0.336

145

Zaviyar Mujeeb & Taedus Nguyen

0.332

146

Niel Peddibhotla & Swapneil Bose

0.327

147

Colin Donovan & Preston Kyle

0.327

148

Vihaan Patel & Aadi Loonawat

0.319

149

Vishnu Kummariguntla & Milan Thacker

0.318

150

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.317