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

151

Preston Mallett

0.250

152

Dalton Ngo

0.250

153

Aiden Kwon

0.249

154

Jacob Waxman

0.248

155

Wyatt Conner

0.246

156

Nilesh Mudupalli

0.246

157

Jacob Brace

0.245

158

Jonah Kim

0.245

159

Sebastian Engle

0.244

160

Ayeshwarya Sisodia

0.243

161

Nishan Vense

0.242

162

Michael Meng

0.242

163

Santiago Jimenez

0.241

164

Saumya Katariya

0.241

165

Emanuel Sasson

0.240

166

Ishaan Dhillon-Patel

0.235

167

Carter Nelson

0.234

168

Samuel Rubinstein

0.233

169

Tara Prem

0.233

170

Melissa Khadivi

0.233

171

Gabrielle Torrence

0.232

172

Christopher Cheng

0.231

173

Saraphina Zhao

0.228

174

Shyam Muhunthan

0.225

175

Saanvi Mittal

0.223

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

276

Justina Hoshovsky & Hansh Dondapati

0.130

277

Yuvika Rao & Claire Leo

0.129

278

Daniel Ibraev & Arnab Karanjit

0.128

279

Terrence Mower & Jacob Yang

0.127

280

Alex Cai & Emily Mei

0.127

281

Ian Xu & Tam Bao Tran

0.127

282

Ashwin Raghav & Abhigyan Mishra

0.127

283

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

0.127

284

Taiwen Feng & William Zhou

0.126

285

Kerem Celiktas & Lefan Wang

0.124

286

Thanish Lankella & Henry Riley

0.124

287

Kayla Kelberg-Gross & Eliana Kelberg-Gross

0.123

288

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

0.121

289

Jiayue Zou & Noelle Kim

0.121

290

Vihan Revagad & Nicole Lee

0.120

291

Gia Jhaveri & Amrita Dhillon

0.119

292

Matthew Jumalon & Shayan Hasan

0.119

293

Camila Dunn & Taedus Nguyen

0.119

294

Anya Parssinen & Erin Smearman

0.119

295

Hailey Ko & Sanaya Jhaveri

0.119

296

Ziyuan Gao & Rachel Tat

0.118

297

Nadav Yaakobi & Lily Sawyer

0.118

298

Raj Awasthi & Rishik Shenolikar

0.118

299

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

0.117

300

Akash Thomas & Zahin Kapoor

0.116