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

401

Zijia Mo & Ava Fiala

0.050

402

Suvas Sureneni & Iniyan Gokulkumar

0.050

403

Chloe Zou & Eva Averin

0.050

404

Chelsea Guo & Nisha Nandy

0.050

405

Maddie Lee & Adi Gupta

0.050

406

Benjamin Yarden & Eric Liu

0.050

407

Joy Shen & Evan Lee

0.050

408

Aditya Mathur & Lucas Lo

0.050

409

Neev Paul & Isaac Hong

0.050

410

Jackson Zarro & Sara Borkar

0.050

411

Arib Naqvi & Kabir Gandhi

0.050

412

Liz Haile & Jasmine Khalifa

0.050

413

Reuben Mackler & Nathan Brawner

0.049

414

Kaeden Najafian & Jua Yi

0.049

415

Surya Nookala & Felix Xu

0.049

416

Varun Venkateswaran & Wes Krikorian

0.049

417

Avi Saraf & Koby Shnekendorf

0.049

418

H.t. Xue & Teddy Choe

0.049

419

Christopher Tang & Cooper Li

0.049

420

Naitik Narang & Tulasi Bonda

0.049

421

Iris Zhu & Henry Chen

0.049

422

Jack Logue & Emily Zhang

0.049

423

Clementine Birnbaum & Francis Harmon

0.049

424

Sana Kashyap & Kana Watanabe

0.049

425

Sami Hassan & Neel Hosamani

0.049