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:  

December 15, 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

76

Diya Venkataragavan

1.142

77

Julia Thomas

1.133

78

Roger Zhen

1.104

79

Kaden Buckner

1.100

80

Owen Gao

1.098

81

Nishan Vense

1.097

82

Sami Shapiro

1.091

83

Cathryn Wu

1.085

84

Emma Sobel

1.071

85

Vanessa Xu

1.058

86

Neel Aparanji

1.056

87

Gabriel Whangbo-Olvera

1.038

88

Adeena Naeem

1.032

89

Navid Sheybani

1.002

90

Stanley Liu

0.976

91

Taro Porschke

0.966

92

Lucas Chritah

0.963

93

Shrihan Thangam

0.953

94

Sreethan Karna

0.948

95

Jayden Park

0.942

96

Alexander Zhang

0.933

97

Tara Prem

0.924

98

Jeffery Wei

0.921

99

Cameron Buhl

0.920

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

3.102

2

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.949

3

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.919

4

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.877

5

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

6

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.588

7

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.559

8

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.523

9

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.428

10

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.427

11

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.344

12

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.297

13

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

14

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.156

15

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

16

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.114

17

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.082

18

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.076

19

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

2.045

20

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.017

21

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

22

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.971

23

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.951

24

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

1.933

25

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918