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 17, 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

176

Colin Xiang

0.499

177

Charlotte Dinerman

0.498

178

Ayaan Yakoob

0.493

179

Francesca Moreno

0.491

180

Sebastian Valladolid

0.490

181

William McLain

0.484

182

Trent Hedrick

0.481

183

Yifan Sheng

0.469

184

Sharvay Srivastava

0.467

185

Jaden Williams

0.459

186

Joseph Lijoy

0.457

187

Ali Naseem

0.457

188

Kiep Leon

0.455

189

Wyatt Conner

0.455

190

Dannick Nzimi

0.445

191

Audrey Eckert

0.445

192

Sarah Meisel

0.438

193

Pranav Narra

0.437

194

Abigail Miller

0.430

195

Christopher Shin

0.425

196

Albert Cai

0.420

197

Saanvi Mittal

0.413

198

Shyam Muhunthan

0.407

199

Alisha Kim

0.405

200

Plamen Checketts

0.402

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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

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

2.523

10

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.428

11

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.427

12

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.344

13

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.297

14

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

15

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.156

16

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

17

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.114

18

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.082

19

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.076

20

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

2.045

21

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.017

22

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

23

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.971

24

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.951

25

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

1.933