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:  

September 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

27

Andy Mezgravis-Miani

0.321

28

Vihaan Patel

0.319

29

Allison Liu

0.319

30

Sahaj Chahal

0.318

31

Jayden Park

0.310

32

Noah Arthur

0.308

33

Adeena Naeem

0.308

34

Diya Venkataragavan

0.305

35

Mina Hu

0.302

36

Stanley Liu

0.302

37

Riley Powell

0.300

38

Julia Thomas

0.296

39

Kaison Maruyama

0.296

41

Lilly Stobo

0.291

42

Vanessa Xu

0.291

43

Luka Mishchenko

0.291

44

Lori Li

0.285

45

Adeleine Choi

0.285

46

Roger Zhen

0.262

47

Ruby Simon

0.252

48

Preston Mallett

0.250

49

Daniel Baek

0.246

50

Faisal Hamzeh

0.246

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

26

Anthony Lee & Veer Parmar

0.361

27

Kai Pehkonen & Benjamin Grabel

0.357

28

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

0.352

29

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

0.349

30

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

0.324

31

Vihaan Patel & Aadi Loonawat

0.319

32

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.314

33

Sisy Aung & Austin Bate Agborsangaya

0.314

34

Victor Lock & Andrew Scheufele

0.310

35

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

0.308

36

Bhargav Malyala & Akshayan Arasan

0.308

37

Charan Pyloore & Anya Hira

0.308

38

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

0.305

39

Wyatt Greenberg & Brayden Zhao

0.302

40

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

0.298

41

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

0.289

42

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

0.285

43

Cady Wu & Rishi Ramaswamy

0.285

44

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

0.279

45

Grace Yan & Mei Kumaran

0.278

46

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

0.277

47

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

0.266

48

Rohin Saharoy & Raghav Shrivastava

0.246

49

Kamran Paksima & Kevin Cheng

0.242

50

Leo Fan & Daven Kella

0.242