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

51

Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

0.242

52

Taejun Kim

0.239

53

Veronica Zhang

0.237

54

Vincent Wang

0.234

55

Claire Sun

0.234

56

Carter Nelson

0.234

59

Aaron Choi

0.226

60

Alicia Zihenni

0.222

61

Sreethan Karna

0.177

62

Neel Aparanji

0.176

63

Chloe Ren

0.164

64

Advika Prakash

0.164

65

Craig O'Sullivan

0.161

67

Aalekh Arapalli

0.157

68

Naumika Naresh

0.155

69

Sarita Satynarayana

0.155

70

Cameron Buhl

0.155

71

Shiwen Huang

0.155

72

Victor Kang

0.152

73

Hayul (Ellie) Kim

0.152

74

Jasmine Shao

0.149

75

Shyam Muhunthan

0.149

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

226

Annie Meng & Myra Dang

0.036

227

Prajin Sankar & Krishna Volety

0.036

228

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

0.036

229

Saarth Korpe & Laura Cho

0.036

230

Advait Wankhede & Gautham Ramalingam

0.036

231

lillian walker & Tania Mulay

0.036

232

Evan Guo & Luella Zhang

0.035

233

Roy Zhao & Aayush Khadse

0.035

234

Annabel Greenberg & Ziyad Mattoo

0.035

235

Oliver Mak & Jacob Almedia-Batallas

0.035

236

Ted Park & Samuel Choi

0.035

237

Leanna Cai & Aidan Wong

0.035

238

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.034

239

Ryan Gell & Diego Gonzalez

0.034

240

Reza Ahmed & Kyle Wan

0.034

241

Meghana Mali & Sahasra Muccala

0.034

242

Pranay Kalra & Tyler MacColl

0.034

243

Kaylee Da & Dhruv Mohan

0.034

244

Lucy Borunda & Isabella Musolino

0.034

245

Tara Kandukuri & Adhrit Rai

0.034

246

Leo Cheng & Ayub Ahmed

0.034

247

Jacob Scherrer & Aman Thakur

0.034

248

Alex Du & James Zhou

0.033

249

Suna Sosseh & Rihaan Vora

0.033

250

Vishnu Kummariguntla & Milan Thacker

0.033