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

251

Anish Misro & Siheon Kim

0.033

252

Pooja Sankar & Jinaan Al-Sulaihim

0.033

253

Elena Lin & Adrika Pathak Mehta

0.033

254

Ashton Kallabat & Matheus Pinto

0.033

255

Conor Boscardin & Silas Zedlewski

0.033

256

Patrick Feagan & Aurora McVicker

0.033

257

Jad Zraiqat & Ivy Lu

0.033

258

reyansh Julakanti & Tyler Huynh

0.033

259

Rosie Liu & Abby Cai

0.033

260

Saachi Thomas & Nhoor Sandhu

0.033

261

Disha Gupta & Vanisha Waikul

0.033

262

Denis Biju & Neel Sisodiya

0.032

263

Makayla Chang & Evan Huang

0.032

264

Nick Tong & Jian Ayromloo

0.032

265

Ronav Shah & Adi Arora

0.031

266

Anya Telang & Ishita Harish

0.031

267

Neel Kamath & Athrav Tripathi

0.031

268

Ira Bagga & Lisa Kim

0.031

269

Ray Sun & Austin She

0.030

270

Adelyn Nu & Shreya Veerubhotla

0.030

271

Eric Li & Aarin Sasspal

0.030

272

Ian Chang & Wilson Yao

0.030

273

Aditya Venkatachalam & Ishan Saha

0.030

274

Neel Gupta & Connor Li

0.026

275

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

0.025