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

276

Charles Knowles & Scarlett Gao

0.025

277

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

0.024

278

Adam Tsui & Ian Schulz

0.023

279

Larry Xie & Chaitanya Sana

0.023

280

Sriram Peddireddi & Josh Sumesh

0.023

281

Jennifer Liu & Sophie Yeh

0.023

282

Christina Huang & Jennifer Peng

0.022

283

Haodong Jiang & Harrish Ahilan

0.022

284

Ryan Chan & Avi sawhney

0.021

285

Aarav Kulshrestha & Eric Ye

0.019

286

Anabelle Han & Daphne Lee

0.019

287

Marcus Zhang & Haoming Jadon Yao

0.019

288

Luke Liu & Sreenidh Durisheti

0.019

289

Kavi Dugar & Nayan Patel

0.018

290

Joaquin Ochoa & Hugh Robinson

0.018

291

Thomas Scheinfeld & Tolga Ergin

0.018

292

Roan Plymale & Gunnar Wentz

0.018

293

Isabella Ricca & Avery Johnston

0.018

294

Ishha Sandhu & Richard Deng

0.017

295

Vihaan Gupta & Prahalad Dharma

0.017

296

Saitanmayee Ravilla & Ashrita Raj

0.017

297

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.016

298

Aarav Vashisht & Ahaan Sood

0.016

299

Terry Park & Jayden Tsai

0.016

300

Aditya Nerkar & Adhithya Jayamohan

0.016