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

301

Jaeyoon Lee & Ivy Zhang

0.016

302

Yunyao Zhu & Shulin Lu

0.016

303

Catherine Du & Juliana Wang

0.016

304

Ailey Nguyen & Mia Xu

0.016

305

Kaitlyn Zhang & Aniruddh Dayananda

0.016

306

Klea Rucaj & Shivank Shailesh

0.016

307

Yuma Atherton & Leo Potere

0.015

308

Crystal Chen & Jessica Ma

0.015

309

Elizabeth Williams & Evelyn Noel

0.014

310

Maya Malka & Jake Szapiro

0.013

311

Liam Findley & Ryan Baldwin

0.012

312

Benji Wojin & Harry McLaughlin

0.011

313

Rishabh Rangaraju & Pranvat Raina

0.002

314

Faiza MohamedA & Srinika Narayanan

0.002

315

Ian Kim & Stanley Hu

0.000

316

Sai Kandukuri & Nathan Jerin

0.000

317

Shiri Pasman & Vinnie Leem

0.000

318

Zixing Zhou & Xavier Williams

0.000

319

Ansh Khurana & Arnav Nagireddy

0.000

320

Hannah Wang & Mia Cadenillas Bedoya

0.000

321

Kethan Neginhal & Dashiell Carey-Squire

0.000

322

Mason Papazian & Emilio Rodriguez-Holloway-Mechal-Bellucci

0.000

323

Isabella Pedroni Spinola & Jayden Jean-Baptiste

0.000

324

Andy Allocco & Julia Ma

0.000

325

William Pringle & Tom Bradford

0.000