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

51

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

0.242

52

Gavin Hui & Nishvith Sudhakar

0.240

53

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

0.239

54

Advik Sateeja & Matthew Li

0.238

55

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

0.235

56

Rishi Pandhi & Baylen Shi

0.234

57

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

0.234

58

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

0.230

59

Ved Kusurkar & Jun-hyeok Moon

0.226

60

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.226

61

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

0.226

62

Vismay Avadhani & Samyak Duggirala

0.222

63

Ethan Zhang & Claire Gao

0.222

64

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

0.222

65

Emmy Mason & Beau McDowell

0.218

66

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

0.214

67

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

0.211

69

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

0.204

70

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

0.203

71

Collin Barbat & Martin Juncaj

0.198

72

Gary Ayala & Eli Chen

0.196

73

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

0.181

74

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.180

75

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

0.172