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

101

Jayden Liu & Aditya Mukker

0.149

102

Ansh Shamdasani & Ishaan Gokaraju

0.149

103

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

0.146

104

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

0.146

105

Tanvee Tirthapura & Sanyukta Ravishankar

0.146

106

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

0.146

107

Hunter Patel & Sean Au-Yeung

0.146

108

Avinash Gajjar & Vishnu Vasudeva

0.143

109

Gia Jhaveri & Amanda Lee

0.137

110

Tristan Mankovsky & William Shanmugam

0.124

111

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.111

112

Etienne Yang & Chiara D'agostino

0.109

113

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

0.109

114

Mahika Goswami & Arjun Mamidi

0.107

115

Audrianna Honda & Valeria Kislyansky

0.067

116

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

0.063

117

Larkin Murray & Sienna Whitaker

0.062

118

Saashiv Gupta & Sahi Popuri

0.061

119

Tanuj Karthikeyan & Richard Shan

0.060

120

Marvin Xi & Julia Pan

0.060

121

Rinesh Sunthar & Vijay Nagarajan

0.059

122

Brandon Kim & Julian Song

0.058

123

Ethan Zheng & Aaron Burke

0.058

124

Vinay Sant & Dhanush Tella

0.058

125

Isaac Hobbs & Isabella Lore

0.058