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

126

Matthew Pascutti & Jacob Auerbach

0.058

127

Karthik Uppalapati & Leana Paradkar

0.058

128

Krish Patel & Brian Sun

0.058

129

Yixuan Zhao & Noha Bezuayehu

0.056

130

Chloe Meredith & Ava Mehta

0.056

131

Evan Hernandez & Granville Lee

0.056

132

Daniel Zhang & Timothy Volkov

0.056

133

Winston Cai & Ayaan Mohapatra

0.056

134

Leyla Nurullayeva & Zaara Katyal

0.056

135

Ngawang Namgyal & Odessa MuA+-oz

0.056

136

Matthew Sadowski & Baker Brodlieb

0.056

137

Ginevra Voltolina & Joseph Holland

0.056

138

Rahul Iyengar & Blake Miller

0.055

139

Taiwen Feng & William Zhou

0.055

140

Eloise Snodgrass & Sophia Rodriguez

0.055

141

Kana Yee & Uraan Choudhury

0.055

142

Sophia Xiong & Diya Bhootra

0.055

143

Lucas Shang & Ethan Ebbin

0.054

144

Silas Gordon & Aarosh Das

0.054

145

Ezra McCullers & Asa Hein-Martin

0.054

146

Aidan Hosler & Remy Sardar

0.054

147

Mansi Bansal & Nikki Shah

0.054

148

Zoya Jamal & Bhargavi Mallajosyula

0.054

149

Leo Leger & Daniel Naor

0.054

150

Amelia Liu & Sophie Hao

0.054