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

201

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

0.041

202

Katelyn Ye & Claire Gu

0.041

203

Hardik Garg & Cody Gao

0.041

204

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

0.040

205

Grace Crunk & Grayson Zeigler

0.040

206

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

0.040

207

Atharv Mehendale & Steven Fedorov

0.039

208

Akash Thomas & Zahin Kapoor

0.039

209

Jiayue Zou & Noelle Kim

0.039

210

De-An Chen & Jack Gao

0.039

211

Bani Patel & Aryanna Mody

0.039

212

Manan Gupta & Vishwa Vijay

0.038

213

JayJay Deng & Vishaka Padmanabhan

0.038

214

Angelyne Pham & Taarika Sethee

0.038

215

Kanav Puri & Adhiyan Karthikeyan

0.038

216

Ayana Baul & Aarna Parikh

0.038

217

Ethan Cui & Nathan Chu

0.038

218

William Long & Sisi Holden

0.037

219

Yuvika Rao & Claire Leo

0.037

220

Youlan Wang & Jed Kim

0.037

221

Ibrahim Abudagga & Vivaan Dudeja

0.037

222

Arjun Mahajan & Dharshan Vijayakumar

0.037

223

Saivi Sodhi & Rishik Sodhi

0.037

224

Vishesh Sood & Daniel Li

0.036

225

Augustus Schalk & Jonah Dashnaw

0.036