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

76

Pranav Narra

0.149

77

Owen Gao

0.149

78

Steven Chi

0.149

79

Kara Kang

0.149

80

Sameer Kandra

0.149

81

Emanuel Sasson

0.146

82

Santiago Jimenez

0.146

83

Anya Pathak

0.146

84

Austen Richardson

0.146

85

Saumya Katariya

0.146

86

Michelle Lee

0.143

87

Claire Witalec

0.140

88

Saraphina Zhao

0.137

89

Christina Brown

0.137

90

Wyatt Conner

0.134

91

Yifan Sheng

0.110

92

Elijah Yguado

0.107

93

Flynn Williams

0.065

94

Pearl Yu

0.060

95

James Young

0.060

96

Natalie Chen

0.058

97

Gauri Gupta

0.058

98

Sharvay Srivastava

0.058

99

Alexander Zhang

0.057

100

Lavi Avigad

0.056

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

276

Charles Knowles & Scarlett Gao

0.025

277

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

0.024

278

Adam Tsui & Ian Schulz

0.023

279

Larry Xie & Chaitanya Sana

0.023

280

Sriram Peddireddi & Josh Sumesh

0.023

281

Jennifer Liu & Sophie Yeh

0.023

282

Christina Huang & Jennifer Peng

0.022

283

Haodong Jiang & Harrish Ahilan

0.022

284

Ryan Chan & Avi sawhney

0.021

285

Aarav Kulshrestha & Eric Ye

0.019

286

Anabelle Han & Daphne Lee

0.019

287

Marcus Zhang & Haoming Jadon Yao

0.019

288

Luke Liu & Sreenidh Durisheti

0.019

289

Kavi Dugar & Nayan Patel

0.018

290

Joaquin Ochoa & Hugh Robinson

0.018

291

Thomas Scheinfeld & Tolga Ergin

0.018

292

Roan Plymale & Gunnar Wentz

0.018

293

Isabella Ricca & Avery Johnston

0.018

294

Ishha Sandhu & Richard Deng

0.017

295

Vihaan Gupta & Prahalad Dharma

0.017

296

Saitanmayee Ravilla & Ashrita Raj

0.017

297

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.016

298

Aarav Vashisht & Ahaan Sood

0.016

299

Terry Park & Jayden Tsai

0.016

300

Aditya Nerkar & Adhithya Jayamohan

0.016