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

301

Jaeyoon Lee & Ivy Zhang

0.016

302

Yunyao Zhu & Shulin Lu

0.016

303

Catherine Du & Juliana Wang

0.016

304

Ailey Nguyen & Mia Xu

0.016

305

Kaitlyn Zhang & Aniruddh Dayananda

0.016

306

Klea Rucaj & Shivank Shailesh

0.016

307

Yuma Atherton & Leo Potere

0.015

308

Crystal Chen & Jessica Ma

0.015

309

Elizabeth Williams & Evelyn Noel

0.014

310

Maya Malka & Jake Szapiro

0.013

311

Liam Findley & Ryan Baldwin

0.012

312

Benji Wojin & Harry McLaughlin

0.011

313

Rishabh Rangaraju & Pranvat Raina

0.002

314

Faiza MohamedA & Srinika Narayanan

0.002

315

Ian Kim & Stanley Hu

0.000

316

Sai Kandukuri & Nathan Jerin

0.000

317

Shiri Pasman & Vinnie Leem

0.000

318

Zixing Zhou & Xavier Williams

0.000

319

Ansh Khurana & Arnav Nagireddy

0.000

320

Hannah Wang & Mia Cadenillas Bedoya

0.000

321

Kethan Neginhal & Dashiell Carey-Squire

0.000

322

Mason Papazian & Emilio Rodriguez-Holloway-Mechal-Bellucci

0.000

323

Isabella Pedroni Spinola & Jayden Jean-Baptiste

0.000

324

Andy Allocco & Julia Ma

0.000

325

William Pringle & Tom Bradford

0.000