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.

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
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

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
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