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

176

Rushil Rana & Taedus Nguyen

0.051

177

Suvas Sureneni & Iniyan Gokulkumar

0.050

178

Christine Zhong & Novella Vittorio

0.050

179

Shriya Narasimhan & Mikaella Mishiev

0.050

180

Jackson Zarro & Sara Borkar

0.050

181

Arib Naqvi & Kabir Gandhi

0.050

182

Liz Haile & Jasmine Khalifa

0.050

183

Chloe Deng & Iris Chisholm

0.050

184

Daniel Ibraev & Arnab Karanjit

0.050

185

Jillian Gilbertson & Keeley Richardson

0.048

186

Weian Yu & Loren Tan

0.048

187

Emma Song & Sophie Lu

0.048

188

Emmanuel Peter & Sahaj Madaan

0.047

189

Ayat Jaffar & Asal Mohammadi

0.047

190

Jarrett Kelley & Dylan Rolle

0.047

191

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

0.045

192

Ziyuan Gao & Rachel Tat

0.045

193

Peishi Yu & Elizabeth Chung

0.045

194

Sharat Sakamuri & Daniel Li

0.044

195

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

0.043

196

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.043

197

Kathy Xu & Chloe Hu

0.042

198

Jacob Hallisey & Sam Lam

0.042

199

Lana Dandekar & Rhea Iyengar

0.042

200

William Mastella & Nicholas Powell

0.041