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

101

Winston Chou

0.056

102

Chloe Zhou

0.056

104

Matthew Wang

0.056

105

Mason Cavallo

0.056

106

Shivansh Sathya

0.056

107

Graham Paul

0.056

108

Ayushi Thakur

0.056

109

Eesha Gunukula

0.055

110

Max Feinsten

0.055

111

Serena Blutter

0.055

112

William McLain

0.055

113

Jad Vicente

0.055

114

Nathan Wu

0.055

115

Kiep Leon

0.055

116

Siddharth Vedam

0.055

117

Bella Ma

0.055

118

Gabe Koh

0.055

119

Winston Rocque

0.055

120

Ibraheem Mushtaq

0.055

121

Aarini Chadha

0.054

122

Claire Zhou

0.054

123

Noah Perry

0.054

124

Thanvi Voruganti

0.054

125

Zoe Fulay

0.054

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

51

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

0.242

52

Gavin Hui & Nishvith Sudhakar

0.240

53

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

0.239

54

Advik Sateeja & Matthew Li

0.238

55

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

0.235

56

Rishi Pandhi & Baylen Shi

0.234

57

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

0.234

58

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

0.230

59

Ved Kusurkar & Jun-hyeok Moon

0.226

60

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.226

61

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

0.226

62

Vismay Avadhani & Samyak Duggirala

0.222

63

Ethan Zhang & Claire Gao

0.222

64

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

0.222

65

Emmy Mason & Beau McDowell

0.218

66

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

0.214

67

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

0.211

69

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

0.204

70

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

0.203

71

Collin Barbat & Martin Juncaj

0.198

72

Gary Ayala & Eli Chen

0.196

73

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

0.181

74

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.180

75

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

0.172