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

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