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

201

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

0.041

202

Katelyn Ye & Claire Gu

0.041

203

Hardik Garg & Cody Gao

0.041

204

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

0.040

205

Grace Crunk & Grayson Zeigler

0.040

206

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

0.040

207

Atharv Mehendale & Steven Fedorov

0.039

208

Akash Thomas & Zahin Kapoor

0.039

209

Jiayue Zou & Noelle Kim

0.039

210

De-An Chen & Jack Gao

0.039

211

Bani Patel & Aryanna Mody

0.039

212

Manan Gupta & Vishwa Vijay

0.038

213

JayJay Deng & Vishaka Padmanabhan

0.038

214

Angelyne Pham & Taarika Sethee

0.038

215

Kanav Puri & Adhiyan Karthikeyan

0.038

216

Ayana Baul & Aarna Parikh

0.038

217

Ethan Cui & Nathan Chu

0.038

218

William Long & Sisi Holden

0.037

219

Yuvika Rao & Claire Leo

0.037

220

Youlan Wang & Jed Kim

0.037

221

Ibrahim Abudagga & Vivaan Dudeja

0.037

222

Arjun Mahajan & Dharshan Vijayakumar

0.037

223

Saivi Sodhi & Rishik Sodhi

0.037

224

Vishesh Sood & Daniel Li

0.036

225

Augustus Schalk & Jonah Dashnaw

0.036