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

126

Aditya Carter

0.054

127

Evelyn Turner

0.054

128

Saanvi Mittal

0.054

129

Joselyn Coon

0.053

131

Richard Yi

0.052

132

Andrew Kommu

0.052

133

Maura Stickle

0.052

134

Atharv Gandhi

0.052

135

Jordan Blake

0.052

136

Kevin Iwanski

0.052

137

Isaac Neumann

0.052

138

Jaden Williams

0.052

139

Ketan Nallamshetty

0.052

140

Jonah Kim

0.052

141

Wareesha Islam

0.051

142

David Gussmann

0.051

143

Taro Porschke

0.051

144

Liam McDonald

0.051

145

Claire Au

0.051

146

Saharsh Madullapalli

0.051

147

Diane Allain-Tereshchenko

0.050

148

Ayeshwarya Sisodia

0.050

149

Jacob Waxman

0.050

150

Ben Miyares

0.050

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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