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

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