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

151

Samarth Gaggar

0.050

152

Arjun Gupta

0.050

153

Payton Pan

0.050

154

Charles Wang

0.050

155

Adam Wayne

0.050

156

Kevin Zhang

0.050

157

Aarav Bollini

0.050

159

Vivaan Shahani

0.048

160

Avigail Wus

0.046

161

Aryan Rao John

0.043

162

Kellan Lynn

0.041

163

Sebastian Engle

0.040

164

Jacob Brace

0.040

165

Angeline Su

0.039

166

Mark Yu

0.039

167

Chupeng Gui

0.038

168

Changze Song

0.038

169

Sami Haddadin

0.038

170

Anna Dong

0.037

171

Michael Guffin

0.036

172

Mason Sterling

0.036

173

NagaVikhyath Malineni

0.036

174

Olivia Lu

0.036

175

Feliciano Serrano

0.036

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

26

Anthony Lee & Veer Parmar

0.361

27

Kai Pehkonen & Benjamin Grabel

0.357

28

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

0.352

29

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

0.349

30

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

0.324

31

Vihaan Patel & Aadi Loonawat

0.319

32

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.314

33

Sisy Aung & Austin Bate Agborsangaya

0.314

34

Victor Lock & Andrew Scheufele

0.310

35

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

0.308

36

Bhargav Malyala & Akshayan Arasan

0.308

37

Charan Pyloore & Anya Hira

0.308

38

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

0.305

39

Wyatt Greenberg & Brayden Zhao

0.302

40

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

0.298

41

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

0.289

42

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

0.285

43

Cady Wu & Rishi Ramaswamy

0.285

44

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

0.279

45

Grace Yan & Mei Kumaran

0.278

46

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

0.277

47

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

0.266

48

Rohin Saharoy & Raghav Shrivastava

0.246

49

Kamran Paksima & Kevin Cheng

0.242

50

Leo Fan & Daven Kella

0.242