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:  

October 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

301

Alisha Kim

0.082

302

Camille Johns

0.081

304

Madelyn Hyde

0.081

305

Manya Vattikuti

0.080

306

Madeleine De Leon-Wagner

0.079

307

Aadhya Mamillapalli

0.078

308

Rohan Boonapalli

0.076

310

Maris Vega

0.066

311

Ella Layton

0.066

312

Judah Carpenter

0.063

313

Srihan Yerram

0.062

314

Paige Bianchini

0.059

315

Albert Cai

0.059

316

Karenna Mehta

0.059

318

Matthew Wang

0.056

319

Esther Goldman

0.056

320

Shivansh Sathya

0.056

321

Eesha Gunukula

0.055

322

Max Feinsten

0.055

323

Serena Blutter

0.055

324

William McLain

0.055

325

Nathan Wu

0.055

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

176

Shreyas Dharani & Siddharth Tummala

0.252

177

Wenxuan Zhong & Lawrence Kuo

0.248

178

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

0.248

179

Caleb Kurlantzick & Kofi Hair-Ralston

0.248

180

Marvin Xi & Julia Pan

0.247

181

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

0.247

182

Nick Torres & Tyler Marcus

0.243

183

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

0.241

184

Tristan Mankovsky & William Shanmugam

0.240

185

Luke Liu & Sreenidh Durisheti

0.239

186

Pranay Kalra & Tyler MacColl

0.238

187

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.236

188

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.235

189

Rishi Pandhi & Baylen Shi

0.234

190

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

0.234

191

Alonso Ramirez & Connor Spaans

0.233

192

Olivia Yang & Maris Menenberg

0.232

193

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.232

194

Shriya Narasimhan & Mikaella Mishiev

0.229

195

Mitali Alurkar & Luke Santorsiero

0.229

196

Aidan Lee & Ian Lee

0.227

197

Ved Kusurkar & Jun-hyeok Moon

0.226

198

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.226

199

Xuanyu Dong & Leon Yang

0.226

200

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.223