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

151

Preston Mallett

0.250

152

Dalton Ngo

0.250

153

Aiden Kwon

0.249

154

Jacob Waxman

0.248

155

Wyatt Conner

0.246

156

Nilesh Mudupalli

0.246

157

Jacob Brace

0.245

158

Jonah Kim

0.245

159

Sebastian Engle

0.244

160

Ayeshwarya Sisodia

0.243

161

Nishan Vense

0.242

162

Michael Meng

0.242

163

Santiago Jimenez

0.241

164

Saumya Katariya

0.241

165

Emanuel Sasson

0.240

166

Ishaan Dhillon-Patel

0.235

167

Carter Nelson

0.234

168

Samuel Rubinstein

0.233

169

Tara Prem

0.233

170

Melissa Khadivi

0.233

171

Gabrielle Torrence

0.232

172

Christopher Cheng

0.231

173

Saraphina Zhao

0.228

174

Shyam Muhunthan

0.225

175

Saanvi Mittal

0.223

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

301

Evan Guo & Luella Zhang

0.116

302

Emma Song & Sophie Lu

0.116

303

Scott Sterenberg & Angela Grant

0.116

304

Manan Gupta & Vishwa Vijay

0.116

305

Graham Turk & Ike Turk

0.115

306

Mackenzie Larson & Anika Narayanan

0.114

307

Sattina Mendonca & Methulia Medage

0.114

308

Manasi Avdhani & Ayati Yadav

0.112

309

James Davis & Soham Srinivas

0.112

310

Larry Xie & Chaitanya Sana

0.111

311

Julian Bernhoft & Sanaa Ram

0.111

312

Bani Patel & Aryanna Mody

0.110

313

Giacomo Chinoy & Caleb Gold

0.109

314

Helen Yang & Cindy Qiu

0.109

315

Alexandra Silakov & Zachary Massim

0.109

316

Aarav Jamdar & James Yu

0.108

317

Christine Zhong & Novella Vittorio

0.108

318

Arianna Hanes & Cybele Pirok

0.108

319

Mahika Goswami & Arjun Mamidi

0.107

320

Rosie Liu & Abby Cai

0.107

321

Disha Gupta & Vanisha Waikul

0.107

322

Claire Shim & Ryley Chen

0.104

323

William Mastella & Nicholas Powell

0.102

324

Jad Zraiqat & Ivy Lu

0.098

325

Zach Gao & Mick Ziv Petreanu

0.096