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

229

Manasvini Chava

0.017

230

Aadyant Rajan

0.017

231

Armaan Motwani

0.016

232

Emil Sony

0.016

233

Haran Anand

0.016

234

Anirudh Balaji

0.016

235

Tara Balaji

0.016

236

Aaditya Shah

0.016

237

Ezekiel Liberty

0.016

238

Sam Williams

0.016

240

Owen Giberman

0.015

241

Oliver Wong

0.015

242

Paige Bianchini

0.015

244

Garrett Smith

0.015

245

Maria Annie Domingues

0.014

246

Grant Young

0.002

247

Jesse Hayes

0.000

248

Giuliana Palmisano

0.000

249

Ryan Peng

0.000

250

Minjoo Kwak

0.000

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

0.858

2

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

0.830

3

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

0.739

4

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

0.710

5

Ben Rask & Connor Chun

0.676

6

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

0.633

7

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

0.624

8

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.535

9

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

0.528

10

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

0.509

11

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

0.506

12

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

0.498

13

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

0.475

14

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

0.461

15

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

0.428

16

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

0.426

17

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

0.417

18

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

0.405

19

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397

20

Tony Liu & Akash Meka

0.393

21

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

0.391

22

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

0.389

23

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

0.383

24

Leon Le & Alice Luo

0.373

25

Natalie Milik & Arya Seth

0.369