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

276

Michelle Pan

0.101

277

Sharvay Srivastava

0.101

278

Joseph Lijoy

0.100

279

Devansh Karavati

0.100

280

Feliciano Serrano

0.098

281

Yiyi Sun

0.098

282

Aarya Patel

0.097

283

Daena Kim

0.097

284

Yuhan Hu

0.097

285

Joy Wei

0.095

286

Ranbeer Arora

0.094

287

Esther Pritsker

0.094

288

Amiri Stiggers

0.092

289

Ketan Nallamshetty

0.091

290

Rachel Stein

0.089

291

Wareesha Islam

0.088

292

NagaVikhyath Malineni

0.087

293

Shiva Sambandam

0.086

294

Harly Liu

0.085

296

Sophie Weiss

0.084

297

Evan Lee

0.083

298

Jiayu Tang

0.083

299

Nusaybah Arif

0.083

300

Diya Yadav

0.082

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

376

Haodong Jiang & Harrish Ahilan

0.053

377

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

0.053

378

Atticus Jackson & Tade Petrosyan

0.053

379

Tanisi Sahai & Richard Ma

0.053

380

Angelina Tang & Eileen Wu

0.053

381

Monteserrat Corona & Ryan Jiang

0.053

382

Edward Min & Kyle Oh

0.053

383

Michael Wong & Siyu Wang

0.052

384

Shreyansh Vatsa & Ethan Ebbin

0.052

385

Audrey Ren & Ryley Chen

0.052

386

Jonah Kleinman & Alex Belman

0.052

387

Sophia Zhao & Aayush Kalmadi

0.052

388

Zoe Yeh & Jacqueline Urena-Bernabel

0.052

389

Raina Wang & Dara Park

0.052

390

Nathan Acharya & Arnav Jain

0.052

391

Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

0.051

392

Chris Daniel & Sophia Curtis

0.051

393

Jiseo Park & Andrew Luschei

0.051

394

Srikanth Mohan & Colby Moran

0.051

395

Samar Khoury & Caitlin Pan

0.051

396

Rex Juho Park & Jayden Yaejoon Jung

0.051

397

Gabby Shin & Brian Kang

0.051

398

Rhea Grewal & Dyuthi Pothukuchi

0.051

399

Milan Kapasi & Jason Zhang

0.051

400

Rushil Rana & Taedus Nguyen

0.051