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

451

Julian Carlile & Winston Wu

0.045

452

Isabella Danahy-Levine & Julia Panos

0.045

453

Aaron D'Souza & Sarah Jafari

0.045

454

Sophia Yaokasin & Jaden Vibberts

0.045

455

Eldana Arega & Jessica Adjoyi

0.045

456

William Guo & Patrick Szura

0.045

457

Falak Dahiya & Sophia Shong

0.045

458

Dan Xie & Calvin Jiang

0.045

459

Anderson To & Ethan Litmanen

0.045

460

Daren Hu & Felix Shaitelman

0.045

461

Caleb Chen & Christian Liu

0.045

462

Jamie Yang & Jack Zhang

0.045

463

Abby Chao & Alexander Chen

0.045

464

Salomon Edery & Jonathan Benaim

0.045

465

Samantha Dinnis & Samera Kathuria

0.045

466

Sharzeh Jafferali & Alex Manso

0.044

467

Anthony Fateev & Roma Agarwal

0.044

468

Austen Richardson & Chance Hudson

0.044

469

Hana Alhamadsheh & Anika Sherer

0.044

470

Anakha Ajai & Sanaa Ram

0.044

471

Rian Sinha & Teo Kiciman

0.044

472

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

0.044

473

Aaryan Gada & Leila Golzari-Hunt

0.044

474

Lois Goldman & Daniel Hyken

0.043

475

Shreyansh Vatsa & Arjun Senani

0.043