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

476

Amartya Roy & Shaurya Kasi

0.043

477

Joshua Huang & Helen Yu

0.043

478

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.043

479

James Chen & Collin Cui

0.043

480

Chaaya Annamreddy & Sristi Guduru

0.043

481

Shreya Hegde & Yuvika Rao

0.043

482

Ryan Tung & Blair Shao

0.042

483

Maya Malka & Alessia Annese

0.042

484

Kathy Xu & Chloe Hu

0.042

485

Jacob Hallisey & Sam Lam

0.042

486

Parin Chanana & Anirudh Nambakkam

0.042

487

Ethan Hill & Joshua Segraves

0.042

488

Avyaya Srivastava & Eric Wang

0.042

489

Sophia Almanzar & Jiordia Innes

0.042

490

Evan Sluiters & Sebastian Scaperotto

0.042

491

Syed Armoghan & Esther Yan

0.042

492

Carter Lou & Lillian Ding

0.042

493

Kerem Celiktas & Jake Paltrowitz

0.042

494

Aditya Venkatachalam & Suvas Sureneni

0.041

495

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

0.041

496

Ryhan Bhat & Austin Gong

0.041

497

Katelyn Ye & Claire Gu

0.041

498

Hardik Garg & Cody Gao

0.041

499

Adonis Wazni & Gavin Chan

0.041

500

Thomas Rodgers & Daisy Moreno

0.041