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

76

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

0.633

77

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

0.614

78

Vismay Avadhani & Samyak Duggirala

0.604

79

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

0.604

80

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

0.591

81

Sharat Sakamuri & Daniel Li

0.578

82

Erina Li & Jessica Wang

0.577

83

Maddie Lee & Aditya Gupta

0.559

84

Iris Ai & Nandini Bhatt

0.557

85

Ethan Chen & Aaron Pinto

0.552

86

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

0.543

87

Hunter Patel & Sean Au-Yeung

0.539

88

Gia Jhaveri & Amanda Lee

0.536

89

Benji Wojin & Harry McLaughlin

0.525

90

Nathaniel Dsilva & Sam Parsi

0.520

91

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

0.516

92

Allison Yi & Hillary Jacques

0.514

93

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

0.509

94

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.504

95

Rishi Shah & Ethan Zhang

0.498

96

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

0.497

97

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.489

99

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

0.484

100

Selma Bahrani & Daniel Wu

0.476