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

301

Alisha Kim

0.082

302

Camille Johns

0.081

304

Madelyn Hyde

0.081

305

Manya Vattikuti

0.080

306

Madeleine De Leon-Wagner

0.079

307

Aadhya Mamillapalli

0.078

308

Rohan Boonapalli

0.076

310

Maris Vega

0.066

311

Ella Layton

0.066

312

Judah Carpenter

0.063

313

Srihan Yerram

0.062

314

Paige Bianchini

0.059

315

Albert Cai

0.059

316

Karenna Mehta

0.059

318

Matthew Wang

0.056

319

Esther Goldman

0.056

320

Shivansh Sathya

0.056

321

Eesha Gunukula

0.055

322

Max Feinsten

0.055

323

Serena Blutter

0.055

324

William McLain

0.055

325

Nathan Wu

0.055

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

426

Diane Allain-Tereshchenko & Alexander Allain

0.049

427

Jillian Gilbertson & Keeley Richardson

0.048

428

Weian Yu & Loren Tan

0.048

429

Goutham Ronanki & Albert Luo

0.048

430

Nicolas Cofino & Sam Cedar

0.048

431

Adi Subramanian & Lefan Wang

0.048

432

Maximilian Urban & Amit Kakumanu

0.048

433

Leeza Zabarsky & Julia Bograd

0.048

434

Smriti Shankar & Sowmiya Deventhira-Raja

0.048

435

Saisha Pal & Arushi Gireesha

0.048

436

Katherine Lee & Agnes Fox-Clifford

0.048

437

Khoa Ngo & Sophia Patel

0.048

438

Cecilia Lu & Zenghan Feng

0.048

439

Isharya Chhabra & Ava Choi

0.048

440

Michelle Wu & Dhruv Mohan

0.048

441

Vyas Vishnukumar & Suhas Chelluri

0.047

442

Emmanuel Peter & Sahaj Madaan

0.047

443

Jarrett Kelley & Dylan Rolle

0.047

444

Jeremy Yang & Ayan Nagulapally

0.047

445

Sophie de Lavandeyra & Isabella Rubin

0.046

446

Hanwen Tang & Ayaan Garg

0.046

447

Brady Pace & Samantha Berg

0.046

448

Micah Wang & Samuel Shleifer

0.046

449

Kevin Stuart & Tanya Aggarwal

0.046

450

Philip Dickey & Jada Cherry

0.045