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:  

December 17, 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

Arjun Gupta

0.199

302

Stephen Gao

0.199

303

Natalie Chen

0.198

304

Sanjeev Arora

0.195

305

Eric Xiong

0.194

306

Elena Zhang

0.193

307

Siddharth Lagisetty

0.193

308

Shimaz Hoque

0.190

309

Shiva Sambandam

0.189

310

Kanya Annamalai

0.188

311

Tiffany Au

0.184

312

Joy Wei

0.183

313

Renee Ding

0.183

314

Chloe Kang

0.183

315

Madelyn Hyde

0.182

316

Yulong Gong

0.179

317

Enoch Shao

0.178

318

Jiayu Tang

0.178

320

Derek Shah

0.176

321

Oliver Tan

0.176

322

Charlie Pan

0.175

323

Ranbeer Arora

0.175

324

Vivaan Shahani

0.175

325

Tiffany Gao

0.174

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

226

Eleri Davies & Iris Liang

0.395

227

Mae Brodsky & Nelson Quinonez

0.394

228

Tony Liu & Akash Meka

0.393

229

Jake Caravello & Ryan Amin

0.391

230

Divija Rao & Nicholas Willett

0.389

231

Annabel Greenberg & Ziyad Mattoo

0.388

232

Allyson Lingo & Christopher Lin

0.385

233

Larkin Murray & Sienna Whitaker

0.383

234

Vaibhav Kolli & Ryan Pius

0.382

235

Zidaan Barodawala & Adhiyan Karthikeyan

0.378

236

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.377

237

Rohin Saharoy & Raghav Shrivastava

0.377

238

Annika Subramanian & Neel Pande

0.376

239

Lucas Shang & Ethan Ebbin

0.371

240

Shreyas Pokharna & Devam Shah

0.371

241

Alex Masella & Isabelle Chiang

0.367

242

Leah Ben-Levi & Kaylee Da

0.367

243

Ruta Sirdeshmukh & Michelle Wang

0.361

244

Ishani Aluguvelli & Manvi Kallavi

0.361

245

Abhi Ashwath & Sohan Bhakta

0.355

246

Dan Xie & Calvin Jiang

0.349

247

Marvin Xi & Julia Pan

0.344

248

Ryan Chan & Avi sawhney

0.336

249

Zoya Jamal & Mayank Kiran

0.336

250

Camila Dunn & Taedus Nguyen

0.334