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

301

Matthew Pascutti & Jacob Auerbach

0.256

302

Carolina Pineda & Saphara Kelegama

0.256

303

Joshua Huang & Brendan Tauro

0.255

304

Vikram Partha & Alice Nguyen

0.254

305

Sienna Light & Olivia Fischer

0.253

306

Amber Wong & Yashvi Jaladi

0.252

307

Derek Tang & Annissa Li

0.249

308

Luke Liu & Sreenidh Durisheti

0.249

309

Wenxuan Zhong & Lawrence Kuo

0.248

310

Caleb Kurlantzick & Kofi Hair-Ralston

0.248

311

Tristan Gadin & Alex Shatby

0.244

312

Nick Torres & Tyler Marcus

0.243

313

Samuel Tae & Derek Meng

0.241

314

William Benish & Yonatan Bernstein

0.239

315

Owen Falk & Conor Boscardin

0.239

316

Pranay Kalra & Tyler MacColl

0.238

317

Liam Charest & Dylan O'Sullivan

0.235

318

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.235

319

Rishi Pandhi & Baylen Shi

0.234

320

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

0.234

321

Evan Guo & Luella Zhang

0.232

322

Olivia Yang & Maris Menenberg

0.232

323

Emma Song & Sophie Lu

0.230

324

JayJay Deng & Vishaka Padmanabhan

0.229

325

Shriya Narasimhan & Mikaella Mishiev

0.229