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

76

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

1.208

77

Afra Miao & Darshan Chidambaram

1.205

78

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

1.201

79

Gavin Zhao & Hoiyuen (Kevin) Chen

1.199

80

Advik Sateeja & Matthew Li

1.194

81

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

1.191

82

Samuel Lauriello & Desmond Augustine

1.177

83

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

1.175

84

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

1.169

85

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

1.148

86

Rinesh Sunthar & Vijay Nagarajan

1.142

87

Keerat Virdi & Rohan Deep

1.113

88

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

1.103

89

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

1.101

90

Zaviyar Mujeeb & Taedus Nguyen

1.090

91

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

1.078

92

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

1.067

93

Oliver Beamer & Amrita Dhillon

1.066

94

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

1.065

95

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

1.063

96

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

1.035

97

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

1.030

98

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

1.028

99

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

1.022

100

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

1.014