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

201

Ngawang Namgyal & Odessa MuA+-oz

0.458

202

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.457

203

Willow Tham & Mahati Mudgal

0.454

204

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.454

205

Adeena Hussain & Aadi Reddy

0.450

206

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

0.446

207

Graham Turk & Ike Turk

0.445

208

Thomas Mastella & Grayson Zeigler

0.434

209

Ian Ngo & Julian Carlile

0.433

210

Zaid Anwar & Nolan Samuels

0.432

211

Leyla Nurullayeva & Zaara Katyal

0.431

212

Callaway Weeks & Grant Wiessner

0.428

213

Omar Dahabra & Ryon Jemail

0.425

214

Anuraa Venkat & Aanya Mohta

0.419

215

Brandon Kim & Julian Song

0.418

216

Daren Hu & Felix Shaitelman

0.414

217

Thanish Lankella & Henry Riley

0.413

218

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

0.413

219

Naitik Narang & Anya Hira

0.411

220

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.410

221

Mackenzie Larson & Anika Narayanan

0.410

222

Kedaar Garg & Tommy Hughes

0.408

223

Alex Cai & Emily Mei

0.403

224

Aanya Mohta & Jiseung Jung

0.398

225

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397