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

376

Tara Balaji

0.041

377

Trent Hedrick

0.041

378

Eliza Kim

0.041

379

Kellan Lynn

0.041

380

Jackson Dirks

0.041

381

Mira Kanodia

0.041

382

Emma Lin

0.041

383

Ramu Muthukaruppan

0.041

384

Langston Holiday

0.040

385

Amelia Ghosh

0.040

386

Elili Flore

0.040

387

Teague Cantey

0.040

388

Jay Lee

0.040

389

Linus Mak

0.040

390

Jackson Smith

0.039

391

Zohayr Mir

0.039

392

Mark Yu

0.039

393

Grace Qian

0.038

394

Shimaz Hoque

0.038

395

Duncan McInnes

0.038

396

Changze Song

0.038

397

Apollo Stephens

0.037

398

Joel Cardenas

0.037

399

Anna Dong

0.037

400

Abir Kulkarni

0.037

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.657

2

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.068

3

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

1.959

4

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.942

5

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

1.933

6

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

1.907

7

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.868

8

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

1.785

9

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

1.680

10

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

1.602

11

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

1.601

12

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

1.532

13

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

1.496

14

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

1.463

15

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

1.440

16

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

1.431

17

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

1.375

18

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

1.353

19

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

1.330

20

Gavin Zhao & Hoiyuen (Kevin) Chen

1.311

21

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

1.308

22

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

1.290

23

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

1.279

24

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.271

25

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

1.216