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

401

Justin Tobias

0.106

402

Nathan Fan

0.106

403

Saanvi Dasari

0.104

404

Neil Marwah

0.104

405

Jonathan Sun

0.104

406

Beauregard Dirks

0.103

407

Ben Miyares

0.102

408

Michelle Pan

0.101

409

Vivian Zheng

0.101

410

Devansh Karavati

0.100

411

Pratyush Arunprasad

0.100

412

Kiefer Phan

0.099

413

Arjun Elango

0.099

414

Leo Yadav

0.098

415

Yiyi Sun

0.098

417

Noel Springer

0.095

418

Duncan McInnes

0.095

419

Esther Pritsker

0.094

420

Srikari Kolli

0.093

421

Maren Marshall

0.092

422

Amiri Stiggers

0.092

423

Kelly Han

0.092

424

Shreya Joseph

0.092

425

Atharva Kudethur

0.091

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

51

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

1.475

52

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

1.460

53

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

1.439

54

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

1.435

55

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

1.419

56

Maddie Lee & Aditya Gupta

1.388

57

Gavin Hui & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.370

58

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

1.350

59

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

1.332

60

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

1.330

61

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

1.330

62

Sisy Aung & Austin Bate Agborsangaya

1.320

63

Etienne Yang & Chiara D'agostino

1.307

64

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

1.290

65

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

1.282

66

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

1.263

67

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

1.258

68

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

1.250

69

Kai Pehkonen & Benjamin Grabel

1.247

70

Noah Subhash & Jay Tamirisa

1.245

71

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

1.237

72

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

1.230

73

Aari Sabnani & Leo Hao

1.228

74

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

1.222

75

Benjamin Buchalter & Luka Makino Siller

1.217