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

426

Eliza Kim

0.091

427

Abir Kulkarni

0.090

428

Hendrik Jordaan

0.089

429

Rachel Stein

0.089

430

Helen Zuo

0.087

432

Harly Liu

0.085

433

Vanya Dudeja

0.084

435

Evan Lee

0.083

436

Nusaybah Arif

0.083

437

Daniel Ha

0.082

440

Jayden Lee

0.080

441

Manya Vattikuti

0.080

442

Jessica Guo

0.078

443

prisha parimal

0.078

444

Rithwik Nair

0.077

445

Ayan Uppal

0.077

446

Shanaya Jana

0.071

447

Guhan Nagarajan

0.070

448

Changze Song

0.069

449

Zachary Craig

0.069

450

Maris Vega

0.066

451

Ella Layton

0.066

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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