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:  

September 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

27

Andy Mezgravis-Miani

0.321

28

Vihaan Patel

0.319

29

Allison Liu

0.319

30

Sahaj Chahal

0.318

31

Jayden Park

0.310

32

Noah Arthur

0.308

33

Adeena Naeem

0.308

34

Diya Venkataragavan

0.305

35

Mina Hu

0.302

36

Stanley Liu

0.302

37

Riley Powell

0.300

38

Julia Thomas

0.296

39

Kaison Maruyama

0.296

41

Lilly Stobo

0.291

42

Vanessa Xu

0.291

43

Luka Mishchenko

0.291

44

Lori Li

0.285

45

Adeleine Choi

0.285

46

Roger Zhen

0.262

47

Ruby Simon

0.252

48

Preston Mallett

0.250

49

Daniel Baek

0.246

50

Faisal Hamzeh

0.246

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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

0.858

2

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

0.830

3

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

0.739

4

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

0.710

5

Ben Rask & Connor Chun

0.676

6

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

0.633

7

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

0.624

8

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.535

9

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

0.528

10

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

0.509

11

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

0.506

12

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

0.498

13

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

0.475

14

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

0.461

15

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

0.428

16

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

0.426

17

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

0.417

18

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

0.405

19

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397

20

Tony Liu & Akash Meka

0.393

21

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

0.391

22

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

0.389

23

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

0.383

24

Leon Le & Alice Luo

0.373

25

Natalie Milik & Arya Seth

0.369