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:  

November 23, 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

26

Ezra Segal

1.699

27

Michael Ahn

1.690

28

Kyson Bloomingdale

1.604

29

Patrick Liu

1.597

30

Ishaan Dhillon-Patel

1.590

31

Liam McDonald

1.545

32

Dylan Millimet

1.527

33

Michael Reola

1.523

34

Lili Sella

1.521

35

Nicolette Huff

1.498

36

Sahaj Chahal

1.478

37

Faisal Hamzeh

1.467

38

Lilly Stobo

1.466

39

Darina Rudkovskaia

1.444

40

Bolang Zhu

1.435

41

Kylin Wu

1.431

42

Sarah Koshy

1.386

43

Andrew Gaffin

1.386

44

Aaron Choi

1.349

45

Micah Byron-Smarra

1.337

46

Vihaan Patel

1.335

47

Vivek Thankavel

1.333

48

Vikrant Vadathavoor

1.317

49

Neel Kannambadi

1.317

50

Omar Obeidat

1.305

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

3.422

2

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.975

3

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.758

4

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.513

5

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.344

6

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.157

7

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.154

8

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

9

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.143

10

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.082

11

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.068

12

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

2.060

13

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.042

14

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

15

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.971

16

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

1.933

17

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918

18

Leon Le & Alice Luo

1.893

19

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

1.829

20

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

1.812

21

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.750

22

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

1.706

23

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

1.670

24

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

1.646

25

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

1.633