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

52

Mina Hu

0.803

53

Allison Liu

0.798

54

Craig O'Sullivan

0.796

55

Daniel Baek

0.792

56

Salma Gheith

0.792

58

Ethan Yang

0.755

59

Ezra Segal

0.749

60

Emma Sobel

0.743

61

Michael Ahn

0.725

62

Selina Zhang

0.721

63

Cameron Buhl

0.715

64

Flynn Williams

0.700

65

Sahaj Chahal

0.697

66

Neel Aparanji

0.695

67

Aaron Choi

0.688

68

Diya Venkataragavan

0.679

69

Faisal Hamzeh

0.678

70

Rory Baskin

0.663

71

Sreethan Karna

0.662

72

Atharva Srivastava

0.630

73

Angeline Su

0.629

74

Thatcher Hartman

0.620

75

Chloe Ren

0.619

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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