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

126

Kana Yee & Uraan Choudhury

0.384

127

Gavin Hui & Nishvith Sudhakar

0.384

128

Larkin Murray & Sienna Whitaker

0.383

129

Zidaan Barodawala & Adhiyan Karthikeyan

0.378

130

Rohin Saharoy & Raghav Shrivastava

0.377

131

Annika Subramanian & Neel Pande

0.376

132

Keerat Virdi & Rohan Deep

0.375

133

Krish Patel & Brian Sun

0.373

134

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

0.368

135

Alex Masella & Isabelle Chiang

0.367

136

Alexandra Kosloff & Jared Bart

0.361

137

lillian walker & Tania Mulay

0.359

138

Matthew Sadowski & Baker Brodlieb

0.354

139

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

0.344

140

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

0.341

141

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.339

142

Gabriel Oliveira & Kinaan Shraytah

0.339

143

Abhay Harika & Lillian Liang

0.336

144

Abigail Chung & Rhea Tyagi

0.336

145

Zaviyar Mujeeb & Taedus Nguyen

0.332

146

Niel Peddibhotla & Swapneil Bose

0.327

147

Colin Donovan & Preston Kyle

0.327

148

Vihaan Patel & Aadi Loonawat

0.319

149

Vishnu Kummariguntla & Milan Thacker

0.318

150

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.317