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

201

Ethan Zhang & Claire Gao

0.222

202

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

0.220

203

Shravya Sethi & Diya Bidani

0.220

204

Leah Ben-Levi & Kaylee Da

0.220

205

Leo Cheng & Ayub Ahmed

0.219

206

Jacob Scherrer & Aman Thakur

0.217

207

Jenna He & Riya Sreeram

0.217

208

Sarayu Pasumarthi & Adya Balakrishnan

0.206

209

Vishesh Sood & Nirvi Baddela

0.206

210

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.205

211

Nakul Banka & Ayush Iyengar

0.204

212

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

0.204

213

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.202

214

Aashna Bhakkad & Zayd Mahmud

0.200

215

Gary Ayala & Eli Chen

0.196

216

Micah Tang & Alice Wang

0.195

217

Liam Findley & William Mastella

0.194

218

Noah Subhash & Jay Tamirisa

0.189

219

Nathan Hadi & Ian Ngo

0.185

220

Alex Somers & Antonio Rico

0.185

221

Sandhya Shankar & Gargi Garg

0.177

222

Kiyan Raisinghani & Anthony Yang

0.170

223

Julia Chenard & Brynn Sheehan

0.170

224

Emma Shim & Lucas Kwok

0.169

225

Carolina Pineda & Saphara Kelegama

0.163