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:  

December 17, 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

76

Eric Xing

1.148

77

Sophia Parang

1.144

78

Tilak Datta Iyer

1.142

79

Diya Venkataragavan

1.142

80

Julia Thomas

1.133

81

Adeena Naeem

1.129

82

Owen Gao

1.098

83

Nishan Vense

1.097

84

Sami Shapiro

1.091

85

Cathryn Wu

1.085

86

Emma Sobel

1.071

87

Vanessa Xu

1.058

88

Neel Aparanji

1.056

89

Gabriel Whangbo-Olvera

1.038

90

Navid Sheybani

1.002

91

Dylan Carey

0.984

92

Stanley Liu

0.976

93

Taro Porschke

0.966

94

Lucas Chritah

0.963

95

Shrihan Thangam

0.953

96

Sreethan Karna

0.948

97

Jayden Park

0.942

98

Alexander Zhang

0.933

99

Tara Prem

0.924

100

Jeffery Wei

0.921

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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

3.102

2

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.949

3

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.919

4

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.877

5

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

6

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.588

7

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.559

8

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.523

9

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

2.523

10

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.428

11

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.427

12

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.344

13

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.297

14

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

15

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.156

16

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

17

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.114

18

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.082

19

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.076

20

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

2.045

21

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.017

22

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

23

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.971

24

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.951

25

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

1.933