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

251

Avi Saraf & Koby Shnekendorf

0.331

252

Jun Jang & Lillian Schornhorst

0.330

253

Vishesh Sood & Nirvi Baddela

0.329

254

Zach Gao & Mick Ziv Petreanu

0.329

255

Brandon Sweet & Arjun Vora

0.324

256

Rahul Iyengar & Blake Miller

0.323

257

Ilina Jetley & Kassidy Khuu

0.323

258

Timothy Kirichenko & Keshav Harpavat

0.320

259

Vihaan Patel & Aadi Loonawat

0.319

260

Victor Lock & Andrew Scheufele

0.310

261

William Frank & Luke Kosner

0.309

262

Krishaan Parikh & Lee Cumberbatch

0.308

263

Atharv Gabada & Riddhish Saravanan

0.308

264

Rosie Liu & Abby Cai

0.308

265

Bhargav Malyala & Akshayan Arasan

0.308

266

Charan Pyloore & Anya Hira

0.308

267

Alena Alexeeva & Jaden Hoang

0.307

268

Matthew Nguyen & Akhil Damaraju

0.305

269

Aarav Jamdar & Junseo Lee

0.305

270

Alex Somers & Ethan Hill

0.304

271

Mithil Gontla & Ishaan Gokaraju

0.304

272

Sharzeh Jafferali & Alejandro Manso

0.303

273

Chaaya Annamreddy & Sristi Guduru

0.303

274

Melody Cheng & Cristina Alvarez

0.297

275

Aarav Saini & Vivaan Sadare

0.294