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

26

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918

27

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

1.891

28

Gary Ayala & Farhan Khan

1.884

29

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

1.882

30

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

1.880

31

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

1.873

32

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

1.792

33

Alexandra Kosloff & Jared Bart

1.731

34

Matthew Jumalon & Shayan Hasan

1.721

35

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

1.715

36

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

1.692

37

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

1.633

38

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

1.629

39

Shreyas Dharani & Siddharth Tummala

1.628

40

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

1.626

41

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

1.607

42

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

1.601

43

Anthony Lee & Veer Parmar

1.599

44

Joya Tendulkar & Iris Pang

1.573

45

Emily Park & Michael Ji

1.566

46

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

1.550

47

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

1.549

48

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

1.532

49

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

1.496

50

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

1.476