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

476

Kevin Stuart & Samantha Berg

0.116

477

Ellie Park & Mela Mandelli-Valla

0.115

478

Saisha Pal & Kei Vo

0.115

479

Neel Kamath & Jason Reznikov

0.115

480

Anna Kuck & Madeline Hadar

0.113

481

Arjun Mahajan & Dharshan Vijayakumar

0.113

482

Manasi Avdhani & Ayati Yadav

0.112

483

Ailin Wu & Angelina Tang

0.112

484

Abhiram Iyer & Surya Dasari

0.112

485

Shruti Sridhar & Annika Rux

0.112

486

Julian Bernhoft & Sanaa Ram

0.111

487

Raina Wang & Dara Park

0.111

488

Falak Dahiya & Sophia Shong

0.110

489

Bani Patel & Aryanna Mody

0.110

490

Adelyn Nu & Shreya Veerubhotla

0.110

491

Giacomo Chinoy & Caleb Gold

0.109

492

Helen Yang & Cindy Qiu

0.109

493

Avital Dumontet & Rae Belanoff

0.109

494

Alexandra Silakov & Zachary Massim

0.109

495

Aarav Jamdar & James Yu

0.108

496

Grace Gladson & Ellen Kuck

0.108

497

Christine Zhong & Novella Vittorio

0.108

498

Mahika Goswami & Arjun Mamidi

0.107

499

Allyson Williams & Eldin Senatus

0.107

500

Disha Gupta & Vanisha Waikul

0.107