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

126

Emmy Mason & Beau McDowell

0.853

127

Kamran Paksima & Kevin Cheng

0.848

128

Eli Chen & Rahul Rani

0.845

129

Cecilia Croft & Chloe Comisarow

0.836

130

Tristan Mankovsky & William Shanmugam

0.807

131

Kana Yee & Uraan Choudhury

0.794

132

Wentao He & Emily Wang

0.757

133

Matthew Sadowski & Baker Brodlieb

0.755

134

Collin Barbat & Martin Juncaj

0.754

135

Suna Sosseh & Rihaan Vora

0.745

136

Sandhya Shankar & Gargi Garg

0.744

137

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

0.738

138

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

0.734

139

Aahana Gupta & Ibrahim Abudagga

0.730

140

Ryon Jemail & Jason Cohen

0.724

141

Tharoon Eswar & Rayaan Meghani

0.719

142

Hans Jhamb & Adhhrith Nagrath

0.703

143

Rishi Shah & Ethan Zhang

0.697

144

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

0.692

145

Ezra McCullers & Asa Hein-Martin

0.691

146

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

0.689

147

Bella Jackson & Katherine Wu

0.685

148

Ben Rask & Connor Chun

0.676

149

Samay Nistala & Vedant Tripathi

0.676

150

Vishnu Kummariguntla & Milan Thacker

0.669