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:  

September 21, 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

101

Winston Chou

0.056

102

Chloe Zhou

0.056

104

Matthew Wang

0.056

105

Mason Cavallo

0.056

106

Shivansh Sathya

0.056

107

Graham Paul

0.056

108

Ayushi Thakur

0.056

109

Eesha Gunukula

0.055

110

Max Feinsten

0.055

111

Serena Blutter

0.055

112

William McLain

0.055

113

Jad Vicente

0.055

114

Nathan Wu

0.055

115

Kiep Leon

0.055

116

Siddharth Vedam

0.055

117

Bella Ma

0.055

118

Gabe Koh

0.055

119

Winston Rocque

0.055

120

Ibraheem Mushtaq

0.055

121

Aarini Chadha

0.054

122

Claire Zhou

0.054

123

Noah Perry

0.054

124

Thanvi Voruganti

0.054

125

Zoe Fulay

0.054

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

0.858

2

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

0.830

3

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

0.739

4

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

0.710

5

Ben Rask & Connor Chun

0.676

6

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

0.633

7

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

0.624

8

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

0.535

9

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

0.528

10

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

0.509

11

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

0.506

12

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

0.498

13

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

0.475

14

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

0.461

15

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

0.428

16

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

0.426

17

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

0.417

18

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

0.405

19

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397

20

Tony Liu & Akash Meka

0.393

21

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

0.391

22

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

0.389

23

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

0.383

24

Leon Le & Alice Luo

0.373

25

Natalie Milik & Arya Seth

0.369