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:  

October 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

151

Preston Mallett

0.250

152

Dalton Ngo

0.250

153

Aiden Kwon

0.249

154

Jacob Waxman

0.248

155

Wyatt Conner

0.246

156

Nilesh Mudupalli

0.246

157

Jacob Brace

0.245

158

Jonah Kim

0.245

159

Sebastian Engle

0.244

160

Ayeshwarya Sisodia

0.243

161

Nishan Vense

0.242

162

Michael Meng

0.242

163

Santiago Jimenez

0.241

164

Saumya Katariya

0.241

165

Emanuel Sasson

0.240

166

Ishaan Dhillon-Patel

0.235

167

Carter Nelson

0.234

168

Samuel Rubinstein

0.233

169

Tara Prem

0.233

170

Melissa Khadivi

0.233

171

Gabrielle Torrence

0.232

172

Christopher Cheng

0.231

173

Saraphina Zhao

0.228

174

Shyam Muhunthan

0.225

175

Saanvi Mittal

0.223

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

176

Shreyas Dharani & Siddharth Tummala

0.252

177

Wenxuan Zhong & Lawrence Kuo

0.248

178

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

0.248

179

Caleb Kurlantzick & Kofi Hair-Ralston

0.248

180

Marvin Xi & Julia Pan

0.247

181

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

0.247

182

Nick Torres & Tyler Marcus

0.243

183

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

0.241

184

Tristan Mankovsky & William Shanmugam

0.240

185

Luke Liu & Sreenidh Durisheti

0.239

186

Pranay Kalra & Tyler MacColl

0.238

187

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.236

188

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.235

189

Rishi Pandhi & Baylen Shi

0.234

190

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

0.234

191

Alonso Ramirez & Connor Spaans

0.233

192

Olivia Yang & Maris Menenberg

0.232

193

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.232

194

Shriya Narasimhan & Mikaella Mishiev

0.229

195

Mitali Alurkar & Luke Santorsiero

0.229

196

Aidan Lee & Ian Lee

0.227

197

Ved Kusurkar & Jun-hyeok Moon

0.226

198

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.226

199

Xuanyu Dong & Leon Yang

0.226

200

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.223