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 15, 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

176

Sebastian Valladolid

0.490

177

William McLain

0.484

178

Trent Hedrick

0.481

179

Yifan Sheng

0.469

180

Sharvay Srivastava

0.467

181

Joseph Lijoy

0.457

182

Ali Naseem

0.457

183

Wyatt Conner

0.455

184

Kiep Leon

0.452

185

Dannick Nzimi

0.445

186

Audrey Eckert

0.445

187

Sarah Meisel

0.438

188

Pranav Narra

0.437

189

Abigail Miller

0.430

190

Christopher Shin

0.425

191

Albert Cai

0.420

192

Atharv Gandhi

0.413

193

Saanvi Mittal

0.413

194

Shyam Muhunthan

0.407

195

Alisha Kim

0.405

196

Gauri Gupta

0.400

197

Kiren Sitwala

0.398

198

Sid Sharma

0.395

199

Pratosh Raman

0.393

200

Maura Stickle

0.392

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

3.102

2

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.949

3

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.919

4

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.877

5

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

6

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.588

7

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.559

8

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.523

9

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.428

10

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.427

11

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.344

12

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.297

13

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

14

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.156

15

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

16

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.114

17

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.082

18

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.076

19

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

2.045

20

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.017

21

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

22

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.971

23

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.951

24

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

1.933

25

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918