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

26

Lilly Stobo

1.262

27

Omar Obeidat

1.245

28

Nicolette Huff

1.231

29

Vihaan Patel

1.190

30

Grady Morris

1.186

31

Liam McDonald

1.184

32

Levin Ma

1.138

33

Roger Zhen

1.133

34

Kyson Bloomingdale

1.048

35

Michael Reola

1.031

36

Micah Byron-Smarra

1.022

37

Aaron Kuang

1.001

38

Zayn Charania

0.991

39

Stanley Liu

0.976

40

Shrihan Thangam

0.953

41

Lili Sella

0.945

42

Kylin Wu

0.924

43

Julia Thomas

0.895

44

Sophia Parang

0.887

45

Meera Shah

0.884

46

Alicia Zihenni

0.847

47

Taejun Kim

0.831

48

Adeena Naeem

0.822

50

Lucia Sanchez Gagerman

0.804

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

376

Haodong Jiang & Harrish Ahilan

0.053

377

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

0.053

378

Atticus Jackson & Tade Petrosyan

0.053

379

Tanisi Sahai & Richard Ma

0.053

380

Angelina Tang & Eileen Wu

0.053

381

Monteserrat Corona & Ryan Jiang

0.053

382

Edward Min & Kyle Oh

0.053

383

Michael Wong & Siyu Wang

0.052

384

Shreyansh Vatsa & Ethan Ebbin

0.052

385

Audrey Ren & Ryley Chen

0.052

386

Jonah Kleinman & Alex Belman

0.052

387

Sophia Zhao & Aayush Kalmadi

0.052

388

Zoe Yeh & Jacqueline Urena-Bernabel

0.052

389

Raina Wang & Dara Park

0.052

390

Nathan Acharya & Arnav Jain

0.052

391

Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

0.051

392

Chris Daniel & Sophia Curtis

0.051

393

Jiseo Park & Andrew Luschei

0.051

394

Srikanth Mohan & Colby Moran

0.051

395

Samar Khoury & Caitlin Pan

0.051

396

Rex Juho Park & Jayden Yaejoon Jung

0.051

397

Gabby Shin & Brian Kang

0.051

398

Rhea Grewal & Dyuthi Pothukuchi

0.051

399

Milan Kapasi & Jason Zhang

0.051

400

Rushil Rana & Taedus Nguyen

0.051