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

76

Jaylen Hilario-Peralta

0.613

77

Claire Sun

0.611

78

Aayush Gandhi

0.608

79

Jayden Park

0.602

80

Isaac Love

0.599

81

Noah Arthur

0.599

82

Jad Vicente

0.598

83

Dylan Millimet

0.591

84

Ruby Simon

0.582

85

Chance Hudson

0.579

86

Adeleine Choi

0.555

87

Jasmine Shao

0.533

88

Siddhartha Daswani

0.521

89

Chloe Swidler

0.520

90

Bella Ma

0.517

91

Sarah Koshy

0.510

92

Andy Mezgravis-Miani

0.505

93

David Gussmann

0.501

94

Charlotte Dinerman

0.498

95

Alexander Zhang

0.497

96

Nico Ignatowich

0.494

97

Leah Fischer

0.484

98

Aarav Bollini

0.483

99

Taro Porschke

0.473

100

Yifan Sheng

0.469

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

201

Ethan Zhang & Claire Gao

0.222

202

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

0.220

203

Shravya Sethi & Diya Bidani

0.220

204

Leah Ben-Levi & Kaylee Da

0.220

205

Leo Cheng & Ayub Ahmed

0.219

206

Jacob Scherrer & Aman Thakur

0.217

207

Jenna He & Riya Sreeram

0.217

208

Sarayu Pasumarthi & Adya Balakrishnan

0.206

209

Vishesh Sood & Nirvi Baddela

0.206

210

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.205

211

Nakul Banka & Ayush Iyengar

0.204

212

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

0.204

213

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.202

214

Aashna Bhakkad & Zayd Mahmud

0.200

215

Gary Ayala & Eli Chen

0.196

216

Micah Tang & Alice Wang

0.195

217

Liam Findley & William Mastella

0.194

218

Noah Subhash & Jay Tamirisa

0.189

219

Nathan Hadi & Ian Ngo

0.185

220

Alex Somers & Antonio Rico

0.185

221

Sandhya Shankar & Gargi Garg

0.177

222

Kiyan Raisinghani & Anthony Yang

0.170

223

Julia Chenard & Brynn Sheehan

0.170

224

Emma Shim & Lucas Kwok

0.169

225

Carolina Pineda & Saphara Kelegama

0.163