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

326

Winston Rocque

0.055

327

Claire Zhou

0.054

328

Anshul Pancholi

0.054

329

Zoe Fulay

0.054

330

Evelyn Turner

0.054

332

Richard Yi

0.052

333

Jordan Blake

0.052

334

Alina Diaz

0.052

335

Matthew Tamayo

0.052

336

Saisha Puri

0.051

337

Saharsh Madullapalli

0.051

338

Michael Guffin

0.050

339

Diane Allain-Tereshchenko

0.050

340

Ben Miyares

0.050

341

Samarth Gaggar

0.050

342

Charles Wang

0.050

343

Alvin Siamwalla

0.049

344

reighlee sowden

0.049

345

Leo Zhang

0.049

347

Salman Memon

0.048

348

Jacob Quililan

0.048

349

Nicolas Griego

0.048

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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