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

451

Jonathan Sun

0.029

452

Surya Nookala

0.029

453

Ethan Reichek

0.028

454

Elena Zhang

0.028

455

William Henry Hosking

0.028

456

Aiden Randolph

0.028

458

Kelly Han

0.028

459

Aashriya Vasamsetti

0.028

460

Stephen Gao

0.028

461

Sahil Velamoor

0.027

462

Alan Wang

0.027

463

Janelle Lee

0.027

464

Jessie Cao

0.027

465

Caleb Johnston

0.027

466

Mia Velazquez

0.027

467

Kalyani Gifford

0.027

468

Krish Kulkarni

0.027

469

Guhan Nagarajan

0.027

470

Tiffany Gao

0.026

471

Reece Liu

0.026

474

Audrey Voss

0.026

475

Helen Zuo

0.026

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

276

Justina Hoshovsky & Hansh Dondapati

0.130

277

Yuvika Rao & Claire Leo

0.129

278

Daniel Ibraev & Arnab Karanjit

0.128

279

Terrence Mower & Jacob Yang

0.127

280

Alex Cai & Emily Mei

0.127

281

Ian Xu & Tam Bao Tran

0.127

282

Ashwin Raghav & Abhigyan Mishra

0.127

283

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

0.127

284

Taiwen Feng & William Zhou

0.126

285

Kerem Celiktas & Lefan Wang

0.124

286

Thanish Lankella & Henry Riley

0.124

287

Kayla Kelberg-Gross & Eliana Kelberg-Gross

0.123

288

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

0.121

289

Jiayue Zou & Noelle Kim

0.121

290

Vihan Revagad & Nicole Lee

0.120

291

Gia Jhaveri & Amrita Dhillon

0.119

292

Matthew Jumalon & Shayan Hasan

0.119

293

Camila Dunn & Taedus Nguyen

0.119

294

Anya Parssinen & Erin Smearman

0.119

295

Hailey Ko & Sanaya Jhaveri

0.119

296

Ziyuan Gao & Rachel Tat

0.118

297

Nadav Yaakobi & Lily Sawyer

0.118

298

Raj Awasthi & Rishik Shenolikar

0.118

299

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

0.117

300

Akash Thomas & Zahin Kapoor

0.116