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 17, 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

226

Jacob Waxman

0.336

228

Soluchi Aneji

0.335

229

Seth Smith

0.331

230

Gabrielle Mckenzie

0.330

231

Santiago Jimenez

0.328

232

Manasvini Chava

0.325

234

Noah Perry

0.321

235

Leyi Han

0.319

236

Adam Wayne

0.318

237

Siyona Khera

0.318

238

Isaac Forstot

0.314

239

Rohan Goyal

0.311

240

Jackson Yue

0.310

241

Srihan Yerram

0.309

242

Rohan Boonapalli

0.300

243

Ansh Gandhi

0.295

244

Siddharth Vedam

0.294

245

Meddy Ma

0.293

246

Chupeng Gui

0.292

247

Maeve Welch

0.291

248

Selina Li

0.289

249

Vick Tan

0.285

250

Lori Li

0.285

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

276

Joshua Zhao & Joseph Hu

0.293

277

Tilak Datta Iyer & Jacob Brace

0.291

278

Audrey Yang & Christian Lee

0.290

279

Teddy Rasmussen & David Abrams

0.289

280

Rheya Singh & Emily Zhang

0.287

281

Tavishi Dani & Thara Kadalayil

0.286

282

Alonso Ramirez & Connor Spaans

0.283

283

Avi sawhney & Jacob Brace

0.281

284

Anshika Ravula & Divya Bhavanam

0.279

285

James Davis & Soham Srinivas

0.278

286

Grace Yan & Mei Kumaran

0.278

287

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

0.275

288

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

0.275

289

Jiayue Zou & Noelle Kim

0.275

290

Kavan Pandya & Ved Kulkarni

0.274

291

Aarya Venkat & Aneesh Velicheti

0.272

292

Michael Qin & Aayush Dinker

0.270

293

Lana Dandekar & Rhea Iyengar

0.267

294

Jenna He & Riya Sreeram

0.267

295

Leo Leger & Daniel Naor

0.266

296

Saanvi Sudhakar & Aaditya Mishra

0.266

297

Edwin Gelman & Ethan Zheng

0.265

298

Ayush Dave & Julian Vignes

0.265

299

Karthik Uppalapati & Leana Paradkar

0.263

300

Daniel Zhang & Timothy Volkov

0.261