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

251

Matthew Tamayo

0.273

252

Naumika Naresh

0.271

253

Kara Kang

0.270

254

Aubrey Coleman

0.270

255

Aditya Carter

0.269

256

Winston Chou

0.269

258

Sebastian Engle

0.267

259

Liam Lee

0.260

260

Ayeshwarya Sisodia

0.258

261

Graham Paul

0.254

262

Sage Bonotto

0.253

263

Claire Au

0.252

264

Preston Mallett

0.250

265

Aiden Kwon

0.249

266

Christina Brown

0.247

267

Nilesh Mudupalli

0.246

268

Wiley Wang

0.246

269

Jacob Brace

0.245

270

Jonah Kim

0.245

271

Nicholas Fedorov

0.238

272

Sage Stanley

0.237

273

Sami Haddadin

0.237

274

Mason Cavallo

0.235

275

Arush Savla

0.234

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

451

Deniz Buldum & Avery Andrews

0.127

452

Winston Cai & Ayaan Mohapatra

0.126

453

Taiwen Feng & William Zhou

0.126

454

Kerem Celiktas & Lefan Wang

0.124

455

Beau McDowell & Zijia Mo

0.124

456

West Yancey & Brantley Walker

0.124

457

Harrison Anderson & William Keller

0.123

458

Andy Allocco & Nate Gotte

0.122

459

Varun Venkateswaran & Wes Krikorian

0.121

460

Micah Wang & Samuel Shleifer

0.120

461

Vihan Revagad & Nicole Lee

0.120

462

Gia Jhaveri & Amrita Dhillon

0.119

463

Ashton Paul & Graham Paul

0.119

464

Anya Parssinen & Erin Smearman

0.119

465

Hailey Ko & Sanaya Jhaveri

0.119

466

Ziyuan Gao & Rachel Tat

0.118

467

Nadav Yaakobi & Lily Sawyer

0.118

468

Adelaide Chow & Grace Wieland

0.118

469

Raj Awasthi & Rishik Shenolikar

0.118

470

Danie Yao & Jacqueline Ma

0.117

471

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

0.117

472

Loren Tan & Jessica Wang

0.117

473

Vienna Valazzi & Ophelia Scurlock

0.117

474

Edward Min & Kyle Oh

0.117

475

Aira Saini & Divya Keswani

0.117