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

376

Tara Balaji

0.041

377

Trent Hedrick

0.041

378

Eliza Kim

0.041

379

Kellan Lynn

0.041

380

Jackson Dirks

0.041

381

Mira Kanodia

0.041

382

Emma Lin

0.041

383

Ramu Muthukaruppan

0.041

384

Langston Holiday

0.040

385

Amelia Ghosh

0.040

386

Elili Flore

0.040

387

Teague Cantey

0.040

388

Jay Lee

0.040

389

Linus Mak

0.040

390

Jackson Smith

0.039

391

Zohayr Mir

0.039

392

Mark Yu

0.039

393

Grace Qian

0.038

394

Shimaz Hoque

0.038

395

Duncan McInnes

0.038

396

Changze Song

0.038

397

Apollo Stephens

0.037

398

Joel Cardenas

0.037

399

Anna Dong

0.037

400

Abir Kulkarni

0.037

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

401

Zijia Mo & Ava Fiala

0.050

402

Suvas Sureneni & Iniyan Gokulkumar

0.050

403

Chloe Zou & Eva Averin

0.050

404

Chelsea Guo & Nisha Nandy

0.050

405

Maddie Lee & Adi Gupta

0.050

406

Benjamin Yarden & Eric Liu

0.050

407

Joy Shen & Evan Lee

0.050

408

Aditya Mathur & Lucas Lo

0.050

409

Neev Paul & Isaac Hong

0.050

410

Jackson Zarro & Sara Borkar

0.050

411

Arib Naqvi & Kabir Gandhi

0.050

412

Liz Haile & Jasmine Khalifa

0.050

413

Reuben Mackler & Nathan Brawner

0.049

414

Kaeden Najafian & Jua Yi

0.049

415

Surya Nookala & Felix Xu

0.049

416

Varun Venkateswaran & Wes Krikorian

0.049

417

Avi Saraf & Koby Shnekendorf

0.049

418

H.t. Xue & Teddy Choe

0.049

419

Christopher Tang & Cooper Li

0.049

420

Naitik Narang & Tulasi Bonda

0.049

421

Iris Zhu & Henry Chen

0.049

422

Jack Logue & Emily Zhang

0.049

423

Clementine Birnbaum & Francis Harmon

0.049

424

Sana Kashyap & Kana Watanabe

0.049

425

Sami Hassan & Neel Hosamani

0.049