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

326

Aarav Saini & Vivaan Sadare

0.095

327

reyansh Julakanti & Tyler Huynh

0.094

328

Roy Zhao & Aayush Khadse

0.091

329

Anish Misro & Siheon Kim

0.091

330

Angelyne Pham & Taarika Sethee

0.090

331

Prajin Sankar & Krishna Volety

0.089

332

Ted Park & Samuel Choi

0.089

333

Youlan Wang & Jed Kim

0.088

334

Edison Xiong & Milan Kapasi

0.086

335

Charles Knowles & Scarlett Gao

0.083

336

Peishi Yu & Elizabeth Chung

0.083

337

Marcus Zhang & Haoming Jadon Yao

0.082

338

Advait Wankhede & Gautham Ramalingam

0.081

339

Kaitlyn Zhang & Aniruddh Dayananda

0.078

340

Maya Jos & Stella Shin

0.075

341

Ayana Baul & Aarna Parikh

0.071

342

Bibek Karmacharya & Lucy Immonen

0.071

343

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.068

344

Neel Kamath & Athrav Tripathi

0.067

345

Audrianna Honda & Valeria Kislyansky

0.067

346

Jaeyoon Lee & Ivy Zhang

0.066

347

Ailey Nguyen & Mia Xu

0.066

348

Yuma Atherton & Leo Potere

0.065

349

Liam Findley & Ryan Baldwin

0.062

350

Tanuj Karthikeyan & Richard Shan

0.060