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

101

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

0.473

102

Rinesh Sunthar & Vijay Nagarajan

0.469

103

Emily Park & Michael Ji

0.466

104

Baylen Shi & Roha Rupareliya

0.454

105

Afra Miao & Darshan Chidambaram

0.448

106

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

0.446

107

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

0.444

108

Rishaan Reddy & Zaviyar Mujeeb

0.434

109

Thomas Mastella & Grayson Zeigler

0.434

110

Zaid Anwar & Nolan Samuels

0.432

111

Leyla Nurullayeva & Zaara Katyal

0.431

112

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

0.428

113

Anuraa Venkat & Aanya Mohta

0.419

114

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

0.419

115

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

0.414

116

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

0.407

117

Kamran Paksima & Kevin Cheng

0.405

118

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397

119

Eleri Davies & Iris Liang

0.395

120

Tony Liu & Akash Meka

0.393

121

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

0.388

122

Willow Tham & Mahati Mudgal

0.387

123

Allyson Lingo & Christopher Lin

0.385

124

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

0.385

125

Saashiv Gupta & Sahi Popuri

0.384