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

151

Victor Lock & Andrew Scheufele

0.310

152

Bhargav Malyala & Akshayan Arasan

0.308

153

Charan Pyloore & Anya Hira

0.308

154

Melody Cheng & Cristina Alvarez

0.297

155

Audrey Yang & Christian Lee

0.290

156

Teddy Rasmussen & David Abrams

0.289

157

Avi sawhney & Jacob Brace

0.281

158

Wentao He & Emily Wang

0.281

159

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

0.279

160

Andrew Kapp & Holden Leidl

0.279

161

Grace Yan & Mei Kumaran

0.278

162

Brandon Kim & Julian Song

0.276

163

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

0.275

164

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

0.275

165

Eli Chen & Rahul Rani

0.275

166

Aarya Venkat & Aneesh Velicheti

0.272

167

Michael Qin & Aayush Dinker

0.270

168

Lily Xia & Carrie Li

0.268

169

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

0.266

170

Leo Leger & Daniel Naor

0.266

171

Saanvi Sudhakar & Aaditya Mishra

0.266

172

Edwin Gelman & Ethan Zheng

0.265

173

Jayden Padwalkar & Alyssa Chen

0.264

174

Lucas Shang & Ethan Ebbin

0.256

175

Joshua Huang & Brendan Tauro

0.255