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

26

Lilly Stobo

1.262

27

Omar Obeidat

1.245

28

Nicolette Huff

1.231

29

Vihaan Patel

1.190

30

Grady Morris

1.186

31

Liam McDonald

1.184

32

Levin Ma

1.138

33

Roger Zhen

1.133

34

Kyson Bloomingdale

1.048

35

Michael Reola

1.031

36

Micah Byron-Smarra

1.022

37

Aaron Kuang

1.001

38

Zayn Charania

0.991

39

Stanley Liu

0.976

40

Shrihan Thangam

0.953

41

Lili Sella

0.945

42

Kylin Wu

0.924

43

Julia Thomas

0.895

44

Sophia Parang

0.887

45

Meera Shah

0.884

46

Alicia Zihenni

0.847

47

Taejun Kim

0.831

48

Adeena Naeem

0.822

50

Lucia Sanchez Gagerman

0.804

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

351

Ethan Zheng & Aaron Burke

0.058

352

Vinay Sant & Dhanush Tella

0.058

353

Isaac Hobbs & Isabella Lore

0.058

354

Matthew Pascutti & Jacob Auerbach

0.058

355

Karthik Uppalapati & Leana Paradkar

0.058

356

Jackie Zhao & Nate Lavichant

0.057

357

Chloe Meredith & Ava Mehta

0.056

358

Daniel Zhang & Timothy Volkov

0.056

359

Winston Cai & Ayaan Mohapatra

0.056

360

Anakha Ajai & Maahi Patmidi

0.056

361

Ngawang Namgyal & Odessa MuA+-oz

0.056

362

Ginevra Voltolina & Joseph Holland

0.056

363

Sebastian Taylor & Nabeel Ishoof

0.055

364

Rahul Iyengar & Blake Miller

0.055

365

Eloise Snodgrass & Sophia Rodriguez

0.055

366

Edward Napoli & Clayton Prisament

0.054

367

Ilina Jetley & Kassidy Khuu

0.054

368

Lilly Spitzer & Suniva Achuthan

0.054

369

Brent Bang & Jesse Park

0.054

370

Julia Donson & Lorelei Fessler

0.054

371

Ezra McCullers & Asa Hein-Martin

0.054

372

Aidan Hosler & Remy Sardar

0.054

373

Mansi Bansal & Nikki Shah

0.054

374

Amelia Liu & Sophie Hao

0.054

375

Angela Miao & Ayden Chung

0.054