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:  

December 17, 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

477

Zoe Fulay

0.054

478

Evelyn Turner

0.054

479

Annika Shah

0.054

480

Richard Yi

0.052

481

Jordan Blake

0.052

482

Manav Phandi

0.052

483

Saisha Puri

0.051

484

Athena Hanna

0.051

485

Shrish Darur

0.051

486

Saharsh Madullapalli

0.051

487

Julia Nash

0.051

488

Jonah Zeff

0.050

489

Max George

0.050

490

Michael Guffin

0.050

491

Diane Allain-Tereshchenko

0.050

492

Samarth Gaggar

0.050

493

Charles Wang

0.050

494

Alvin Siamwalla

0.049

495

Jackson Shah

0.049

496

Isaac Sinaga

0.049

497

Leo Zhang

0.049

498

Aayan Malik

0.049

499

Justin Zou

0.049

500

Sophie Hao

0.049

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

451

Deniz Buldum & Avery Andrews

0.127

452

Winston Cai & Ayaan Mohapatra

0.126

453

Taiwen Feng & William Zhou

0.126

454

Kerem Celiktas & Lefan Wang

0.124

455

Beau McDowell & Zijia Mo

0.124

456

West Yancey & Brantley Walker

0.124

457

Harrison Anderson & William Keller

0.123

458

Andy Allocco & Nate Gotte

0.122

459

Varun Venkateswaran & Wes Krikorian

0.121

460

Micah Wang & Samuel Shleifer

0.120

461

Vihan Revagad & Nicole Lee

0.120

462

Gia Jhaveri & Amrita Dhillon

0.119

463

Ashton Paul & Graham Paul

0.119

464

Anya Parssinen & Erin Smearman

0.119

465

Hailey Ko & Sanaya Jhaveri

0.119

466

Ziyuan Gao & Rachel Tat

0.118

467

Nadav Yaakobi & Lily Sawyer

0.118

468

Adelaide Chow & Grace Wieland

0.118

469

Raj Awasthi & Rishik Shenolikar

0.118

470

Danie Yao & Jacqueline Ma

0.117

471

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

0.117

472

Loren Tan & Jessica Wang

0.117

473

Vienna Valazzi & Ophelia Scurlock

0.117

474

Edward Min & Kyle Oh

0.117

475

Aira Saini & Divya Keswani

0.117