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

101

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

1.006

102

Lucy Borunda & Isabella Musolino

1.001

103

Rishaan Reddy & Zaviyar Mujeeb

0.994

104

Jessie Zhou & Anthony Hur

0.993

105

Abhay Harika & Lillian Liang

0.966

106

Hunter Patel & Sean Au-Yeung

0.966

107

Cady Wu & Rishi Ramaswamy

0.961

108

Natalie Milik & Arya Seth

0.958

109

Courtney Otieno & Clara Tran

0.957

110

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

0.949

111

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.949

112

Emily Appelbaum & Eleanor Moy

0.941

113

Ian Xu & Tam Bao Tran

0.941

114

Ethan Wang & Jake Paltrowitz

0.940

115

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

0.940

116

Ryan Wu & Kellen Wang

0.928

117

Selma Bahrani & Daniel Wu

0.921

118

Simona Wang & Benjamin Xiao

0.913

119

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.913

120

Wyatt Greenberg & Brayden Zhao

0.907

121

Leo Fan & Daven Kella

0.897

122

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.893

123

Timothy Kirichenko & Nathan Hadi

0.888

124

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.884

125

Aarav Kulshrestha & Eric Ye

0.870