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

51

Omar Obeidat

1.409

52

Micah Byron-Smarra

1.379

53

Siddhartha Daswani

1.371

54

Darina Rudkovskaia

1.358

55

Aaron Choi

1.349

56

Sophia Moreno

1.349

57

Jaylen Hilario-Peralta

1.343

59

Nicolette Huff

1.332

60

Luka Mishchenko

1.320

62

Roger Zhen

1.311

63

Lilly Stobo

1.308

64

Ryan Chang

1.302

65

Vihaan Patel

1.300

66

Allison Liu

1.282

67

Kaden Buckner

1.250

68

Lucia Sanchez Gagerman

1.233

69

Ruby Simon

1.226

70

Atticus Moss

1.216

71

Chance Hudson

1.203

72

Oliver Li

1.201

73

Thatcher Hartman

1.183

74

Rory Baskin

1.170

75

Cameron Simmons

1.165

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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