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

76

Eric Xing

1.148

77

Sophia Parang

1.144

78

Tilak Datta Iyer

1.142

79

Diya Venkataragavan

1.142

80

Julia Thomas

1.133

81

Adeena Naeem

1.129

82

Owen Gao

1.098

83

Nishan Vense

1.097

84

Sami Shapiro

1.091

85

Cathryn Wu

1.085

86

Emma Sobel

1.071

87

Vanessa Xu

1.058

88

Neel Aparanji

1.056

89

Gabriel Whangbo-Olvera

1.038

90

Navid Sheybani

1.002

91

Dylan Carey

0.984

92

Stanley Liu

0.976

93

Taro Porschke

0.966

94

Lucas Chritah

0.963

95

Shrihan Thangam

0.953

96

Sreethan Karna

0.948

97

Jayden Park

0.942

98

Alexander Zhang

0.933

99

Tara Prem

0.924

100

Jeffery Wei

0.921

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

276

Joshua Zhao & Joseph Hu

0.293

277

Tilak Datta Iyer & Jacob Brace

0.291

278

Audrey Yang & Christian Lee

0.290

279

Teddy Rasmussen & David Abrams

0.289

280

Rheya Singh & Emily Zhang

0.287

281

Tavishi Dani & Thara Kadalayil

0.286

282

Alonso Ramirez & Connor Spaans

0.283

283

Avi sawhney & Jacob Brace

0.281

284

Anshika Ravula & Divya Bhavanam

0.279

285

James Davis & Soham Srinivas

0.278

286

Grace Yan & Mei Kumaran

0.278

287

Emilia Mason & Beau McDowell

0.275

288

Solomon Binyaminov & Annie Li

0.275

289

Jiayue Zou & Noelle Kim

0.275

290

Kavan Pandya & Ved Kulkarni

0.274

291

Aarya Venkat & Aneesh Velicheti

0.272

292

Michael Qin & Aayush Dinker

0.270

293

Lana Dandekar & Rhea Iyengar

0.267

294

Jenna He & Riya Sreeram

0.267

295

Leo Leger & Daniel Naor

0.266

296

Saanvi Sudhakar & Aaditya Mishra

0.266

297

Edwin Gelman & Ethan Zheng

0.265

298

Ayush Dave & Julian Vignes

0.265

299

Karthik Uppalapati & Leana Paradkar

0.263

300

Daniel Zhang & Timothy Volkov

0.261