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

126

Chris Correia

0.765

127

Noah Reardon

0.751

128

James Young

0.742

129

Anya Pathak

0.741

130

Jasmine Shao

0.740

131

Riley Powell

0.725

132

Selina Zhang

0.721

133

August Sone

0.716

135

Anabella Pisapia De Marco

0.701

137

Ibraheem Mushtaq

0.692

138

James Moon

0.662

139

Himnish Koul

0.652

140

Chloe Swidler

0.650

141

Owen Reed

0.650

142

Avigail Wus

0.647

143

Ayushi Thakur

0.627

144

Ryan Lin

0.627

145

Mason Sterling

0.625

146

Chloe Ren

0.619

147

Serena Blutter

0.619

148

Angeline Su

0.613

149

Kelvin Meng

0.613

150

Carter Nelson

0.611

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

201

Ngawang Namgyal & Odessa MuA+-oz

0.458

202

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.457

203

Willow Tham & Mahati Mudgal

0.454

204

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.454

205

Adeena Hussain & Aadi Reddy

0.450

206

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

0.446

207

Graham Turk & Ike Turk

0.445

208

Thomas Mastella & Grayson Zeigler

0.434

209

Ian Ngo & Julian Carlile

0.433

210

Zaid Anwar & Nolan Samuels

0.432

211

Leyla Nurullayeva & Zaara Katyal

0.431

212

Callaway Weeks & Grant Wiessner

0.428

213

Omar Dahabra & Ryon Jemail

0.425

214

Anuraa Venkat & Aanya Mohta

0.419

215

Brandon Kim & Julian Song

0.418

216

Daren Hu & Felix Shaitelman

0.414

217

Thanish Lankella & Henry Riley

0.413

218

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

0.413

219

Naitik Narang & Anya Hira

0.411

220

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.410

221

Mackenzie Larson & Anika Narayanan

0.410

222

Kedaar Garg & Tommy Hughes

0.408

223

Alex Cai & Emily Mei

0.403

224

Aanya Mohta & Jiseung Jung

0.398

225

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397