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

151

Aayush Gandhi

0.608

152

Cooper Halpern

0.604

153

Upton Ta-Beadle

0.603

154

Hayul (Ellie) Kim

0.602

155

Samuel Wawi

0.600

156

Noah Arthur

0.599

157

Bowie Lee

0.598

158

Jad Vicente

0.598

159

Claire Sun

0.594

160

Saumya Katariya

0.582

161

Austen Richardson

0.569

162

Aarav Bollini

0.562

163

Bella Ma

0.559

164

Adeleine Choi

0.555

165

Daena Kim

0.547

166

Alina Diaz

0.536

167

Christopher Cheng

0.533

168

Michelle Lee

0.533

169

Elijah Yguado

0.529

171

Yuhan Hu

0.510

173

David Gussmann

0.501

174

Teighlor Bloyd

0.501

175

reighlee sowden

0.500

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

226

Eleri Davies & Iris Liang

0.395

227

Mae Brodsky & Nelson Quinonez

0.394

228

Tony Liu & Akash Meka

0.393

229

Jake Caravello & Ryan Amin

0.391

230

Divija Rao & Nicholas Willett

0.389

231

Annabel Greenberg & Ziyad Mattoo

0.388

232

Allyson Lingo & Christopher Lin

0.385

233

Larkin Murray & Sienna Whitaker

0.383

234

Vaibhav Kolli & Ryan Pius

0.382

235

Zidaan Barodawala & Adhiyan Karthikeyan

0.378

236

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.377

237

Rohin Saharoy & Raghav Shrivastava

0.377

238

Annika Subramanian & Neel Pande

0.376

239

Lucas Shang & Ethan Ebbin

0.371

240

Shreyas Pokharna & Devam Shah

0.371

241

Alex Masella & Isabelle Chiang

0.367

242

Leah Ben-Levi & Kaylee Da

0.367

243

Ruta Sirdeshmukh & Michelle Wang

0.361

244

Ishani Aluguvelli & Manvi Kallavi

0.361

245

Abhi Ashwath & Sohan Bhakta

0.355

246

Dan Xie & Calvin Jiang

0.349

247

Marvin Xi & Julia Pan

0.344

248

Ryan Chan & Avi sawhney

0.336

249

Zoya Jamal & Mayank Kiran

0.336

250

Camila Dunn & Taedus Nguyen

0.334