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

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