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

301

Matthew Pascutti & Jacob Auerbach

0.256

302

Carolina Pineda & Saphara Kelegama

0.256

303

Joshua Huang & Brendan Tauro

0.255

304

Vikram Partha & Alice Nguyen

0.254

305

Sienna Light & Olivia Fischer

0.253

306

Amber Wong & Yashvi Jaladi

0.252

307

Derek Tang & Annissa Li

0.249

308

Luke Liu & Sreenidh Durisheti

0.249

309

Wenxuan Zhong & Lawrence Kuo

0.248

310

Caleb Kurlantzick & Kofi Hair-Ralston

0.248

311

Tristan Gadin & Alex Shatby

0.244

312

Nick Torres & Tyler Marcus

0.243

313

Samuel Tae & Derek Meng

0.241

314

William Benish & Yonatan Bernstein

0.239

315

Owen Falk & Conor Boscardin

0.239

316

Pranay Kalra & Tyler MacColl

0.238

317

Liam Charest & Dylan O'Sullivan

0.235

318

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.235

319

Rishi Pandhi & Baylen Shi

0.234

320

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

0.234

321

Evan Guo & Luella Zhang

0.232

322

Olivia Yang & Maris Menenberg

0.232

323

Emma Song & Sophie Lu

0.230

324

JayJay Deng & Vishaka Padmanabhan

0.229

325

Shriya Narasimhan & Mikaella Mishiev

0.229