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

451

Deniz Buldum & Avery Andrews

0.127

452

Winston Cai & Ayaan Mohapatra

0.126

453

Taiwen Feng & William Zhou

0.126

454

Kerem Celiktas & Lefan Wang

0.124

455

Beau McDowell & Zijia Mo

0.124

456

West Yancey & Brantley Walker

0.124

457

Harrison Anderson & William Keller

0.123

458

Andy Allocco & Nate Gotte

0.122

459

Varun Venkateswaran & Wes Krikorian

0.121

460

Micah Wang & Samuel Shleifer

0.120

461

Vihan Revagad & Nicole Lee

0.120

462

Gia Jhaveri & Amrita Dhillon

0.119

463

Ashton Paul & Graham Paul

0.119

464

Anya Parssinen & Erin Smearman

0.119

465

Hailey Ko & Sanaya Jhaveri

0.119

466

Ziyuan Gao & Rachel Tat

0.118

467

Nadav Yaakobi & Lily Sawyer

0.118

468

Adelaide Chow & Grace Wieland

0.118

469

Raj Awasthi & Rishik Shenolikar

0.118

470

Danie Yao & Jacqueline Ma

0.117

471

Heather Chang & Junseo Lee

0.117

472

Loren Tan & Jessica Wang

0.117

473

Vienna Valazzi & Ophelia Scurlock

0.117

474

Edward Min & Kyle Oh

0.117

475

Aira Saini & Divya Keswani

0.117