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

51

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

1.475

52

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

1.460

53

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

1.439

54

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

1.435

55

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

1.419

56

Maddie Lee & Aditya Gupta

1.388

57

Gavin Hui & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.370

58

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

1.350

59

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

1.332

60

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

1.330

61

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

1.330

62

Sisy Aung & Austin Bate Agborsangaya

1.320

63

Etienne Yang & Chiara D'agostino

1.307

64

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

1.290

65

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

1.282

66

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

1.263

67

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

1.258

68

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

1.250

69

Kai Pehkonen & Benjamin Grabel

1.247

70

Noah Subhash & Jay Tamirisa

1.245

71

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

1.237

72

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

1.230

73

Aari Sabnani & Leo Hao

1.228

74

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

1.222

75

Benjamin Buchalter & Luka Makino Siller

1.217