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

76

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

1.208

77

Afra Miao & Darshan Chidambaram

1.205

78

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

1.201

79

Gavin Zhao & Hoiyuen (Kevin) Chen

1.199

80

Advik Sateeja & Matthew Li

1.194

81

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

1.191

82

Samuel Lauriello & Desmond Augustine

1.177

83

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

1.175

84

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

1.169

85

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

1.148

86

Rinesh Sunthar & Vijay Nagarajan

1.142

87

Keerat Virdi & Rohan Deep

1.113

88

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

1.103

89

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

1.101

90

Zaviyar Mujeeb & Taedus Nguyen

1.090

91

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

1.078

92

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

1.067

93

Oliver Beamer & Amrita Dhillon

1.066

94

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

1.065

95

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

1.063

96

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

1.035

97

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

1.030

98

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

1.028

99

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

1.022

100

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

1.014