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

126

Emmy Mason & Beau McDowell

0.853

127

Kamran Paksima & Kevin Cheng

0.848

128

Eli Chen & Rahul Rani

0.845

129

Cecilia Croft & Chloe Comisarow

0.836

130

Tristan Mankovsky & William Shanmugam

0.807

131

Kana Yee & Uraan Choudhury

0.794

132

Wentao He & Emily Wang

0.757

133

Matthew Sadowski & Baker Brodlieb

0.755

134

Collin Barbat & Martin Juncaj

0.754

135

Suna Sosseh & Rihaan Vora

0.745

136

Sandhya Shankar & Gargi Garg

0.744

137

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

0.738

138

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

0.734

139

Aahana Gupta & Ibrahim Abudagga

0.730

140

Ryon Jemail & Jason Cohen

0.724

141

Tharoon Eswar & Rayaan Meghani

0.719

142

Hans Jhamb & Adhhrith Nagrath

0.703

143

Rishi Shah & Ethan Zhang

0.697

144

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

0.692

145

Ezra McCullers & Asa Hein-Martin

0.691

146

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

0.689

147

Bella Jackson & Katherine Wu

0.685

148

Ben Rask & Connor Chun

0.676

149

Samay Nistala & Vedant Tripathi

0.676

150

Vishnu Kummariguntla & Milan Thacker

0.669