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

176

Manan Gupta & Vishwa Vijay

0.536

177

Allison Yi & Hillary Jacques

0.535

178

Justina Hoshovsky & Hansh Dondapati

0.534

179

Larry Xie & Chaitanya Sana

0.526

180

Benji Wojin & Harry McLaughlin

0.525

181

Nathaniel Dsilva & Sam Parsi

0.520

182

Vidushi Sinha & Matthew Xia

0.518

183

Amartya Roy & Shaurya Kasi

0.508

184

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.504

185

Abigail Chung & Rhea Tyagi

0.503

186

Gabriel Oliveira & Kinaan Shraytah

0.501

187

Chloe Deng & Iris Chisholm

0.492

188

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.489

189

Kayla Kelberg-Gross & Eliana Kelberg-Gross

0.488

190

Scott Sterenberg & Angela Grant

0.488

192

Atharv Gabada & Neel Karur-Parekh

0.486

193

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

0.484

194

Adrienne Wang & Brendan Liu

0.484

195

Julia Rastatter & Helena Negron

0.480

196

Andrew Kapp & Holden Leidl

0.478

197

Sophie O'Brien & Ruiyu Tang

0.478

198

Lily Xia & Carrie Li

0.473

199

Henry Feldman & RA(c)my Picciano

0.473

200

Terrence Mower & Jacob Yang

0.463