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:  

October 21, 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

101

Olivia Amir

0.450

102

James Young

0.442

103

Vanessa Xu

0.442

104

Hayul (Ellie) Kim

0.426

105

Owen Sack

0.417

106

Vincent Wang

0.407

107

Kiren Sitwala

0.398

108

Anabella Pisapia De Marco

0.397

109

Pranav Narra

0.397

110

Colin Xiang

0.396

111

Tilak Datta Iyer

0.391

112

Gabriel Whangbo-Olvera

0.383

113

Audrey Eckert

0.380

115

Cathryn Wu

0.369

116

August Sone

0.365

117

Chris Correia

0.363

118

Dylan Carey

0.357

119

Sophia Moreno

0.352

120

Steven Chi

0.350

121

Eric Xing

0.350

122

James Moon

0.350

123

Sami Shapiro

0.343

124

Sarah Meisel

0.338

125

Ryan Chang

0.335

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

26

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

1.175

27

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

1.078

28

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

1.024

29

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

1.007

30

Natalie Milik & Arya Seth

1.002

31

Leon Le & Alice Luo

1.001

32

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

0.983

33

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

0.974

34

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

0.973

35

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

0.922

36

Etienne Yang & Chiara D'agostino

0.899

37

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

0.874

38

Emmy Mason & Beau McDowell

0.853

39

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

0.853

40

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

0.842

41

Leo Fan & Daven Kella

0.838

42

Wyatt Greenberg & Brayden Zhao

0.837

43

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

0.822

44

Hans Jhamb & Adhhrith Nagrath

0.817

45

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

0.808

46

Lucy Borunda & Isabella Musolino

0.802

47

Cady Wu & Rishi Ramaswamy

0.798

48

Aari Sabnani & Leo Hao

0.797

49

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

0.795

50

Oliver Beamer & Amrita Dhillon

0.792