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

76

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

0.633

77

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

0.614

78

Vismay Avadhani & Samyak Duggirala

0.604

79

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

0.604

80

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

0.591

81

Sharat Sakamuri & Daniel Li

0.578

82

Erina Li & Jessica Wang

0.577

83

Maddie Lee & Aditya Gupta

0.559

84

Iris Ai & Nandini Bhatt

0.557

85

Ethan Chen & Aaron Pinto

0.552

86

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

0.543

87

Hunter Patel & Sean Au-Yeung

0.539

88

Gia Jhaveri & Amanda Lee

0.536

89

Benji Wojin & Harry McLaughlin

0.525

90

Nathaniel Dsilva & Sam Parsi

0.520

91

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

0.516

92

Allison Yi & Hillary Jacques

0.514

93

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

0.509

94

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.504

95

Rishi Shah & Ethan Zhang

0.498

96

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

0.497

97

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.489

99

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

0.484

100

Selma Bahrani & Daniel Wu

0.476