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

476

Amartya Roy & Shaurya Kasi

0.043

477

Joshua Huang & Helen Yu

0.043

478

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.043

479

James Chen & Collin Cui

0.043

480

Chaaya Annamreddy & Sristi Guduru

0.043

481

Shreya Hegde & Yuvika Rao

0.043

482

Ryan Tung & Blair Shao

0.042

483

Maya Malka & Alessia Annese

0.042

484

Kathy Xu & Chloe Hu

0.042

485

Jacob Hallisey & Sam Lam

0.042

486

Parin Chanana & Anirudh Nambakkam

0.042

487

Ethan Hill & Joshua Segraves

0.042

488

Avyaya Srivastava & Eric Wang

0.042

489

Sophia Almanzar & Jiordia Innes

0.042

490

Evan Sluiters & Sebastian Scaperotto

0.042

491

Syed Armoghan & Esther Yan

0.042

492

Carter Lou & Lillian Ding

0.042

493

Kerem Celiktas & Jake Paltrowitz

0.042

494

Aditya Venkatachalam & Suvas Sureneni

0.041

495

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

0.041

496

Ryhan Bhat & Austin Gong

0.041

497

Katelyn Ye & Claire Gu

0.041

498

Hardik Garg & Cody Gao

0.041

499

Adonis Wazni & Gavin Chan

0.041

500

Thomas Rodgers & Daisy Moreno

0.041