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

51

Advik Sateeja & Matthew Li

0.786

52

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

0.773

53

Collin Barbat & Martin Juncaj

0.754

54

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

0.752

55

Ethan Wang & Jake Paltrowitz

0.728

56

Ryon Jemail & Jason Cohen

0.724

57

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

0.721

58

Sisy Aung & Austin Bate Agborsangaya

0.718

59

Kai Pehkonen & Benjamin Grabel

0.706

60

Joya Tendulkar & Iris Pang

0.705

61

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

0.690

62

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

0.689

63

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

0.686

64

Ryan Gell & Diego Gonzalez

0.684

65

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

0.682

66

Ben Rask & Connor Chun

0.676

67

Samay Nistala & Vedant Tripathi

0.676

68

Simona Wang & Benjamin Xiao

0.673

69

Anthony Lee & Veer Parmar

0.670

70

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

0.656

71

Gary Ayala & Farhan Khan

0.653

72

Pavanaj Gupta & Jocelyn Wu

0.643

73

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

0.643

74

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

0.640

75

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

0.639