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

226

Ankith Gundimeda & Derek Meng

0.155

227

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

0.155

228

Ryan Wu & Kellen Wang

0.155

229

Mae Brodsky & Nelson Quinonez

0.155

230

Kei Vo & Mayank Kiran

0.153

231

Vikram Partha & Alice Nguyen

0.152

232

Rishav Potrevu & Anya Hira

0.151

233

Tanish Gurani & Majed Almasri

0.151

234

Conan Matos & Emanuel Sasson

0.151

235

Aaditya Sahu & Norman Li

0.149

236

Suhayb Zahid & Kevin Zhang

0.149

237

Jake Caravello & Ryan Amin

0.149

238

Jayden Liu & Aditya Mukker

0.149

239

Ansh Shamdasani & Ishaan Gokaraju

0.149

240

Evan Hernandez & Granville Lee

0.147

241

Scheherazade Schonfeld & Julia Sandu

0.147

242

Jennie Wang & Amy Zhang

0.147

243

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

0.147

244

Ruta Sirdeshmukh & Michelle Wang

0.147

245

Tanvee Tirthapura & Sanyukta Ravishankar

0.146

246

Ellis Brown & Sofia Telio

0.144

247

Sienna Light & Olivia Fischer

0.144

248

Yixuan Zhao & Noha Bezuayehu

0.144

249

Avinash Gajjar & Vishnu Vasudeva

0.143

250

Vidushi Sinha & Matthew Xia

0.143