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

326

Aarav Saini & Vivaan Sadare

0.095

327

reyansh Julakanti & Tyler Huynh

0.094

328

Roy Zhao & Aayush Khadse

0.091

329

Anish Misro & Siheon Kim

0.091

330

Angelyne Pham & Taarika Sethee

0.090

331

Prajin Sankar & Krishna Volety

0.089

332

Ted Park & Samuel Choi

0.089

333

Youlan Wang & Jed Kim

0.088

334

Edison Xiong & Milan Kapasi

0.086

335

Charles Knowles & Scarlett Gao

0.083

336

Peishi Yu & Elizabeth Chung

0.083

337

Marcus Zhang & Haoming Jadon Yao

0.082

338

Advait Wankhede & Gautham Ramalingam

0.081

339

Kaitlyn Zhang & Aniruddh Dayananda

0.078

340

Maya Jos & Stella Shin

0.075

341

Ayana Baul & Aarna Parikh

0.071

342

Bibek Karmacharya & Lucy Immonen

0.071

343

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.068

344

Neel Kamath & Athrav Tripathi

0.067

345

Audrianna Honda & Valeria Kislyansky

0.067

346

Jaeyoon Lee & Ivy Zhang

0.066

347

Ailey Nguyen & Mia Xu

0.066

348

Yuma Atherton & Leo Potere

0.065

349

Liam Findley & Ryan Baldwin

0.062

350

Tanuj Karthikeyan & Richard Shan

0.060