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:  

January 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

1

Angel Ribo

3.808

2

Bolang Zhu

3.277

3

Sterling Utovac

3.275

4

Kaitlyn Tapia

3.202

5

Andrew Gaffin

3.041

6

Olivia Ohr

2.904

7

Neel Kannambadi

2.904

8

Om Modi

2.842

9

Zayn Charania

2.654

10

Kaison Maruyama

2.637

11

Erin Jia

2.611

12

Salma Gheith

2.547

13

Andrea Wong

2.458

14

Siddhartha Daswani

2.441

15

Skanda Gopikannan

2.433

16

Sanjith Senthil

2.422

17

Grady Morris

2.401

18

Atharva Srivastava

2.393

19

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

20

Aaron Kuang

2.297

21

Abby Merges

2.268

22

Lucas Cao

2.193

23

Nikhil Bawa

2.157

24

Luka Mishchenko

2.131

25

Sarah Koshy

2.104

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

3.575

2

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

3.158

3

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

3.102

4

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

3.024

5

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.953

6

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.919

7

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.894

8

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.872

9

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.715

10

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

11

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.598

12

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.542

13

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

2.523

14

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

2.425

15

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

2.404

16

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.341

17

Aarav Jamdar & James Yu

2.302

18

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.297

19

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

20

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.268

21

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

2.163

22

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.156

23

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

2.125

24

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

2.105

25

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

2.094