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 14, 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

Olivia Ohr

2.904

6

Om Modi

2.842

7

Andrew Gaffin

2.662

8

Zayn Charania

2.654

9

Kaison Maruyama

2.637

10

Erin Jia

2.563

11

Salma Gheith

2.547

12

Andrea Wong

2.458

13

Siddhartha Daswani

2.441

14

Skanda Gopikannan

2.433

15

Sanjith Senthil

2.422

16

Atharva Srivastava

2.393

17

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

18

Aaron Kuang

2.297

19

Abby Merges

2.268

20

Neel Kannambadi

2.244

21

Grady Morris

2.243

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

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.872

8

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.715

9

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

10

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.598

11

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.559

12

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.542

13

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

2.523

14

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.485

15

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

2.368

16

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.341

17

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.297

18

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

19

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

2.166

20

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.156

21

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

22

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

2.125

23

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.109

24

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

2.094

25

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

2.076