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

1

Kaitlyn Tapia

3.134

2

Angel Ribo

2.417

3

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

5

Om Modi

2.030

6

Erin Jia

1.934

8

Kaison Maruyama

1.836

9

Sterling Utovac

1.813

10

Shiwen Huang

1.773

11

Andrea Wong

1.634

12

Olivia Ohr

1.629

13

Patrick Liu

1.597

14

Abby Merges

1.581

15

Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

1.516

16

Nikhil Bawa

1.480

17

Skanda Gopikannan

1.442

18

Sanjith Senthil

1.437

19

Bolang Zhu

1.435

20

Andrew Gaffin

1.386

21

Darina Rudkovskaia

1.384

22

Veronica Zhang

1.332

23

Vikrant Vadathavoor

1.317

24

Neel Kannambadi

1.317

25

Lucas Cao

1.263

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

426

Diane Allain-Tereshchenko & Alexander Allain

0.049

427

Jillian Gilbertson & Keeley Richardson

0.048

428

Weian Yu & Loren Tan

0.048

429

Goutham Ronanki & Albert Luo

0.048

430

Nicolas Cofino & Sam Cedar

0.048

431

Adi Subramanian & Lefan Wang

0.048

432

Maximilian Urban & Amit Kakumanu

0.048

433

Leeza Zabarsky & Julia Bograd

0.048

434

Smriti Shankar & Sowmiya Deventhira-Raja

0.048

435

Saisha Pal & Arushi Gireesha

0.048

436

Katherine Lee & Agnes Fox-Clifford

0.048

437

Khoa Ngo & Sophia Patel

0.048

438

Cecilia Lu & Zenghan Feng

0.048

439

Isharya Chhabra & Ava Choi

0.048

440

Michelle Wu & Dhruv Mohan

0.048

441

Vyas Vishnukumar & Suhas Chelluri

0.047

442

Emmanuel Peter & Sahaj Madaan

0.047

443

Jarrett Kelley & Dylan Rolle

0.047

444

Jeremy Yang & Ayan Nagulapally

0.047

445

Sophie de Lavandeyra & Isabella Rubin

0.046

446

Hanwen Tang & Ayaan Garg

0.046

447

Brady Pace & Samantha Berg

0.046

448

Micah Wang & Samuel Shleifer

0.046

449

Kevin Stuart & Tanya Aggarwal

0.046

450

Philip Dickey & Jada Cherry

0.045