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

476

Amartya Roy & Shaurya Kasi

0.043

477

Joshua Huang & Helen Yu

0.043

478

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.043

479

James Chen & Collin Cui

0.043

480

Chaaya Annamreddy & Sristi Guduru

0.043

481

Shreya Hegde & Yuvika Rao

0.043

482

Ryan Tung & Blair Shao

0.042

483

Maya Malka & Alessia Annese

0.042

484

Kathy Xu & Chloe Hu

0.042

485

Jacob Hallisey & Sam Lam

0.042

486

Parin Chanana & Anirudh Nambakkam

0.042

487

Ethan Hill & Joshua Segraves

0.042

488

Avyaya Srivastava & Eric Wang

0.042

489

Sophia Almanzar & Jiordia Innes

0.042

490

Evan Sluiters & Sebastian Scaperotto

0.042

491

Syed Armoghan & Esther Yan

0.042

492

Carter Lou & Lillian Ding

0.042

493

Kerem Celiktas & Jake Paltrowitz

0.042

494

Aditya Venkatachalam & Suvas Sureneni

0.041

495

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

0.041

496

Ryhan Bhat & Austin Gong

0.041

497

Katelyn Ye & Claire Gu

0.041

498

Hardik Garg & Cody Gao

0.041

499

Adonis Wazni & Gavin Chan

0.041

500

Thomas Rodgers & Daisy Moreno

0.041