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:  

December 17, 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

Sterling Utovac

3.275

3

Kaitlyn Tapia

3.202

4

Olivia Ohr

2.904

5

Om Modi

2.797

6

Kaison Maruyama

2.744

7

Andrew Gaffin

2.662

8

Zayn Charania

2.654

9

Salma Gheith

2.547

10

Skanda Gopikannan

2.433

11

Aaron Kuang

2.421

12

Atharva Srivastava

2.393

13

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

14

Abby Merges

2.268

15

Neel Kannambadi

2.244

16

Andrea Wong

2.243

17

Grady Morris

2.243

18

Bolang Zhu

2.227

19

Lucas Cao

2.193

20

Erin Jia

2.184

21

Nikhil Bawa

2.157

22

Shiwen Huang

2.117

23

Sarah Koshy

2.104

24

Liam McDonald

2.091

25

Patrick Liu

2.077

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

251

Avi Saraf & Koby Shnekendorf

0.331

252

Jun Jang & Lillian Schornhorst

0.330

253

Vishesh Sood & Nirvi Baddela

0.329

254

Zach Gao & Mick Ziv Petreanu

0.329

255

Brandon Sweet & Arjun Vora

0.324

256

Rahul Iyengar & Blake Miller

0.323

257

Ilina Jetley & Kassidy Khuu

0.323

258

Timothy Kirichenko & Keshav Harpavat

0.320

259

Vihaan Patel & Aadi Loonawat

0.319

260

Victor Lock & Andrew Scheufele

0.310

261

William Frank & Luke Kosner

0.309

262

Krishaan Parikh & Lee Cumberbatch

0.308

263

Atharv Gabada & Riddhish Saravanan

0.308

264

Rosie Liu & Abby Cai

0.308

265

Bhargav Malyala & Akshayan Arasan

0.308

266

Charan Pyloore & Anya Hira

0.308

267

Alena Alexeeva & Jaden Hoang

0.307

268

Matthew Nguyen & Akhil Damaraju

0.305

269

Aarav Jamdar & Junseo Lee

0.305

270

Alex Somers & Ethan Hill

0.304

271

Mithil Gontla & Ishaan Gokaraju

0.304

272

Sharzeh Jafferali & Alejandro Manso

0.303

273

Chaaya Annamreddy & Sristi Guduru

0.303

274

Melody Cheng & Cristina Alvarez

0.297

275

Aarav Saini & Vivaan Sadare

0.294