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 15, 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

Zayn Charania

2.654

8

Andrew Gaffin

2.628

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

Patrick Liu

2.077

25

Sanjith Senthil

2.060

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

76

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

1.201

77

Gavin Zhao & Hoiyuen (Kevin) Chen

1.199

78

Advik Sateeja & Matthew Li

1.194

79

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

1.191

80

Samuel Lauriello & Desmond Augustine

1.177

81

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

1.175

82

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

1.169

83

Bryan Zhao & Colin Xu

1.148

84

Rinesh Sunthar & Vijay Nagarajan

1.142

85

Keerat Virdi & Rohan Deep

1.113

86

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

1.101

87

Zaviyar Mujeeb & Taedus Nguyen

1.090

88

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

1.078

89

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

1.067

90

Oliver Beamer & Amrita Dhillon

1.066

91

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

1.065

92

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

1.063

93

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

1.035

94

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

1.030

95

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

1.028

96

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

1.014

97

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

1.006

98

Lucy Borunda & Isabella Musolino

1.001

99

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

1.001

100

Rishaan Reddy & Zaviyar Mujeeb

0.994