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

126

Tristan Mankovsky & William Shanmugam

0.807

127

Kana Yee & Uraan Choudhury

0.794

128

Nabeel Ishoof & Tamara Santoyo Geijo

0.781

129

Wentao He & Emily Wang

0.757

130

Matthew Sadowski & Baker Brodlieb

0.755

131

Collin Barbat & Martin Juncaj

0.754

132

Suna Sosseh & Rihaan Vora

0.745

133

Sandhya Shankar & Gargi Garg

0.744

134

Ates Erden & Justin Spitzer

0.738

135

Aahana Gupta & Ibrahim Abudagga

0.730

136

Ryon Jemail & Jason Cohen

0.724

137

Tharoon Eswar & Rayaan Meghani

0.719

138

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.711

139

Hans Jhamb & Adhhrith Nagrath

0.703

140

Rishi Shah & Ethan Zhang

0.697

141

Jason Li & Emmanuel Wang

0.692

142

Ezra McCullers & Asa Hein-Martin

0.691

143

Sam Cooper & Alex Bae

0.689

144

Bella Jackson & Katherine Wu

0.685

145

Ben Rask & Connor Chun

0.676

146

Samay Nistala & Vedant Tripathi

0.676

147

Vishnu Kummariguntla & Milan Thacker

0.669

148

Gia Jhaveri & Amanda Lee

0.666

149

Baylen Shi & Roha Rupareliya

0.657

150

Ryan Tung & Blair Shao

0.654