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:  

November 23, 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

3.741

2

Kaitlyn Tapia

3.488

3

Sterling Utovac

3.275

4

Kaison Maruyama

2.825

5

Olivia Ohr

2.820

6

Zayn Charania

2.654

7

Aaron Kuang

2.513

8

Abby Merges

2.479

9

Lucas Cao

2.404

10

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

11

Nikhil Bawa

2.247

12

Andrea Wong

2.243

13

Skanda Gopikannan

2.194

14

Shiwen Huang

2.117

15

Salma Gheith

2.065

16

Levin Ma

2.044

17

Om Modi

2.030

19

Sanjith Senthil

1.982

20

Erin Jia

1.934

21

Grady Morris

1.912

22

Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

1.909

23

William Li

1.861

24

Veronica Zhang

1.731

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

26

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

1.601

27

Anthony Lee & Veer Parmar

1.599

28

Joya Tendulkar & Iris Pang

1.573

29

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

1.549

30

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

1.540

31

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

1.532

32

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

1.475

33

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

1.460

34

Gary Ayala & Farhan Khan

1.443

35

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

1.435

36

Maddie Lee & Aditya Gupta

1.388

37

Gavin Hui & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.370

38

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

1.369

39

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

1.353

40

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

1.348

41

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

1.330

42

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

1.306

43

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

1.290

44

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

1.282

45

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

1.276

46

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

1.267

47

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

1.263

48

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

1.250

49

Etienne Yang & Chiara D'agostino

1.243

50

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

1.237