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

226

Ankith Gundimeda & Derek Meng

0.155

227

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

0.155

228

Ryan Wu & Kellen Wang

0.155

229

Mae Brodsky & Nelson Quinonez

0.155

230

Kei Vo & Mayank Kiran

0.153

231

Vikram Partha & Alice Nguyen

0.152

232

Rishav Potrevu & Anya Hira

0.151

233

Tanish Gurani & Majed Almasri

0.151

234

Conan Matos & Emanuel Sasson

0.151

235

Aaditya Sahu & Norman Li

0.149

236

Suhayb Zahid & Kevin Zhang

0.149

237

Jake Caravello & Ryan Amin

0.149

238

Jayden Liu & Aditya Mukker

0.149

239

Ansh Shamdasani & Ishaan Gokaraju

0.149

240

Evan Hernandez & Granville Lee

0.147

241

Scheherazade Schonfeld & Julia Sandu

0.147

242

Jennie Wang & Amy Zhang

0.147

243

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

0.147

244

Ruta Sirdeshmukh & Michelle Wang

0.147

245

Tanvee Tirthapura & Sanyukta Ravishankar

0.146

246

Ellis Brown & Sofia Telio

0.144

247

Sienna Light & Olivia Fischer

0.144

248

Yixuan Zhao & Noha Bezuayehu

0.144

249

Avinash Gajjar & Vishnu Vasudeva

0.143

250

Vidushi Sinha & Matthew Xia

0.143