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

301

Matthew Pascutti & Jacob Auerbach

0.256

302

Carolina Pineda & Saphara Kelegama

0.256

303

Joshua Huang & Brendan Tauro

0.255

304

Vikram Partha & Alice Nguyen

0.254

305

Sienna Light & Olivia Fischer

0.253

306

Amber Wong & Yashvi Jaladi

0.252

307

Derek Tang & Annissa Li

0.249

308

Luke Liu & Sreenidh Durisheti

0.249

309

Wenxuan Zhong & Lawrence Kuo

0.248

310

Caleb Kurlantzick & Kofi Hair-Ralston

0.248

311

Tristan Gadin & Alex Shatby

0.244

312

Nick Torres & Tyler Marcus

0.243

313

Samuel Tae & Derek Meng

0.241

314

William Benish & Yonatan Bernstein

0.239

315

Owen Falk & Conor Boscardin

0.239

316

Pranay Kalra & Tyler MacColl

0.238

317

Liam Charest & Dylan O'Sullivan

0.235

318

Anjika Bansal & Ishani Manral

0.235

319

Rishi Pandhi & Baylen Shi

0.234

320

Arsh Shah & Vihaan Pala

0.234

321

Evan Guo & Luella Zhang

0.232

322

Olivia Yang & Maris Menenberg

0.232

323

Emma Song & Sophie Lu

0.230

324

JayJay Deng & Vishaka Padmanabhan

0.229

325

Shriya Narasimhan & Mikaella Mishiev

0.229