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:  

September 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

Meera Shah

0.884

2

Patrick Liu

0.729

3

Saish Swamidurai

0.676

4

Skanda Gopikannan

0.632

6

Andrew Gaffin

0.592

7

Omar Obeidat

0.568

8

Erin Jia

0.520

9

Lili Sella

0.520

10

Michael Reola

0.513

11

Charlotte Dinerman

0.498

12

Angel Ribo

0.493

13

Darina Rudkovskaia

0.491

14

Levin Ma

0.475

15

Owen Sack

0.417

16

Andrea Wong

0.416

17

Selina Zhang

0.399

18

Jaylen Hilario-Peralta

0.395

19

Chance Hudson

0.391

20

Tilak Datta Iyer

0.391

21

Grady Morris

0.384

22

Kyson Bloomingdale

0.377

23

Shrihan Thangam

0.376

24

Kylin Wu

0.356

25

Michael Ahn

0.328

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

226

Annie Meng & Myra Dang

0.036

227

Prajin Sankar & Krishna Volety

0.036

228

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

0.036

229

Saarth Korpe & Laura Cho

0.036

230

Advait Wankhede & Gautham Ramalingam

0.036

231

lillian walker & Tania Mulay

0.036

232

Evan Guo & Luella Zhang

0.035

233

Roy Zhao & Aayush Khadse

0.035

234

Annabel Greenberg & Ziyad Mattoo

0.035

235

Oliver Mak & Jacob Almedia-Batallas

0.035

236

Ted Park & Samuel Choi

0.035

237

Leanna Cai & Aidan Wong

0.035

238

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.034

239

Ryan Gell & Diego Gonzalez

0.034

240

Reza Ahmed & Kyle Wan

0.034

241

Meghana Mali & Sahasra Muccala

0.034

242

Pranay Kalra & Tyler MacColl

0.034

243

Kaylee Da & Dhruv Mohan

0.034

244

Lucy Borunda & Isabella Musolino

0.034

245

Tara Kandukuri & Adhrit Rai

0.034

246

Leo Cheng & Ayub Ahmed

0.034

247

Jacob Scherrer & Aman Thakur

0.034

248

Alex Du & James Zhou

0.033

249

Suna Sosseh & Rihaan Vora

0.033

250

Vishnu Kummariguntla & Milan Thacker

0.033