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

301

Jaeyoon Lee & Ivy Zhang

0.016

302

Yunyao Zhu & Shulin Lu

0.016

303

Catherine Du & Juliana Wang

0.016

304

Ailey Nguyen & Mia Xu

0.016

305

Kaitlyn Zhang & Aniruddh Dayananda

0.016

306

Klea Rucaj & Shivank Shailesh

0.016

307

Yuma Atherton & Leo Potere

0.015

308

Crystal Chen & Jessica Ma

0.015

309

Elizabeth Williams & Evelyn Noel

0.014

310

Maya Malka & Jake Szapiro

0.013

311

Liam Findley & Ryan Baldwin

0.012

312

Benji Wojin & Harry McLaughlin

0.011

313

Rishabh Rangaraju & Pranvat Raina

0.002

314

Faiza MohamedA & Srinika Narayanan

0.002

315

Ian Kim & Stanley Hu

0.000

316

Sai Kandukuri & Nathan Jerin

0.000

317

Shiri Pasman & Vinnie Leem

0.000

318

Zixing Zhou & Xavier Williams

0.000

319

Ansh Khurana & Arnav Nagireddy

0.000

320

Hannah Wang & Mia Cadenillas Bedoya

0.000

321

Kethan Neginhal & Dashiell Carey-Squire

0.000

322

Mason Papazian & Emilio Rodriguez-Holloway-Mechal-Bellucci

0.000

323

Isabella Pedroni Spinola & Jayden Jean-Baptiste

0.000

324

Andy Allocco & Julia Ma

0.000

325

William Pringle & Tom Bradford

0.000