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

76

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

0.168

77

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

0.164

78

Willow Tham & Mahati Mudgal

0.159

79

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

0.158

80

Ava Zahtila & Aanya Sood

0.158

81

Rishaan Reddy & Zaviyar Mujeeb

0.158

82

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

0.157

83

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

0.155

84

Ankith Gundimeda & Derek Meng

0.155

85

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

0.155

86

Annika Subramanian & Neel Pande

0.155

87

Maddie Lee & Aditya Gupta

0.155

88

Ryan Wu & Kellen Wang

0.155

89

Wentao He & Emily Wang

0.154

90

Saanvi Sudhakar & Aaditya Mishra

0.152

91

Lily Xia & Carrie Li

0.152

92

Vikram Partha & Alice Nguyen

0.152

93

Samay Nistala & Vedant Tripathi

0.149

94

Hans Jhamb & Adhhrith Nagrath

0.149

95

Zaid Anwar & Nolan Samuels

0.149

96

Pavanaj Gupta & Jocelyn Wu

0.149

97

Aarya Venkat & Aneesh Velicheti

0.149

98

Suhayb Zahid & Kevin Zhang

0.149

99

Jake Caravello & Ryan Amin

0.149

100

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

0.149