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

176

Rushil Rana & Taedus Nguyen

0.051

177

Suvas Sureneni & Iniyan Gokulkumar

0.050

178

Christine Zhong & Novella Vittorio

0.050

179

Shriya Narasimhan & Mikaella Mishiev

0.050

180

Jackson Zarro & Sara Borkar

0.050

181

Arib Naqvi & Kabir Gandhi

0.050

182

Liz Haile & Jasmine Khalifa

0.050

183

Chloe Deng & Iris Chisholm

0.050

184

Daniel Ibraev & Arnab Karanjit

0.050

185

Jillian Gilbertson & Keeley Richardson

0.048

186

Weian Yu & Loren Tan

0.048

187

Emma Song & Sophie Lu

0.048

188

Emmanuel Peter & Sahaj Madaan

0.047

189

Ayat Jaffar & Asal Mohammadi

0.047

190

Jarrett Kelley & Dylan Rolle

0.047

191

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

0.045

192

Ziyuan Gao & Rachel Tat

0.045

193

Peishi Yu & Elizabeth Chung

0.045

194

Sharat Sakamuri & Daniel Li

0.044

195

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

0.043

196

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.043

197

Kathy Xu & Chloe Hu

0.042

198

Jacob Hallisey & Sam Lam

0.042

199

Lana Dandekar & Rhea Iyengar

0.042

200

William Mastella & Nicholas Powell

0.041