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:  

October 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

Kaitlyn Tapia

3.134

2

Angel Ribo

2.417

3

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

5

Om Modi

2.030

6

Erin Jia

1.934

8

Kaison Maruyama

1.836

9

Sterling Utovac

1.813

10

Shiwen Huang

1.773

11

Andrea Wong

1.634

12

Olivia Ohr

1.629

13

Patrick Liu

1.597

14

Abby Merges

1.581

15

Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

1.516

16

Nikhil Bawa

1.480

17

Skanda Gopikannan

1.442

18

Sanjith Senthil

1.437

19

Bolang Zhu

1.435

20

Andrew Gaffin

1.386

21

Darina Rudkovskaia

1.384

22

Veronica Zhang

1.332

23

Vikrant Vadathavoor

1.317

24

Neel Kannambadi

1.317

25

Lucas Cao

1.263

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

251

Ayat Jaffar & Asal Mohammadi

0.142

252

Shreyas Pokharna & Devam Shah

0.141

253

Sophia Xiong & Diya Bhootra

0.140

254

Saivi Sodhi & Rishik Sodhi

0.140

255

Rose Semmel & Una Cutrone

0.138

256

Timothy Kirichenko & Keshav Harpavat

0.137

257

Zoya Jamal & Bhargavi Mallajosyula

0.137

258

Raihanna Shamsudin & Sahana Natesan

0.137

259

Aalen Jin & Siddharth Goel

0.136

260

Audrey Ballon & Kylie Zhang

0.136

261

Orli Schwartz & Hana Carlson

0.136

262

Ryan Chen & Nicky Wang

0.136

263

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

0.136

264

Simran Vohra & Emma Shim

0.136

265

Tess McSwain & Teagan Bolt

0.136

266

Athena Lin & Luna Lee

0.134

267

Kedaar Garg & Tommy Hughes

0.133

268

Derek Tang & Annissa Li

0.133

269

Chloe Deng & Iris Chisholm

0.133

270

Sushen Baruri & Malaika Hollis

0.133

271

Zidaan Barodawala & Pranav Barani

0.133

272

Lana Dandekar & Rhea Iyengar

0.133

273

Silas Gordon & Aarosh Das

0.132

274

Samuel Lauriello & Desmond Augustine

0.130

275

Sarah Tran & Xinyi Li

0.130