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

351

Ethan Zheng & Aaron Burke

0.058

352

Vinay Sant & Dhanush Tella

0.058

353

Isaac Hobbs & Isabella Lore

0.058

354

Matthew Pascutti & Jacob Auerbach

0.058

355

Karthik Uppalapati & Leana Paradkar

0.058

356

Jackie Zhao & Nate Lavichant

0.057

357

Chloe Meredith & Ava Mehta

0.056

358

Daniel Zhang & Timothy Volkov

0.056

359

Winston Cai & Ayaan Mohapatra

0.056

360

Anakha Ajai & Maahi Patmidi

0.056

361

Ngawang Namgyal & Odessa MuA+-oz

0.056

362

Ginevra Voltolina & Joseph Holland

0.056

363

Sebastian Taylor & Nabeel Ishoof

0.055

364

Rahul Iyengar & Blake Miller

0.055

365

Eloise Snodgrass & Sophia Rodriguez

0.055

366

Edward Napoli & Clayton Prisament

0.054

367

Ilina Jetley & Kassidy Khuu

0.054

368

Lilly Spitzer & Suniva Achuthan

0.054

369

Brent Bang & Jesse Park

0.054

370

Julia Donson & Lorelei Fessler

0.054

371

Ezra McCullers & Asa Hein-Martin

0.054

372

Aidan Hosler & Remy Sardar

0.054

373

Mansi Bansal & Nikki Shah

0.054

374

Amelia Liu & Sophie Hao

0.054

375

Angela Miao & Ayden Chung

0.054