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:  

December 15, 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

Angel Ribo

3.808

2

Sterling Utovac

3.275

3

Kaitlyn Tapia

3.202

4

Olivia Ohr

2.904

5

Om Modi

2.797

6

Kaison Maruyama

2.744

7

Zayn Charania

2.654

8

Andrew Gaffin

2.628

9

Salma Gheith

2.547

10

Skanda Gopikannan

2.433

11

Aaron Kuang

2.421

12

Atharva Srivastava

2.393

13

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

14

Abby Merges

2.268

15

Neel Kannambadi

2.244

16

Andrea Wong

2.243

17

Grady Morris

2.243

18

Bolang Zhu

2.227

19

Lucas Cao

2.193

20

Erin Jia

2.184

21

Nikhil Bawa

2.157

22

Shiwen Huang

2.117

23

Sarah Koshy

2.104

24

Patrick Liu

2.077

25

Sanjith Senthil

2.060

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

151

Smriti Shankar & Sowmiya Deventhira-Raja

0.653

152

Vyas Vishnukumar & Suhas Chelluri

0.647

153

Pavanaj Gupta & Jocelyn Wu

0.643

154

Ryan Gell & Diego Gonzalez

0.637

155

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.614

156

Sophia Xiong & Diya Bhootra

0.614

157

Krish Patel & Brian Sun

0.613

158

Aidan Lee & Ian Lee

0.605

159

Vismay Avadhani & Samyak Duggirala

0.604

160

Colin Donovan & Preston Kyle

0.602

161

Sharat Sakamuri & Daniel Li

0.578

162

Erina Li & Jessica Wang

0.577

163

Makayla Chang & Evan Huang

0.576

164

Leif Emery & Abhinav Akella

0.566

165

lillian walker & Tania Mulay

0.560

166

Niel Peddibhotla & Swapneil Bose

0.559

167

Iris Ai & Nandini Bhatt

0.557

168

Rishi Golla & Shayaan Farooqi

0.556

169

Ethan Chen & Aaron Pinto

0.552

170

Saashiv Gupta & Sahi Popuri

0.552

171

Sushen Baruri & Malaika Hollis

0.541

172

Jayden Padwalkar & Alyssa Chen

0.540

173

Manan Gupta & Vishwa Vijay

0.536

174

Allison Yi & Hillary Jacques

0.535

175

Justina Hoshovsky & Hansh Dondapati

0.534