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:  

November 23, 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

3.741

2

Kaitlyn Tapia

3.488

3

Sterling Utovac

3.275

4

Kaison Maruyama

2.825

5

Olivia Ohr

2.820

6

Zayn Charania

2.654

7

Aaron Kuang

2.513

8

Abby Merges

2.479

9

Lucas Cao

2.404

10

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

11

Nikhil Bawa

2.247

12

Andrea Wong

2.243

13

Skanda Gopikannan

2.194

14

Shiwen Huang

2.117

15

Salma Gheith

2.065

16

Levin Ma

2.044

17

Om Modi

2.030

19

Sanjith Senthil

1.982

20

Erin Jia

1.934

21

Grady Morris

1.912

22

Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

1.909

23

William Li

1.861

24

Veronica Zhang

1.731

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

51

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

1.228

52

Shreya Krishnakumar & Felix Xu

1.201

53

Gavin Zhao & Hoiyuen (Kevin) Chen

1.199

54

Hannah Li & Kelly Liu

1.175

55

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

1.156

56

Rinesh Sunthar & Vijay Nagarajan

1.142

57

Keerat Virdi & Rohan Deep

1.113

58

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

1.109

59

Zaviyar Mujeeb & Taedus Nguyen

1.090

60

Eva Ideus & Aarush Tiyyagura

1.078

61

Apollin Lu & Finn Ye

1.067

62

Shubhay Choubey & Nisarg Shah

1.063

63

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

1.052

64

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

1.028

65

Sam Parsi & Jerry Li

1.024

66

Lucy Chong & Nikhil Daniel

1.014

67

Cady Wu & Rishi Ramaswamy

1.005

68

Natalie Milik & Arya Seth

1.002

69

Lucy Borunda & Isabella Musolino

1.001

70

Ronan Hechema & Reiner Bass

1.000

71

Raiden Chen & Shruti Balachander

0.992

72

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

0.956

73

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

0.956

74

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

0.949

75

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.949