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 13, 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

1

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

3.422

2

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.975

3

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.758

4

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.513

5

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.344

6

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.157

7

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.154

8

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

9

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.143

10

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.082

11

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.068

12

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

2.060

13

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.042

14

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

15

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.971

16

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

1.933

17

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918

18

Leon Le & Alice Luo

1.893

19

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

1.829

20

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

1.812

21

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.750

22

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

1.706

23

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

1.670

24

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

1.646

25

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

1.601