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:  

February 03, 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

3.890

2

Siddhartha Daswani

3.401

3

Bolang Zhu

3.277

4

Sterling Utovac

3.275

5

Kaitlyn Tapia

3.202

6

Andrew Gaffin

3.041

7

Olivia Ohr

2.904

8

Neel Kannambadi

2.904

9

Om Modi

2.842

10

Zayn Charania

2.654

11

Kaison Maruyama

2.637

12

Erin Jia

2.611

13

Salma Gheith

2.547

14

Andrea Wong

2.458

15

Skanda Gopikannan

2.433

16

Sanjith Senthil

2.422

17

Grady Morris

2.401

18

Atharva Srivastava

2.393

19

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

20

Aaron Kuang

2.297

21

Abby Merges

2.297

22

Lucas Cao

2.193

23

Nikhil Bawa

2.157

24

Luka Mishchenko

2.131

25

Sarah Koshy

2.104

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

226

Krish Patel & Brian Sun

0.609

227

Niel Peddibhotla & Swapneil Bose

0.607

228

Vienna Valazzi & Ophelia Scurlock

0.607

229

Aidan Lee & Ian Lee

0.605

230

Reuben Mackler & Nathan Brawner

0.599

231

Zaid Anwar & Nolan Samuels

0.599

232

Smriti Shankar & Sowmiya Deventhira-Raja

0.597

233

JayJay Deng & Vishaka Padmanabhan

0.594

234

Matthew Nguyen & Akhil Damaraju

0.590

235

Vikram Partha & Alice Nguyen

0.586

236

Sharat Sakamuri & Daniel Li

0.578

237

Chloe Deng & Iris Chisholm

0.578

238

Erina Li & Jessica Wang

0.577

239

Makayla Chang & Evan Huang

0.576

240

Wenxuan Zhong & Lawrence Kuo

0.576

241

Vivaan Rawal & Kei Vo

0.573

242

Kedaar Garg & Tommy Hughes

0.560

243

lillian walker & Tania Mulay

0.559

244

Iris Ai & Nandini Bhatt

0.557

245

Anisha Bobra & Alice Tardieu

0.557

246

Sushen Baruri & Malaika Hollis

0.553

247

Connor Chun & Varun Bazaz

0.552

248

Kiyan Raisinghani & Anthony Yang

0.546

249

Max Lim & Jadyn Kennedy

0.543

250

Jayden Padwalkar & Alyssa Chen

0.540