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 17, 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

Andrew Gaffin

2.662

8

Zayn Charania

2.654

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

Liam McDonald

2.091

25

Patrick Liu

2.077

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

326

Mitali Alurkar & Luke Santorsiero

0.229

327

William Long & Sisi Holden

0.227

328

Ved Kusurkar & Jun-hyeok Moon

0.226

329

Nora Yarlagadda & Hansika Kolli

0.226

330

Xuanyu Dong & Leon Yang

0.226

331

Anisha Chandra & Natalie Berman

0.224

332

Ethan Zhang & Claire Gao

0.222

333

Andrew Wells & Elsie Kosobud

0.221

334

Sophie Cai & Lindsay Coady

0.221

335

Chloe Zou & Eva Averin

0.221

336

Shravya Sethi & Diya Bidani

0.220

337

Leo Cheng & Ayub Ahmed

0.219

338

Rishya Vemireddy & Advaita Ayuluri

0.218

339

Abby Chao & Alexander Chen

0.218

340

Jacob Scherrer & Aman Thakur

0.217

341

Anisha Bobra & Alice Tardieu

0.217

342

Carter Nesvold & Molly Brothers

0.217

343

Aidan Hosler & Remy Sardar

0.215

344

Anya Telang & Ishita Harish

0.212

345

Emily Liu & Aditi Pinnenti

0.212

346

Maya Kapoor & Retaj Yassir Eltigani

0.211

347

Zoe Yeh & Jacqueline Urena-Bernabel

0.210

348

reyansh Julakanti & Tyler Huynh

0.209

349

Christina Huang & Jennifer Peng

0.207

350

Emmanuel Peter & Arjun Kurup

0.207