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

426

Neel Kamath & Athrav Tripathi

0.137

427

Zoya Jamal & Bhargavi Mallajosyula

0.137

428

Raihanna Shamsudin & Sahana Natesan

0.137

429

Aalen Jin & Siddharth Goel

0.136

430

Edward Napoli & Clayton Prisament

0.136

431

Audrey Ballon & Kylie Zhang

0.136

432

Yang Bai & Ryan Chang

0.136

433

Orli Schwartz & Hana Carlson

0.136

434

Ryan Chen & Nicky Wang

0.136

435

Simran Vohra & Emma Shim

0.136

436

Tess McSwain & Teagan Bolt

0.136

437

Athena Lin & Luna Lee

0.134

438

Shreyansh Vatsa & Arjun Senani

0.134

439

Julian Carlile & Winston Wu

0.133

440

Adi Narayan & Isaak Senaratna

0.133

441

Zidaan Barodawala & Pranav Barani

0.133

442

Silas Gordon & Aarosh Das

0.132

443

Tanush Chokshi & Aarna Parikh

0.132

444

Sarah Tran & Xinyi Li

0.130

445

Yuvika Rao & Claire Leo

0.129

446

Ethan Hill & Joshua Segraves

0.129

447

Ray Sun & Sophia Zhang

0.128

448

Daniel Ibraev & Arnab Karanjit

0.128

449

Ashwin Raghav & Abhigyan Mishra

0.127

450

Madison Whitaker & Michaela Brennan

0.127