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:  

January 14, 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

Bolang Zhu

3.277

3

Sterling Utovac

3.275

4

Kaitlyn Tapia

3.202

5

Olivia Ohr

2.904

6

Om Modi

2.842

7

Andrew Gaffin

2.662

8

Zayn Charania

2.654

9

Kaison Maruyama

2.637

10

Erin Jia

2.563

11

Salma Gheith

2.547

12

Andrea Wong

2.458

13

Siddhartha Daswani

2.441

14

Skanda Gopikannan

2.433

15

Sanjith Senthil

2.422

16

Atharva Srivastava

2.393

17

Saish Swamidurai

2.366

18

Aaron Kuang

2.297

19

Abby Merges

2.268

20

Neel Kannambadi

2.244

21

Grady Morris

2.243

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

26

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.071

27

Alexandra Kosloff & Jared Bart

2.067

28

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

2.016

29

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

2.003

30

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

31

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

1.972

32

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

1.938

33

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

1.933

34

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918

35

Rushil Rana & Sreekar Garimella

1.912

36

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

1.891

37

Gary Ayala & Farhan Khan

1.884

38

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

1.881

39

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

1.880

40

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

1.868

41

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

1.838

42

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

1.823

43

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

1.812

44

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

1.799

45

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

1.776

46

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.770

47

Matthew Jumalon & Shayan Hasan

1.721

48

Sisy Aung & Austin Bate Agborsangaya

1.713

49

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

1.706

50

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

1.692