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

51

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

1.776

52

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.770

53

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

1.759

54

Divija Rao & Nicholas Willett

1.753

55

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

1.732

56

Matthew Jumalon & Shayan Hasan

1.721

57

Sisy Aung & Austin Bate Agborsangaya

1.713

58

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

1.706

59

Selma Bahrani & Daniel Wu

1.685

60

Emmanuel Peter & Arjun Kurup

1.678

61

Advik Sateeja & Matthew Li

1.642

62

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

1.633

63

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

1.626

64

Afra Miao & Darshan Chidambaram

1.623

65

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

1.612

66

Joya Tendulkar & Iris Pang

1.602

67

Samuel Lauriello & Desmond Augustine

1.599

68

Anthony Lee & Veer Parmar

1.599

69

Etienne Yang & Chiara D'agostino

1.578

70

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

1.549

71

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

1.547

72

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

1.543

73

Gavin Hui & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.528

74

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

1.525

75

Ibrahim Arain & Zoe Ghanem

1.523