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 15, 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

Zayn Charania

2.654

8

Andrew Gaffin

2.628

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

Patrick Liu

2.077

25

Sanjith Senthil

2.060

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

51

Ashish Raajiv Sai & Aniketh Ghosh

1.460

52

Izabella Wan & Lucy Turner-Walkowitz

1.439

53

Gregory Kozlov & Abhiram Eadala

1.435

54

Gia Patel & Jase Patel

1.419

55

Maddie Lee & Aditya Gupta

1.388

56

Gavin Hui & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.370

57

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

1.350

58

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

1.332

59

Rohan Desai & Alek Ding

1.330

60

Lucy Park & Khoa Ngo

1.330

61

Sisy Aung & Austin Bate Agborsangaya

1.320

62

Etienne Yang & Chiara D'agostino

1.307

63

Riddhish Saravanan & Rushil Baindla

1.290

64

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

1.282

65

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

1.263

66

Natalie Wang & Tanvi Golla

1.258

67

Tova Albert & Taylor Samara-Reuter

1.250

68

Kai Pehkonen & Benjamin Grabel

1.247

69

Noah Subhash & Jay Tamirisa

1.245

70

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

1.237

71

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

1.230

72

Aari Sabnani & Leo Hao

1.228

73

Pingkang Qian & Lewen Feng

1.222

74

Anika Gupta & Oliver Alferness

1.208

75

Afra Miao & Darshan Chidambaram

1.205