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

76

Shreyas Dharani & Siddharth Tummala

1.513

77

Zoya Jamal & Mayank Kiran

1.512

78

Simran Vohra & Emma Shim

1.509

79

Joshua Zhou & Flora Tu

1.505

80

Arjun Virmani & Sarina Virmani

1.475

81

Oliver Beamer & Amrita Dhillon

1.469

82

Baylen Shi & Roha Rupareliya

1.465

83

Shankaran Srivatsa & Vivaan Beri

1.465

84

Bianka Chilongo & Vaughn McIver

1.396

85

Maddie Lee & Aditya Gupta

1.388

86

Jiayi Meng & Leon Zhao

1.375

87

Lucy Borunda & Isabella Musolino

1.372

88

Tristan Mankovsky & William Shanmugam

1.369

89

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

1.354

90

Maya Raythatha & Siddharth Revankar

1.332

91

Noah Subhash & Jay Tamirisa

1.312

92

Timothy Kirichenko & Nathan Hadi

1.310

93

Nakul Banka & Ayush Iyengar

1.302

94

Shoumili Tarafder & Hamza Banatwala

1.282

95

Tavishi Dani & Thara Kadalayil

1.277

96

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

1.274

97

Ronit Singh & James Hwang

1.263

98

Courtney Otieno & Clara Tran

1.255

99

Benji Wojin & Harry McLaughlin

1.240

100

HT Xue & Teddy Choe

1.237