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

151

Gia Jhaveri & Amanda Lee

0.666

152

Baylen Shi & Roha Rupareliya

0.657

153

Ryan Tung & Blair Shao

0.654

154

Smriti Shankar & Sowmiya Deventhira-Raja

0.653

155

Vyas Vishnukumar & Suhas Chelluri

0.647

156

Pavanaj Gupta & Jocelyn Wu

0.643

157

Ryan Gell & Diego Gonzalez

0.637

158

Deniz Soral & Max Emanuel

0.614

159

Sophia Xiong & Diya Bhootra

0.614

160

Krish Patel & Brian Sun

0.613

161

Aidan Lee & Ian Lee

0.605

162

Vismay Avadhani & Samyak Duggirala

0.604

163

Colin Donovan & Preston Kyle

0.602

164

Reuben Mackler & Nathan Brawner

0.599

165

Sharat Sakamuri & Daniel Li

0.578

166

Erina Li & Jessica Wang

0.577

167

Makayla Chang & Evan Huang

0.576

168

lillian walker & Tania Mulay

0.560

169

Niel Peddibhotla & Swapneil Bose

0.559

170

Iris Ai & Nandini Bhatt

0.557

171

Rishi Golla & Shayaan Farooqi

0.556

172

Ethan Chen & Aaron Pinto

0.552

173

Saashiv Gupta & Sahi Popuri

0.552

174

Sushen Baruri & Malaika Hollis

0.541

175

Jayden Padwalkar & Alyssa Chen

0.540