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

201

Ngawang Namgyal & Odessa MuA+-oz

0.458

202

Charlie Alpert & Isaac Cohen

0.457

203

Willow Tham & Mahati Mudgal

0.454

204

William Napoli & Phil Liew

0.454

205

Adeena Hussain & Aadi Reddy

0.450

206

Noah Lee & Jeffrey Kim

0.446

207

Graham Turk & Ike Turk

0.445

208

Thomas Mastella & Grayson Zeigler

0.434

209

Ian Ngo & Julian Carlile

0.433

210

Zaid Anwar & Nolan Samuels

0.432

211

Leyla Nurullayeva & Zaara Katyal

0.431

212

Callaway Weeks & Grant Wiessner

0.428

213

Omar Dahabra & Ryon Jemail

0.425

214

Anuraa Venkat & Aanya Mohta

0.419

215

Brandon Kim & Julian Song

0.418

216

Daren Hu & Felix Shaitelman

0.414

217

Thanish Lankella & Henry Riley

0.413

218

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

0.413

219

Naitik Narang & Anya Hira

0.411

220

Ian Ngo & Ethan Wan

0.410

221

Mackenzie Larson & Anika Narayanan

0.410

222

Kedaar Garg & Tommy Hughes

0.408

223

Alex Cai & Emily Mei

0.403

224

Aanya Mohta & Jiseung Jung

0.398

225

Moumita Balakundhi & Aayan Hanif

0.397