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

101

Cameron Buhl

0.920

103

Nico Ignatowich

0.894

104

Owen Sack

0.887

105

Meera Shah

0.884

106

Michael Meng

0.875

107

Daniel Baek

0.869

108

Kevin Iwanski

0.866

109

Paul Buermann

0.850

110

Isaac Love

0.848

111

Alicia Zihenni

0.847

112

Gabrielle Torrence

0.842

114

Taejun Kim

0.831

115

Samuel Rubinstein

0.828

116

Karenna Mehta

0.821

117

Atharv Gandhi

0.817

119

Mina Hu

0.803

120

Olivia Amir

0.801

121

Vincent Wang

0.778

122

Emanuel Sasson

0.774

123

Gauri Gupta

0.773

124

Sarita Satynarayana

0.768

125

Leah Fischer

0.765

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

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

3.102

2

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.949

3

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.919

4

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.877

5

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

6

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.588

7

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.559

8

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.523

9

Sonali Campbell & Frances Auth

2.523

10

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.428

11

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.427

12

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.344

13

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.297

14

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

15

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.156

16

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

17

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.114

18

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.082

19

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.076

20

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

2.045

21

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.017

22

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

23

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.971

24

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.951

25

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

1.933