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

226

Eleri Davies & Iris Liang

0.395

227

Mae Brodsky & Nelson Quinonez

0.394

228

Tony Liu & Akash Meka

0.393

229

Jake Caravello & Ryan Amin

0.391

230

Divija Rao & Nicholas Willett

0.389

231

Annabel Greenberg & Ziyad Mattoo

0.388

232

Allyson Lingo & Christopher Lin

0.385

233

Larkin Murray & Sienna Whitaker

0.383

234

Vaibhav Kolli & Ryan Pius

0.382

235

Zidaan Barodawala & Adhiyan Karthikeyan

0.378

236

Abigail Jones & Gwyneth Mahase

0.377

237

Rohin Saharoy & Raghav Shrivastava

0.377

238

Annika Subramanian & Neel Pande

0.376

239

Lucas Shang & Ethan Ebbin

0.371

240

Shreyas Pokharna & Devam Shah

0.371

241

Alex Masella & Isabelle Chiang

0.367

242

Leah Ben-Levi & Kaylee Da

0.367

243

Ruta Sirdeshmukh & Michelle Wang

0.361

244

Ishani Aluguvelli & Manvi Kallavi

0.361

245

Abhi Ashwath & Sohan Bhakta

0.355

246

Dan Xie & Calvin Jiang

0.349

247

Marvin Xi & Julia Pan

0.344

248

Ryan Chan & Avi sawhney

0.336

249

Zoya Jamal & Mayank Kiran

0.336

250

Camila Dunn & Taedus Nguyen

0.334