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

376

Sharikkaa Shanker & Suryamsh Kanchustambham

0.183

377

Maddy Moser & Lindsay Sander

0.181

378

Jad Zraiqat & Ivy Lu

0.178

379

Marcus Zhang & Haoming Jadon Yao

0.177

380

Edward Napoli & George Pace

0.176

381

Antoine Komlan & Jamie Berntson

0.176

382

Austin Shen & Anya Sawant

0.176

383

Philip Dickey & Asher McEowen

0.175

384

Youlan Wang & Jed Kim

0.171

385

Kiyan Raisinghani & Anthony Yang

0.170

386

Julia Chenard & Brynn Sheehan

0.170

387

Advik Sateeja & Cooper Ostapczuk

0.170

388

Sattina Mendonca & Methulia Medage

0.169

389

Emma Shim & Lucas Kwok

0.169

390

Cary Wang & Tolga Ergin

0.168

391

Christian Warren & Jacob Schreiber

0.167

392

Peishi Yu & Elizabeth Chung

0.165

393

Justina Hoshovsky & Shaun Wu

0.164

394

Ayana Baul & Aarna Parikh

0.159

395

Angelyne Pham & Taarika Sethee

0.158

396

Dari Rozinsky & Justin Peng

0.157

397

Michael Li & Arnob Mitra

0.157

398

Andrew Zhao & Deanna Yao Qian Ma

0.157

399

Ankith Gundimeda & Derek Meng

0.155

400

Paaramita Asuri & Roha Rupareliya

0.155