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

401

Kei Vo & Mayank Kiran

0.153

402

Jiayang Chen & Aditya Lavi

0.152

403

Rishav Potrevu & Anya Hira

0.151

404

Tanish Gurani & Majed Almasri

0.151

405

Conan Matos & Emanuel Sasson

0.151

406

Aaditya Sahu & Norman Li

0.149

407

Suhayb Zahid & Kevin Zhang

0.149

408

Jayden Liu & Aditya Mukker

0.149

409

Ansh Shamdasani & Ishaan Gokaraju

0.149

410

Ailey Nguyen & Mia Xu

0.149

411

Evan Hernandez & Granville Lee

0.147

412

Scheherazade Schonfeld & Julia Sandu

0.147

413

Jennie Wang & Amy Zhang

0.147

414

Tanvee Tirthapura & Sanyukta Ravishankar

0.146

415

Max Lim & Jadyn Kennedy

0.146

416

Afreen Jahingir & Riya Chawla

0.145

417

Ellis Brown & Sofia Telio

0.144

418

Yixuan Zhao & Noha Bezuayehu

0.144

419

Avinash Gajjar & Vishnu Vasudeva

0.143

420

Ayat Jaffar & Asal Mohammadi

0.142

421

Jeremy Yang & Ayan Nagulapally

0.142

422

Saivi Sodhi & Rishik Sodhi

0.140

423

Ved Singh & Melania Hoshovsky

0.139

424

Rose Semmel & Una Cutrone

0.138

425

Eloise Snodgrass & Sophia Rodriguez

0.137