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

26

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918

27

Esther Zhao & Jessica Zhang

1.891

28

Gary Ayala & Farhan Khan

1.884

29

Shaurya Shah & Dhruv Patil

1.882

30

Abhinav Iyer & Jason Rong

1.880

31

Faizaan Ahmad & Eddie El-Fadil

1.873

32

Roger Li & Peter Hablinski

1.792

33

Alexandra Kosloff & Jared Bart

1.731

34

Matthew Jumalon & Shayan Hasan

1.721

35

Jashyth Lohani & Shriraghav Ashok

1.715

36

Vishnu Rao & Krishay Madhav

1.692

37

Aanya Baddela & Alyssa Chen

1.633

38

Nicholas Athanassiou & Amudhan Gandhi

1.629

39

Shreyas Dharani & Siddharth Tummala

1.628

40

Mason Ross & Alejandro Caram

1.626

41

Riley Ross & Trevor Wyso

1.607

42

Caroline Zhang & Ariana Corbu

1.601

43

Anthony Lee & Veer Parmar

1.599

44

Joya Tendulkar & Iris Pang

1.573

45

Emily Park & Michael Ji

1.566

46

Oliver Ji & Sophia Patel

1.550

47

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

1.549

48

Atharv Gabada & Mrinal Agarwal

1.532

49

Clayton Branch & Joshua Isaacs

1.496

50

Serena Tsao & Rachel Tan

1.476