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

101

Emily Zheng & Weijia Wu

1.006

102

Lucy Borunda & Isabella Musolino

1.001

103

Rishaan Reddy & Zaviyar Mujeeb

0.994

104

Jessie Zhou & Anthony Hur

0.993

105

Abhay Harika & Lillian Liang

0.966

106

Hunter Patel & Sean Au-Yeung

0.966

107

Cady Wu & Rishi Ramaswamy

0.961

108

Natalie Milik & Arya Seth

0.958

109

Courtney Otieno & Clara Tran

0.957

110

Aylin Liang & Irene Pang

0.949

111

Vamsi Gollapudi & Guhan Sivasenthil

0.949

112

Emily Appelbaum & Eleanor Moy

0.941

113

Ian Xu & Tam Bao Tran

0.941

114

Ethan Wang & Jake Paltrowitz

0.940

115

Deanna Yao Qian Ma & Aryan Sethi

0.940

116

Ryan Wu & Kellen Wang

0.928

117

Selma Bahrani & Daniel Wu

0.921

118

Simona Wang & Benjamin Xiao

0.913

119

Maggie Duffy & Diego Holguin

0.913

120

Wyatt Greenberg & Brayden Zhao

0.907

121

Leo Fan & Daven Kella

0.897

122

Caroline Koo & Sophia Birman

0.893

123

Timothy Kirichenko & Nathan Hadi

0.888

124

Jeff Hou & Ekansh Dave

0.884

125

Aarav Kulshrestha & Eric Ye

0.870