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

176

Manan Gupta & Vishwa Vijay

0.536

177

Allison Yi & Hillary Jacques

0.535

178

Justina Hoshovsky & Hansh Dondapati

0.534

179

Larry Xie & Chaitanya Sana

0.526

180

Benji Wojin & Harry McLaughlin

0.525

181

Nathaniel Dsilva & Sam Parsi

0.520

182

Vidushi Sinha & Matthew Xia

0.518

183

Amartya Roy & Shaurya Kasi

0.508

184

Teddy Gardner-berg & Oliver Rosenfelt

0.504

185

Abigail Chung & Rhea Tyagi

0.503

186

Gabriel Oliveira & Kinaan Shraytah

0.501

187

Chloe Deng & Iris Chisholm

0.492

188

Omar Dahabra & Ryan Rohit

0.489

189

Kayla Kelberg-Gross & Eliana Kelberg-Gross

0.488

190

Scott Sterenberg & Angela Grant

0.488

192

Atharv Gabada & Neel Karur-Parekh

0.486

193

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

0.484

194

Adrienne Wang & Brendan Liu

0.484

195

Julia Rastatter & Helena Negron

0.480

196

Andrew Kapp & Holden Leidl

0.478

197

Sophie O'Brien & Ruiyu Tang

0.478

198

Lily Xia & Carrie Li

0.473

199

Henry Feldman & RA(c)my Picciano

0.473

200

Terrence Mower & Jacob Yang

0.463