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 15, 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

Nico Ignatowich

0.894

102

Owen Sack

0.887

103

Meera Shah

0.884

104

Michael Meng

0.875

105

Daniel Baek

0.869

106

Paul Buermann

0.850

107

Isaac Love

0.848

108

Alicia Zihenni

0.847

110

Taejun Kim

0.831

111

Samuel Rubinstein

0.828

112

Karenna Mehta

0.821

114

Mina Hu

0.803

115

Olivia Amir

0.801

116

Vincent Wang

0.778

117

Emanuel Sasson

0.774

118

Sarita Satynarayana

0.768

119

Leah Fischer

0.765

120

Chris Correia

0.765

121

Noah Reardon

0.751

122

James Young

0.742

123

Anya Pathak

0.741

124

Jasmine Shao

0.740

125

Riley Powell

0.725

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

1

Vina Hung & Iris Tsai

3.102

2

Kabir Iyengar & Riki Balu

2.949

3

Roselyn Bi & Tiffany Tang

2.919

4

Willie Tsai & Alexis Kang

2.877

5

Feliks Lin & Andy Chen

2.666

6

Sumith Murthy & Mac Stratton

2.588

7

Aayush Appan & Yang Bai

2.559

8

Shaan Magon & Cruz Castillo

2.523

9

Ricky Chen & Jacob Brashear

2.428

10

Eli Lunde & Arham Shah

2.427

11

Dean Mrkva & Christopher Lawrence

2.344

12

Aditya Arora & Maxim Huang

2.297

13

Thelonious Kurland & Owen Falk

2.273

14

Colin Foster & Ted Dudley

2.156

15

Sai Kaushal Narra & Shivank Shroff

2.146

16

Naivedya Vatsya & Sharvil Kapure

2.114

17

Aly Lay & Spencer Carman

2.082

18

Leon Le & Alice Luo

2.076

19

Parker Magill & Nirmal Melam

2.045

20

Anita Wei & Kaylynn Yuan

2.017

21

Kshitij Gairola & Neel Karur-Parekh

1.980

22

Alexander Du & Kavin Dassanaike-Perera

1.971

23

Raymond Xu & Michael Aiello

1.951

24

Sujeev Singh Kapur & Vikram Sinha

1.933

25

Taran Wadhera & Ethan Zhang

1.918