February 2025 - ModernBrain Results
Feb 24, 2025
International Mock Trial Championship (February):
We were the #1 program at the largest international virtual high school mock trial invitational ever (44 teams, 100+ judges).
- Advancing to the top six (results incoming, wish them luck...)
- Team Blue (Elizabeth Lu, Logan Pham, Jaden Hong, Grace Li, Olivia Han)
Team Gold (Sailee Charlu, Audrey Ma, Ethan Bai, Christiana Garcia) - Team Silver (James Zhou, Anya Luo, Jiachen Qiu, Vivian Mei, Mira Jiang, Angelia Li)
- Team Blue (Elizabeth Lu, Logan Pham, Jaden Hong, Grace Li, Olivia Han)
- 7th Place: Team Sun (Krystal Deng, Lily Kizirian, Kayla Hua, Jonathan Shiell, Jason Kuo, Tobin Hill)
- 12th Place: Team Red (Arin Pai, Ethan Van, Jua Kim, Larry Fan, Dana Elquza, Joy Long)
- 13th Place: Team Moon (Isabella Lin, Daniel Chien, Eric Zhu, Claire Luo, YuQiao Shao, Disha Vaithianadan, Aryaan Hussein)
- Outstanding Middle Schoolers: 1st - Grace Li, 2nd - Jaden Hong
- Outstanding Attorneys: Anya Luo, Christiana Garcia, Logan Pham, Krystal Deng, Daniel Chien, Dana Elquza
- Honorable Mention Attorneys: Elizabeth Lu, Audrey Ma, Christiana Garcia
- Outstanding Witnesses: Jonathan Shiell, Jaden Hong, Audrey Ma, Ethan Bai, Grace Li
- Honorable Mention Witnesses: Daniel Chien
National Online Forensics League - February (Live):
We were 1st in elementary school (with over twice the points of 2nd place) AND high school (with over twice the points of 2nd place) in sweepstakes points in the LIVE contest.
- Elementary SPAR: Gold - Grant Chien, Silver - Xiaoyan Yang, Bronze - Helen Yang, Aaron Li, Chelsea Qin
- Elementary Congress: Gold - Aarik Acharya, Silver - Rachael Sun, Bronze - Winston Lin, Lemuel Zhang
- Elementary Impromptu: Gold - Xiaoyan Yang, Silver - Ellie Wan, Bronze - Helen Yang, Eric Song
- Elementary Platform: Gold - Robyn Lai
- Elementary Storytelling: Bronze - Robyn Lai, Royce Xie, Ellie Wan
- Middle School Impromptu: Silver - YuQiao Shao
- Middle School Dramatic: Silver - Maribelle Ganelis
- Middle School SPAR: Bronze - Kelsey Wang
- High School LD: Gold - Mihika Gupta, 1st Speaker - Mihika Gupta
- High School Informative: Gold - Katelyn Chang
- High School Interp: Gold - Krishnni Khanna
- High School Persuasive: Gold - Yena Oh, Silver - Krishnni Khanna
- High School Impromptu: Silver - Kien Touissaint
Marlborough Debate (February):
Our students returned with awards in every debate category.
- World Schools Debate: 1st - Jiarui Jackie Li, Triston Yan, Dorothy Chen, Gordon Xu
- World Schools Speaker: 2nd - Triston Yan, 5th - Jiarui jackie Li, 7th - Dorothy Chen, 9th - Gordon Xu
- Middle School LD: 8th - Emma Lisowski, 9th - Alex Huang
- Middle School LD Speaker: 4th - Grace Chen, 10th - Emma Lisowski
- Novice LD: 10th - Harry Chen
- Novice PF: 6th - Elsa Zhou/Alexa Kim, 7th - Arvin Sachdeva/Max Yan
- Policy: 4th - Evan Choe/Roger Jiang, 5th - Ethan Yan
- Policy Speaker: 2nd - Evan Choe, 5th - Katherine Zheng, 6th - Roger Jiang, 7th - Katie Chen, 8th - Boyu (Tony) Li, 9th - Lucas Yang, 10th - Connor Chon
National Online Forensics League - February (Pre-Recorded):
We were 1st place in elementary school, 1st place in middle school, and one ranking away from 1st place in high school at this contest.
- Middle Assigned Platform: Silver - YuQiao Shao
- Middle Mock Trial: Gold - Manta Ma
- Middle Impromptu: Gold - Saura Charlu, Silver - YuQiao Shao, Bronze - Sissi Wan
- Middle Interp: Gold - Madelyn Tan, Silver - Dahun Lee
- Middle Oratory: Gold - Saura Charlu, Silver - YuQiao Shao
- High Declamation: Gold - Maanya Kaura, Silver - Krishnni Khanna, Bronze - Grace Ma, Sophia Lin
- High Extemp: Bronze - Raymond Wong
- High Informative: Silver - Maanya Kaur, Bronze - Jiayou Liu
- High Interp: Gold - Vicky Yang
- High Impromptu: Gold - Jiayou Liu, Bronze - Raymond Wong
- High Oratory: Bronze - Sofia Jackson, Krishnni Khanna, Yena Oh
- Elementary Debate: Gold - Alana Hill, Silver - Amelia Cao
- Elementary Impromptu: Gold - Matthew Song, Silver - Jordan Kim, Bronze - Sasha Zhou
- Elementary Interp: Gold - May Sun, Bronze - Sasha Zhou
- Elementary Platform: Gold - Gordon Yang, Silver - Amay Agarwal, Bronze - Jordan Kim, Amelia Cao
Also, our student Xiangzhe Li (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) took silver and bronze in Informative and Oratory, single-handedly winning college sweepstakes!
St. Genesius Tournament - online Tournament of Champions qualifier:
ModernBrain, sending a squad with a large number of middle schoolers, was the #1 Californian, #1 after-school, and #2 overall program.
- Informative: 2nd - Kathleen Hong (TOC Bid), 4th - Maanya Kaur (TOC Bid)
- Dramatic Interp: 2nd - Vicky Yang (TOC bid)
- POI: 2nd - Natalie Hong (TOC Bid), 4th - Pranya Nagpal (competing with school), Semifinals - Vicky Yang
- Impromptu: 3rd - Tianni Gong (middle schooler), 5th - Evan Liu (middle schooler), 6th - Sissi Wang (middle schooler), Semifinals - Betty Chen, Sahana Selvakumar (middle schooler)
- Humorous Interp: 7th - Riley Shin
- Oratory: Semifinals - YuQiao Shao (middle schooler), Quarterfinals - Maitland Wais, ZiQi Lin, Irene Cho (middle schooler)
Coppell Debate Academy in Texas:
BrainMaster, ModernBrain's partner, dominated this contest.
- Congress: 1st - Ryan Kim, 4th - Jaithr M Rangineni
- Extemp: 3rd - Jerry Zhang
- Lincoln-Douglas: 1st - Ryan Sarkar, 2nd - Joshua Guo
- Lincoln-Douglas Speaker: 1st - Ryan Sarkar, 2nd - Joshua Guo, 3rd - Aarna Gandhi
Claremont Wolfpack Results:
We had more championships than the next best teams COMBINED at this SoCal contest; there were 50+ schools present.
- Open Policy: 1st - Daniel Lu/Gloria He (middle schoolers)
- Open Policy Speaker: 1st - Daniel Lu, 2nd - Gloria He (middle schoolers)
- Middle School Policy: 1st - Zach Rastegar/Benjie Wald, 2nd - Mia Tian/Yoyo Li
- Middle School Policy Speaker: 1st - Samuel Cheng, 2nd - Zach Rastegar
- Middle School Public Forum: 1st - Elizabeth Lu/Alexa Kim, Semifinalists - Ivan Zhang/Raj Pathak
- Middle School Public Forum Speaker: 1st - Elizabeth Lu, 2nd - Leona Shi
- Middle School Oratory: 1st - YuQiao Shao, 2nd - Rachel Huang, 6th - Pranamya Aditham, 7th - Siying Wei
- Middle School Impromptu: 1st - YuQiao Shao, 4th - Tianni Gong
- Middle School Dramatic: 2nd - Camryn Mai
- Domestic Extemp: 1st - Claire Liu (NIETOC+TOC bid)
- POI: 1st - Natalie Hong (NIETOC+TOC bid)
- International Extemp: 3rd - Claire Liu (NIETOC+TOC bid)
- Informative: 4th - Kathleen Hong, Semifinalist - Anna Yan
- Humorous: 5th - Kathleen Hong
- Congress: 13th - Derek Song (middle schooler)
Stanford Results:
ModernBrain sent remote students to this online contest, earning awards in every major category (speech, debate, Congress)!
- JV LD: 2nd - Maximus Wang
- JV LD Speaker: 2nd - Maximus Wang
- Middle School LD: Semifinalist - Jason Rong
- Middle School LD Speaker: 7th - Jason Rong
- TOC LD: Triple-Octofinals - Ellie Shen
- Novice Congress: 4th - Brandi Wu
- Middle School Congress: 9th - Jacob Yuan
- TOC Congress: 11th - Anne Liu (TOC bid)
- Oratory: Quarterfinals - Giya Agarwal (Interlake)
- Impromptu: Quarterfinals - Giya Agarwal (Interlake)
- JV Impromptu: 4th - Evan Liu (middle schooler), 5th - Melody Mo (Harvard-Westlake, middle-schooler)
- Novice Impromptu: Quarterfinals - Oliver Dai (middle schooler)
- Novice Humorous: 6th - Oliver Dai (middle schooler)
- Dramatic: Semifinals - Melody Mo (Harvard-Westlake, middle-schooler)
- Novice SPAR: Semifinals - Melody Mo (Harvard-Westlake, middle-schooler)
MASQ February Results:
A small squad of our students took 4th at this international tournament of champions-qualifying contest!
- Declamation: 1st - Maanya Kaur, 2nd - Krishnni Khanna, 4th - Nathan Yuan
- JV Oratory: 2nd - YuQiao Shao, 4th - Irene Cho
- POI: 3rd - Natalie Hong (two NIETOC bids)
- Informative: 6th - Kathleen Hong (two NIETOC bids)
- Humorous Interp: Semifinals - Kathleen Hong, Riley Shin (NIETOC bid)
- Oratory: Semifinals - Maitland Wais (NIETOC bid)
UC Berkeley Results:
This is one of the largest and most competitive contests in the nation. We were proud to see so many students, including middle schoolers, advance!
- Middle School Congress: 1st - Carrie Rao
- POI: 3rd - Natalie Hong (TOC + NIETOC bids), Semifinals - Wenqi Yang (NIETOC bid)
- Informative: 5th - Kathleen Hong (TOC + NIETOC bids), Quarterfinals - Anna Yan, Meera Kalluraya (Archbishop Mitty, NIETOC bids)
- Impromptu: 5th - Luna Bouhairi (Northwood), Octofinals - Siri Chundru (Harker, middle schooler)
- Oratory: 5th - Luna Bouhairi (TOC + NIETOC bids, Northwood)
- Humorous: Quarterfinals - Kelly Liu (NIETOC bid)
- Novice Lincoln-Douglas: Octofinals, 6th Speaker - Rena Zhuang (middle schooler)
- JV Policy: Octofinals - Daniel Lu/Gloria He (middle schoolers)
- MS Public Forum: Octofinals - Elizabeth Lu/Kenton Roh (Fairmont)
- JV Lincoln-Douglas: Double-Octofinals, 3rd Speaker - Jason Rong
Our private students also excelled at smaller league and invitational contests.
University of Pennsylvania Liberty Bell Classic Results:
- Oratory: 6th - ZiQi Lin (BASIS Bilingual School Shenzhen, TOC bid)
Cal Async TOC Results:
- Oratory: 5th - Maitland Wais (TOC bid)
WBFL Spring Results:
- Informative: 1st - Jada Lin (Peninsula)
- Jason Zhang was the Best Delegate!
Plano ISD February Frenzy:
- Akshitha Bhaarath was a Congress and Extemp finalist!
Harvard:
- Middle School Congress: Semifinals - Jacob Yuan
- Public Forum: Double-Octofinals - Kylie Zhang/Audrey Ballon
Tournament of Champions Digital Qualifier #3:
- Congress: 4th - Annie Liu (TOC Bid)
- Oratory: Semifinals - Maitland Wais
