November 2024 - ModernBrain Results Recap

THS Model United Nations:

Our students from ModernBrian and Pacific Academy excelled at the Tustin conference.

• Middle School: Outstanding - Anthony, Commendation - Adrian, Conrad, Nolan, Mira, Ted
• Novice: Best Research - Hector, Outstanding - Alex, Cindy, Miller, Kaz, Drew, Commendation - Elaine, Pyron, Logan, Steph, Joshua, Bryan
• Advanced: Outstanding - Daniel Dong, Commendation - Emma Wallis, Jessie Li

Philhistorian:

Our policy debaters dominated both divisions.

• Open Policy: 1st - Gloria He & Daniel Lu, 2nd - William Lin & Nesara Shetty
• Novice Policy: 1st - Patrick Quon & Lucas Yang, 2nd - Ethan Yan & Tony Li, 3rd - Katherine Zhang & Katie Chen, 4th - Roger Jiang & Samuel Cheng, 5th - Connor Chon & Evan Choe, 6th - Victor Yang & Mia Tian

National Online Forensics League November Async:

We took 1st in elementary, 1st in MS, and 2nd in HS--winning by more than the second and third place teams' points combined.

• HS Mock Trial: Gold - Tobin Hill, Silver - Jason Kuo
• HS Declamation: Silver - Krishnni Khanna
• HS Oratory/Impromptu: Silver - Sofia Jackson, Bronze - Kelly Liu
• ES Informative: Gold - Ayaana Jha, Silver - Grant Chien, Bronze - Amay Agarwal
• ES Oratory: Gold - Gordon Yang, Silver - Jordan Kim, Bronze - Lily Tao, Helen Chiu
• ES Storytelling: Gold - Anne Wong, Silver - Victoria Wan, Bronze - Lily Tao
• ES Congress: Gold - Anne Wong
• ES Debate: Gold - Alana Hill
• ES Impromptu: Silver - Victoria Wan
• MS Congress: Gold - Carrie Rao, Silver - Brian Tan, Bronze - Anne Wong [x2]
• MS Impromptu: Gold - Jiayou Liu, Bronze - Saura Charlu, Bronze - Sissi Wang
• MS Intepretation: Gold - Irene Cho, Silver - Melody Mo, Bronze - Tianni Gong, Madelyn Tan
• MS Oratory: Gold - YuQiao Shao
• MS Declamation: Bronze - Sissi Wang
• MS Informative: Bronze - Jiayou Liu
  

John Lewis (11/24/24):

We sent a small squad to NorCal. 

• Informative: Kathleen Hong took 1st, earning a TOC + NIETOC bid!
• POI: Natalie Hong took 2nd; Pranya Nagpal (Evergreen) took 5th!
• Open LD: Aaron Mao made octofinals.
• Novice LD: Jason Rong made octofinals. Ryan Xiao made double-octofinals.
• Novice PF: Raj Pathak/Max Yan made triple-octofinals

UCLA (11/17/24);

Kathleen Hong (Troy) took 2nd in Informative; Janet Zhao (University) took 5th!

Marlborough Debate (11/16/24):

Our middle schoolers, some of whom were competing in LD for the first time, dominated the high school novice LD and Policy categories.

• Novice Lincoln-Douglas: 1st - Charlie Pan, 2nd - Daniel Lu, 4th - Jayden Lee [all MS students!]
• Novice Lincoln-Douglas Speakers: 1st - Charlie Pan, 3rd - Jayden Lee, 6th - Gloria He [all MS students!]
• MS Lincoln-Douglas: 3rd - Ethan Yan, 5th - Patrick Quon
• MS Lincoln-Douglas Speakers: 6th - Ethan Yan, 7th - Boyu (Tony) Li, 8th - Patrick Quon, 10th - Lucas Yang
• MS Policy: 1st - Katie Chen/Katherine Zhang, 2nd - Bella Tan/Melody Wu, 3rd - Evan Choe/Connor Hon, 4th - Samuel Cheng/Roger Jiang
• MS Policy Speakers: 1st - Melodu Wu, 2nd - Katherine Zhang, 3rd - Katie Chen, 4th - Bella Tan, 5th - Evan Choe, 6th, - Connor Chon, 7th - Aurora Tseng, 8th - Joyce Lyu, 9th - Roger Jiang, 10th - Krishna Kumar
  

Coppell Debate Academy (11/16/24):

Our BrainMaster partners in Texas swept this contest.

• Lincoln-Douglas: 1st - Joshua Gao, 2nd - Roger Zhang, 3rd - Tanvi Dravid
• Congress: 1st (tie) - Max Lin, Matthew Li, 5th - Victoria Wong, 7th - Akshitha Bhaarath
• Extemp: 1st - Akshitha Bhaarath 
• World Schools: 1st - Claudia Li/Kristin Qiao

Rock Hill (11/26/24):

Our Texas students, competing under their schools' names, did very admirably!

• Novice Lincoln-Douglas: 2nd - Ryan Samuel, 3rd - Mihika Gupta

National Online Forensics League Elm (11/16/24):

Our elementary schoolers continued their streak of winning team sweepstakes. This time, they won by more than the 2nd and 3rd place teams' scores--combined.

• Elementary Impromptu: Gold - Anne Wong, Silver - Charlotte Ye, Bronze - Xiaoyan Yang, Emma Tran
• Elementary Persuasive: Gold - Jordan Kim, Silver - Emma Tran
• Elementary SPAR: Gold - Grant Chien, Silver - Helen Yang, Bronze - Anne Wong, Charlotte Ye, Royce Xie
• Elementary Storytelling: Gold - Royce Xie, Silver - Anne Wong
• MS Parliamentary: Gold - Rohan Gangadhare/Soham Shah
• MS Parliamentary Speaker: 1st - Rohan Gangadhare
• MS SPAR: Bronze - Andy Chen, Viraaj Chatterjee
• MS Congress: Bronze - Celina Wang
• MS Humorous: Bronze - Lawrence Zhou
• MS Impromptu: Bronze - Navya Madkan
• HS Informative: Gold - Brady Bai
• HS Interp: Silver - Vicky Yang
  

Walnut Grove Texas Forensics Association (11/10/24):

ModernBrain's Texas team, BrainMaster, sent a series of middle schoolers to excel at this high school-level contest.

• Novice Public Forum: Semifinals - Evelyn & Saanvi
• Novice Lincoln-Douglas: Quarterfinals - Ryan Sarkar, Cathy Yan, Octofinals - Kiaan Sethia, Joshua Guo, Roger Zhang [Ryan Samuel should have broken by TFA rules, but the tournament imposed their own tiebreaker]
• Novice Lincoln-Douglas Speaker: 6th - XinRan Yan, 7th - Ryan Samuel, 8th - Joshua Guo, 9th - Roger Zhang
• Congress: 16th - Aliya Sil

Quarry Lane (11/3/24):

ModernBrain sent students in Lincoln-Douglas and Policy Debate. Our students won first place in both categries.

• Novice Lincoln Douglas: 1st - Charles Guo, Quarterfinalist - Jason Rong
  
• Novice Lincoln Douglas Speaker: 5th - Jason Rong, 6th - Charles Guo, 10th- Rena Zhuang 
• Novice Policy: 1st - Gloria He & Daniel Lu
• Novice Policy Speaker: 1st - Daniel Lu, 2nd-  Gloria He, 9th - Katherine Zhang
• Varsity Lincoln Douglas Speaker: 4th - Ellie Shen

OCSL Fall (11/3/24):

Our students excelled in the Orange County Speech League's competition.

• Informative: 1st - Kathleen Hong (Troy), 3rd - Anna Yan (Northwood)
• Extemp: 1st - Claire Liu (Portola)
• POI: 2nd - Natalie Hong (Troy)
• Congress: 2nd - Zixiang Zheng (University)

Triton MUN (11/3/24):

Peyton Tan won a Research Award!