October 2024 - ModernBrain Results Recap

Claremont Bargain Belt:

ModernBrain took 1st out of 77 teams at the Claremont Bargain Belt tournament for the second consecutive year!

Debate Results:

• Open Policy: Semifinals - William Lin & Nesara Shetty, Charlie Pan & Stella Pellier, Octofinals - Katie Chen & Katherine Zhang, Gloria He & Daniel Lu, Eugene Kim & Sean Lim, Yoyo Li & Patrick Quon, Jiacheng Liu & Daniel Tay
• Open Policy Speaker: 4th - William Lin, 5th - Daniel Lu, 7th - Charlie Pan
• Open Congress: 2nd - Carrie Rao
• Novice Congress: 1st - Brian Tan, 7th - Nish Wadhwa
• Novice LD: Quarterfinals - Benjamin Haselhuhn
• Novice PF: Octofinals - Melody Le & Miranda Le, Ryan Kong & Ivan Zhang, Elsa Zhou & Elizabeth Lu
• Novice PF Speaker: 7th - Miranda Le
• Novice Parliamentary Speaker: 4th - Vivian Chen

Speech Results:

• Novice Impromptu: Jiayou Liu - 1st, Sofia Patel - 2nd, Rachel Huang - 4th, Pranamya Aditham - 5th, Lawrence Zhou — 6th, Oliver Dai — Semifinals
• Novice Informative: Maanya Kaur — 2nd, Jiayou Liu - 3rd
• Novice Oratory: Sofia Patel - 1st, Rachel Huang - 3rd, Sophia Lin — Semifinals
• Open Impromptu: Luna Bouhairi — 3rd
• Open Declamation: Giovanna Chui — 4th, Sissi Wang — Semifinals
• Open Informative: Kathleen Hong — 1st/TOC/NIETOC Bid, Anna Yan - 5th, Janet Zhao - 6th, Izzie Tran — Semifinals
• Open Oratory: Sofia Jackson — Semifinals
• Open POI: Natalie Hong — 2nd/TOC Bid

National Online Forensics League October:

Our elementary schoolers took 1st place at this virtual contest.

• Elementary Impromptu: Emma Tran - Gold, Sasha Zhou - Silver, Nayomi Zheng - Honors
• Elementary Storytelling: Robyn Lai - Gold, Hanleen Jin - Silver
• Elementary SPAR: Grant Chien - Gold, Angie Li - Honors, Helen Yang - Honors
• Elementary Congress: Matthew Li - Gold, James Leung - Bronze, Aayush Bedi - Bronze
• Elementary Persuasive: Gordon Yang - Silver
• Elementary Informative: Helen Yang - Bronze
• Middle School LD: Jason Rong - Silver, Maximus Wang - Bronze
• Middle School Public Forum: Audrey Ballon & Kylie Zhang - Silver
• High School Interp: Nathan Yuan - Silver
• High School Congress: Ulysses Hsu - Bronze

Then, our elementary AND middle schoolers took 1st in the pre-recorded contest.

• High School Extemp/Impromptu: Gold - Kien Touissant
• High School Platform/Congress: Gold - Zihan Li
• Middle School Impromptu: Gold - Jiayou Liu, Bronze - Tianni Gong, Bronze - Lawrence Zhou
• Middle School Congress: Gold - Sally Mao, Bronze - Leah Feigenbaum, Bronze - Mishaal Aslam
• Middle School Platform: Gold - Jiayou Liu, Silver - Pranamya Aditham, Bronze - Claudia Li
• Middle School Storytelling: Gold - Evan Liu, Silver - Madelyn Tan, Bronze - Sasha Zhou (elementary schooler!)
• Middle School Interp: Gold - Tianni Gong, Silver - Lawrence Zhou, Bronze - Alana Hill (elementary schooler!)
• Middle School Async Debate: Bronze - Alana Hill (elementary schooler!)
• Middle School Declamation: Bronze - Madelyn Tan
• Elementary School Oratory: Gold - Alana Hill, Silver - Gordon Yang
• Elementary School Informative: Gold - Yushu Qiao, Silver - Elsa Tsai
• Elementary School Congress: Silver - Iraj Upadhyaya, Bronze - Kali Wang

Results at Mock Trial contests:

ModernBrain sent four novice/JV teams to the October International Mock Trial invitational (10/11-13/24), which drew national champions from Shanghai and Beijing, state champions from Florida and Georgia, and contestants from South Korea to California.

23 of our 26 contestants had never participated in this league before. Every team walked away in the top half of the field.

• Team Rankings: Gold (Anya Luo, Christiana Garcia, Vivian Mei, Daniel Chien, Tobin Hill, James Zhou, Lily Kizirian) -- 3rd Place, Silver (Mira Jiang, Aryaan Hussain, Johnny Shiell, YuQiao Shao, Eric Zhu, Isabella Lin, Kayla Hua) -- Honorable Mention
• Top Attorneys: Anya Luo (1st overall), Mira Jiang, Priyanka Singh, Elizabeth Lu
• Top Witnesses: Logan Pham (1st overall), Christiana Garcia, Daniel Chien, Mira Jiang, Johnny Shiell, Olivia Han

Then, ModernBrain attended the Empire Virtual World Championship (Stardust).

• Team Rankings: Sun (Anya Luo, Christiana Garcia, Vivian Mei, James Zhou, Jiachen Qiu, Audrey Ma, Sailee Charlu, Mira Jiang, Ethan) - 9th in the world!
  
• Top Attorney: Christiana Garcia
• Top Witness: Christiana Garcia (1st overall in the world!)

Results at Model United Nations contests:

ModernBrain, proud coaches of the Pacific Academy team, sent a squad to SOCOMUN (9/29/24).

• Commendation: Daniel Dong, Timothy Liu

• Outstanding Delegate: Miller Yang

Then, we sent a squad to a college-level contest, PACMUN (10/5/24).

• Commendation: Peyton Tan
• Outstanding + Distinguished Delegate: Saskia Hill (middle schooler!)

Results at Texas tournaments:

We sent many middle schoolers to the Coppell Swing (a Texas Forensics Association/TFA-qualifying high school contest).

• Congress: Aliya Sil -- semifinals (a middle schooler)
• Novice Lincoln-Douglas: Nikhil Pillai, Roger Zhang, Sean Yin, Arjun Sargur -- octofinals, Nikhil Pillai -- 6th speaker, Roger Zhang -- 10th speaker