February 2025 - ModernBrain Results
Feb 24, 2025
National Online Forensics League - February:
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
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!
Harvard:
- Middle School Congress: Semifinals - Jacob Yuan
- Public Forum: Double-Octofinals - Kylie Zhang/Audrey Ballon
