March 2025 - ModernBrain Results

International Mock Trial (Elimination Rounds)

This was the largest virtual international trial advocacy tournament of the year. ModernBrain has now advanced four teams to the top three (semifinals) out of 44 squads from across the world - a tremendous result.

• 1st Place - Team Gold (Sailee Charlu, Audrey Ma, Ethan Bai, Christiana Garcia)
• 2nd Place - Team Silver (James Zhou, Anya Luo, Jiachen Qiu, Vivian Mei, Mira Jiang, Angelia Li)
• 3rd Place - Team Blue (Elizabeth Lu, Logan Pham, Jaden Hong, Grace Li, Olivia Han) 

Dominion Mock Trial (Canadian Championship):

Our teams swept the contest and took 1st, 2nd, 3rd, AND 4th.

• 1st Place: Team 2 (Grace Li, Matthew Shen, Jaden Hong, Skylar Chen, Maxwell Liu, Ethan Van)
• 2nd Place: Team 4 (Jason Kuo, Vivian Mei, Anya Luo, Kayla Hua, Christiana Garcia)
• 3rd: Team 1 (Allen Chen, Elizabeth Lu, Arin Pai, Larry Fan, Shawn Zhao, Syler Patel, Joy Long)
• 4th: Team 3 (Tobin Hill, Lily Kizirian, Krystal Deng, Isabella Lin, Claire Luo, Disha Vaithianadan, Eric Zhu, Aryaan Hussein) 

We also won EVERY witness and attorney award:

• WITNESSES: 1st - Anya Luo, 2nd - Isabella Lin, 3rd Place - Kayla Hua, 5th - Larry Fan
• ATTORNEYS: First Place - Christiana Garcia/Jason Kuo, Third.Place - Syler Patel/Elizabeth Lu, Fifth Place - Tobin Hill

National Online Forensics League March (live):

Our students dominated the elementary contest, winning twice the team sweepstakes points as the next-best team.

• High School Informative: Gold - Alissa Tai
• High School Dramatic: Silver - Giovanna Chui
• Middle School Oratory: Gold - Sofia Patel
• Middle School Dramatic: Gold - Oliver Dai
• Middle School Impromptu: Bronze - Sofia Patel
• Middle School Congress: Bronze - Aarik Acharya
• Middle School Informative: Bronze - Jiayi Gao
• Elementary Impromptu: Silver - Ryan Jing, Bronze - Xiaoyan Yang, Eric Song
• Elementary Storytelling: Gold - Elsa Tsai, Silver - Royce Xie, Hanleen Jin
• Elementary SPAR: Gold - Grant Chien, Hanleen Jin, Silver - Royce Xie, Bronze - Xiaoyan Yang, Hanleen Jin
• Elementary Informative: Silver - Amay Agarwal
• Elementary Persuasive: Bronze - Ryan Jing

National Online Forensics League March (pre-recorded):

We swept this contest, winning the elementary, middle, and high school divisions.

• Elementary Impromptu: Gold - Kyler Ji, Silver - Ishika Cavaturu

• Elementary Informative: Gold - Amay Agarwal, Silver - Isaac Lei

• Elementary Oratory: Gold - Isaac Lei, Silver - Kyler Ji, Bronze - Lily Tao

• Elementary Storytelling: Gold - Victoria Wan, Silver - Lily Tao, Bronze - George Feng

• Elementary Interp: Silver - Grace Meng & Leslie Woo

• Elementary Async Debate: Bronze - Kyler Ji

• Middle Dramatic: Gold - Dahun Lee, Silver - Camryn Mai

• Middle Impromptu: Gold - Maribelle Ganelis, Silver - Jiajun Han

• Middle Congress: Silver - Carrie Rao, Bronze - Brian Tan, Adalyn Lam-Lo

• Middle Informative: Silver - Ela Shamsai, Bronze - Maribelle Ganelis

• High School Interp: Gold - Vicky Yang, Silver - Vicky Yang

• High School Humorous: Gold - Kelly Liu

• High Informative: Gold - Katelyn Chang

• High Mock Trial: Silver - Lucia Yu

Philhistorian:

We took championships in two of the four largest events at this national contest.

• Elementary Impromptu: 1st - Xiaoyan Yang, 2nd - Ellie Wan, 7th - Rachael Sun, 23rd - Charlotte Perel
• Elementary SPAR: 1st - Xiaoyan Yang, 8th - Ellie Wan, 9th - Hanleen Jin, 17th - Auria Dutta, 18th - Chelsea Qin, 41st - Adam Jin
• Middle School LD: Quarterfinals - Yihong Simba Zhang, Octofinals - Roger Zhang
• Middle School LD Speaker: 7th Speaker - Roger Zhang
• High School LD Speaker: 2nd Speaker - Nikhil Pillai; 3rd Speaker - Mihika Gupta
• Middle School Policy: 1st - Aurora Tseng/Connor Chon, 2nd - Roger Jiang/Samuel Cheng, 3rd - Katherine Zhang/Katie Chen
• Middle School Policy Speaker: 1st Speaker - Samuel Cheng, 2nd Speaker - Connor Chon, 3rd Speaker - Aurora Tseng, 4th Speaker - Katherine Zhang, 5th Speaker - Joyce Lyu
• Middle School Public Forum: Semifinals - Elsa Zhou/Elizabeth Lu
• Congress: 7th - Triston Yan
• Extemporaneous: 1st - Jiayou Liu (middle schooler!)
• Humorous Interp: 2nd - Dahun Lee (middle schooler!), 3rd - Kelly Liu
• Oratory: 3rd - Irene Cho (middle schooler)

Tournament of Champions Qualifying Contests:

Some of our students attended highly competitive, multi-state speech contests. They returned with qualifying 'bids' (invitations to join) the Tournament of Champions.

• Informative: 3rd - Izzie Tran (TOC Bid)
• POI: 3rd - Anna Feng (TOC Bid), 4th - Vicky Yang
• Oratory: 4th - Irene Cho (TOC Bid, middle schooler)
• Dramatic Interp: 5th - Irene Cho (middle schooler), 6th - Giovanna Chui

Then, they got more bids from the Rainbow Classic, where we took 4th in sweepstakes (#1 academy).

• POI: 1st - Natalie Hong (NIETOC bid), 3rd - Anna Feng (NIETOC bid), Semifinals - Vicky Yang
• Informative: 2nd - Kathleen Hong (NIETOC bid), 6th - Maanya Kaur (NIETOC bid), Semifinals - Jada Lin (Peninsula, NIETOC bid)
• Dramatic: Semifinals - Anna Feng (NIETOC bid)
  

National Qualifying Contests (California)

We were proud to see our students from the Southern California, West Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, and California Coast districts advance to final rounds and nationals!

• Dramatic: 2nd - Iris Ye (Peninsula, West LA)
• Humorous: 5th - Kathleen Hong (Troy, East LA)
• Informative: 2nd - Kathleen Hong (Troy, East LA), 2nd - Meera Kalluraya (Archbishop Mitty, Coast), 7th - Izzie Tran (Laguna Hills, SoCal)
• Oratory: 3rd - Luna Bouhairi (Northwood, SoCal)
• POI: 2nd - Iris Ye (Peninsula, West LA), 2nd - Natalie Hong (Sunny Hills, SoCal), 5th - Pranya Nagpal (Evergreen Valley, Coast)
• US Extemp: 1st - Claire Liu (Portola, SoCal)

State Qualifying Contests (California)

Students from across the state participated in their leagues' state qualifiers under their schools' names.

• Humorous: 5th - Kathleen Hong (Orange County Forensics League), 7th - Riley Shin (Tri-County Forensics League)
  
• Impromptu: 2nd - Luna Bouhairi (Orange County Forensics League), 3rd - Izzie Tran (Orange County Forensics League), 13th - Meera Kalluraya (Coast Forensics League)
• Informative: 2nd - Kathleen Hong (Orange County Forensics League), 3rd - Izzie Tran (Orange County Forensics League), 6th - Anna Yan (Orange County Forensics League)
• International Extemp: 3rd - Claire Liu (Orange County Forensics League)
• National Extemp: 1st - Annie Jiang (Orange County Forensics League), 2nd - Claire Liu (Orange County Forensics League)
• Parliamentary Debate: 2nd - Ellen Tan (Orange County Forensics League), 4th - Cheryll Prabakaran (Orange County Forensics League)
• POI: 2nd - Natalie Hong (Orange County Forensics League), 8th - Pranya Nagpal (Coast Forensics League)
• Congress: 3rd - Zixiang Zheng (Orange County Forensics League),