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) 

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

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)
  

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),