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
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