Leaders Academy 리더스아카데미

Leaders Academy continued its streak of winning Korea’s largest elementary tournament
Breakerssss (Grace Kim, Jenny Shin, Sophie Choi & Yaya Liu) - made it to day two
Devengers (Hyunjoon Jong, Josephine Kim, Kelly Kim & Lauren Kim) - lost only one round over the entire event
ChatterBox (Elyse Oh, Jungwon Lee, Sophia Jeon & Sophia Kang) - made it to day two
Revengers (Jaey Lee, Jiho Kim, Sunwoo Lee & Tony Ha) - made it to day two.
WWW (Ellie Nam, Jaden Yu, Minkyu Jeon & Sunny Jun) - made it to day two.
LOGICS (Claire Yoo, Ian Kim, Jimin Lee & Zooey Allen) - lost only one round over the entire tournament
Bulgogi (Ga-eun Ryu, Jaehoon Jung, Jayden Kim & Yena Choi) - GRAND CHAMPIONS

43 BP teams from around East Asia competed in this Cambridge Schools Qualifier
Park Patrol (Junseo David Park & Junwoo Daniel Park) - broke 14th, Quarterfinalists
St Paul 2 Clever by Half (Bill Cho & Seah Jin) - broke 8th, Quarterfinalists
KIS Ultra Mega Jamminonoes (Sean Lee & Sua Bae) - broke 11th, Quarterfinalists
SFS Kitchen Sink (Ein Chung & Eliana Joo) - broke 5th, Quarterfinalists Ein was Top Speaker, Eliana was 3rd best speaker
HAFS Sofort (Chehwan Kim & Junhow Hwang) - broke 1st in U16, were U16 CHAMPIONS.
SIS Kings (Joseph Kang & Sean Chung) - broke 3rd, Grand Finalists

WSDC format tournament with 50 teams
Leaders Knights (Chehwan Kim, Irene Park, Minnie Kim, & Yoon Kim) - Quarterfinalists
Leaders Queens (Avery Nam, Calire Na, Minjoo Kim & Seah Jin) - 3rd in Novice Division
Novice Speaker Top 25 included Seah Jin #3, Yoon Kim #8, Sean Chung #11, Minnie Kim #14, Minjoo Kim #16, Bill Cho #21, Irene Park #22 & Joseph Kang #25.
Junior Speakers Top 25 included Seah Jin #7, Yoon Kim #12, Chehwan Kim #14, Sean Chun #15, Minnie Kim #19, Minjoo Kim #21, Bill Cho #23,
Irene Park #24 & Elliot Suh #25

24 teams competed. Team Mage (U13) was 2nd to only the national debate team.
Mage (Claire Na, Daniel Kwon & Jaehoon Jung) - U13 Semifinalists
Full Moon (David Park, Dillon Kim & Mia Davis) - U14 Finalists
Roller Coaster (Joseph Kang, Kevin Kim & Sean Chung) - U15 CHAMPIONS
Shushing (Annie Cho, Bill Cho & Jiseo Lee) - U15 Finalists
Snowman (Jane Helen Lee, Kadyn Jung & Seah Jin) - U15 Semifinalists
Leaders: #1 Joseph Kang, #3 tie of Keving Kim & Sean Chung, #7 Bill Cho, #8 Annie Cho, #10 Jiseo Lee & #11 Junseo Lee.

Jr & Sr divisions of Persuasive Speaking, Interpretive Reading & Impromptu Speaking
Persuasive Speaking Junior Division: Jeeyoo Kim - 3rd & Zooey Allen - 7th. Senior Division: Jane Helen Lee & Laenne Yoon - tied for 2nd. Junseo Lee - 5th.
Interpretive Reading Junior Division: Jeeyoo Kim - 1st & Zooey Allen - 3rd. Senior Division: Jane Helen Lee - 2nd, Junseo Lee - 9th & Leanne Yoon - 10th.
Impromptu Speaking Senior: Allison Kim - 5th & Leanne Yoon - 6th. Overall: Junior: Jeeyoo Kim - 4th
Senior: Leanne Yoon - CHAMPION, Jane Helen Lee - 7th, Junseo Lee - 9th.

80 General League teams (20 from Leaders) & 30 EFL teams (5 from Leaders). Grades 6-9.
All five EFL League teams advanced, a perfect record once again. Incendio (Gaeun Lily Heo, Sooyoung Sue Nam & Yewon Ella Im) - were EFL Quarterfinalists.
Twinkle Twinkle Basilisk (Diana Jung, John Kwon & Olivia Oh) and Breakers (Grace Kim, Jenny Shin & Yaya Liu) - both advanced to EFL Octofinals.
Blobfish was undefeated in prelims & the Top-Breaking EFL Team, they made it to EFL Octofinals.
Sunny Jun was the Top EFL Speaker, Hyun Joon Jung was #3 & Hael Lee was #4.
Utopia (Ellie Key, Ga-eun Ryu & Sian Chang) - broke third and were ultimately the EFL GRAND CHAMPIONS. Sian & Ellie also tied for 7th best EFL speaker.
Leaders teams in the General League saw 11/32 Double Octos (34%), 7/16 Octofinalists (44%), after which it was set, 4 Leaders teams would fight it out to be in the Grand Finals.
General League Double Octofinalists included Patrick Debateman (Dano Kim, Lauren Kim & Yubin Baek) broke 31st, Hotshots (Colin Oh, Juwon Park & Kayden Hong) broke 29th, Also in Double Octos were S and B (Eliana Joo, Jion Choi & Jiseo Lee) broke 23rd with 3 wins & FYI (Jayden Lee, Rachel Yeun Lee & William Suh) broke 19th with 3 wins General League Octofinalists included 12th breaking Moggers (Claire Na, Daniel Kwon & Jaehoon Jung), 8th breaking Armored (Jeeyoo Kim, Jimin Lee & Zooey Allen), Rounding out our Octofinalists was 6th breaking Knockouts (Kevin Kim, Minjoo Kim & Seah Jin), where Kevin Kim was #2 General League Speaker and Minjoo Kim was #7.
General League Quarterfinalists included 9th breaking Galvanized Square Steel (David Park, Heejin Avery Nam & Jaden Yang) who had 3 wins and high speaks
in Prelims, and LeDonTatum (Bill Cho, Joseph Kang & Sean Chung) were undefeated in prelims, beating the General League Champions.
They finished as Quarterfinalists.
General League Semifinals extended the Leaders v Leaders of Quarters with 16th breaking UMJ Sigma (Abraham Yoo, Jihan Sean Lee & Sua Bae) falling to the Leaders Finalists. Cookin (Elliot Suh, Minnie Kim & Yoon Kim) went undefeated until the last round, but came up just shy of the perfect record as General League Grand Finalists.

PawPrints (Daniel Jeongmin Kwon & Jaehoon Jung) - broke 1st in U13 & were U13 CHAMPIONS.
Daniel ranked 8th best speaker, and Jaehoon ranked 10th best speaker.
Cartwheel (Brooke Lai & Claire Lee) - broke 1st in U18 & were U18 CHAMPIONS. Brooke was the 2nd best speaker, and Claire ranked 6th best speaker.
U13 Finalists included Plug (Eliana Joo & Sian Chang) - , and Disappointed (Juhan Kim & Ryan Cho) - were U13 Quarterfinalists.
Eliana ranked 10th and Sian ranked 13th in U13. Ryan ranked 27th and Juhan ranked 28th in U13.
Thermometer (Joseph Kang and Sua Bae) - were Semifinalists in U15, and Joseph was the 7th best speaker, Sua ranked 17th.
Smiling Eyes and Fist Hand - were U18 Semifinalists. Irene Park was 1st best speaker and Jaesuh was 2nd. Kaiden ranked 4th and Daniel ranked 13th in U18.

59 teams from Australia, China, Singapore, and other Asian countries competed in this event.
Astonished (Chloe Jung, Yoojoon Kwon, and Erica Ma) unfortunately didn’t break.
House (Ga-eun Ryu, Heiryung Claire Na, and Lauren Kim) was the 6th team and Octofinalist in U-13. Ga-eun and Claire were the 6th best speakers in U-11, and Lauren was
8th best speaker in U-11 and Northeast Asia.
Baggage (Evan Won, Chloe Chae, and Tony Hyun) - were Octofinalists in U-12. Chloe was 6th best speaker and Tony was 7th best speaker in U-11.
Billiards (Sophia Kang, Roy Kim, and Benjamin Ahn) - were Semifinalists in U-11. Roy was the 8th best speaker in U-10. Sophia and Benjamin were 10th in U-11.

80 teams competed in this WSDC event.
Lasses (Leah Lim, Jiwoo Kim, Erica Ma and Zooey Allen) and Longevity (Roy Kim, Chloe Chae and Tony Hyun) both advanced to Quarterfinalists.
Longevity was Top 3, U11 team and Lasses was Top 8 U13 team.
Laugh (Sofia kwon, Chloe Jung, Ryan Ko and Kelly Kim) were U 13 Finalist and Top 3 U13 team. Sofia Kwon was 10th best U13 speaker and Kelly was BEST OVERALL
SPEAKER and also TOP U13 SPEAKER.
Legends was Semifinalists, Top 8 team and 5th breaking in Open. Kadyn was 15th best overall speaker.
Congratulations to Listen (Seah Jin, Abraham Yoo, Irene Park, Sue Park and Kevin Kim) for becoming CHAMPIONS and Top breaking open team.
Seah was 8th best overall speaker and kevin was 17th best overall speaker.

Teams from Australia , China, Singapore competed in AERRO 7.
KR1 (Kyle Son, Doehoon Kim, Yunje Roh and Jaden Yu) were Grand Finalists and Top Korean Team. Kyle was Top Korean Speaker , Top Age 12 speaker and 3rd overall
speaker. Doehoon was Top 4 Korean speaker, 4th Age 10 speaker. Yunje was Top 5 Korean speaker and 7th Age 11 speaker. Jaden was Top 6 Korean speaker and 3rd
Age 12 speaker.
KR2 (Celine Kim, Ian Baik and Jayden Yu) were Top Age 9 Team. Celine was Top 6 Korean speaker and 2nd Age 9 speaker. Ian was Top 8 Korean speaker and 3rd Age 9
speaker. Jayden was Top 9 Korean speaker and 4th Age 9 speaker.
KR3 (Jian Shim, Jungjoo Kim, Jiwoo Shin and Doyi Yoo) were Top Age 8 Team. Jian was Top 2 Korean speaker and Top Age 8 speaker. Jungjoo was Top 3 Korean
speaker and 2nd Age 8 speaker. Jiwoo was Top 10 Korean speaker and 3rd Age 8 speaker. Doyi was Top 11 Korean speaker and 4th Age 8 speaker.

82 teams from Asia competed in this event.
Fries (Ian Baik, Maxi Kim and Soyun Lee) advanced to the Semi Final in U-10 and Wolf (Elva Lee, Crystal Yoon and Emily In) were Quarterfinalists.
Ian was Co #4 speakers and Maxi was 2nd speaker in U-9. Soyun was #9 speaker in U-10. Elva and Emily were Co #10 speakers in U-10.
Full Moon (Sunny Jun, Leauren Kim and Ellie Nam) were Semifinalists in U-13. Sunny was one of Co #10 speakers in U-13 and South Korea. Lauren was one of #9
speaker in U-13, South Korea and Northeast Asia.
Ribbon (Michael Jegal, Sophia Kang and Elin Park) were Grandfinalists in U-11. Michael was Co 8th speaker and Sophia was 10th speaker in U-11. Elin was 4th
speaker in U-11 and Co 10th speaker in South Korea and Northeast Asia.
Roller Coaster (Jeremy Cha, Jessie Park and Tony Ha) were Semifinalists in U-13. Tony was Co 9th speaker in U-12.
Snowman (Kayden Hong, Juwon Park and Daoom Ra) were Grandfinalists in U-13.
Truck (Gianna Kim, Ella Kim and Agnes Kim) didn’t break.
Unalive (Chloe Jung, Leo Lim and Emma Jeong) didn't break, but Chloe and Emma were Co 9th speaker in U-9.

10 teams competed in KSDA Junior and 16 teams competed in KSDA senior.
In KSDA Junior, Telescope (Roy Kim, Tony Hyun, Ryan Ko and Elizabeth Seo) were Semifinalists. Roy was #2, Tony was #3, Ryan was #1 speaker and Elizabeth was #1
reply speaker. Mammoth (Hai Lee, Jayden Bahk, Ryan Kim and Ryan Kwak), Scales (Hannah Kim, Celine Kim and Sunmin Kim), Croc (Leo Lim, Liam Won and Kevin Lee)
and Pager (Chloe Jung, Crystal Yoon, Emily In and Emily Jung) didn’t break. Bat (Hyewon Lee, Sia Ryu and Alex Park) were Grandfinalists. Gear (Doehoon Kim, Kyle
Son, Jaden Yu and Yunje Roh) were Semifinalists.
Shortcake (Chehwan Kim and Daniel Kwon) were Grandfinalists. Chehwan Kim was 2nd best speaker and Daniel was 5th best speake

The Oxford Union Society

The Cambridge Union Society

Partner Organizations

KIDA (Korea Intervarsity Debate Association)

wsdc.korea

Korea Forensics League

Yale Debate Association (YDA)

ESU-korea

YTN·한국외대 청소년 영어토론대회

World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC)

PPF WORLD CHAMPION

World Scholar’s Cup (WSC)

IISPSC

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