The Mock Review with Ben and Drew

Ben and Drew return to your feed to announce that this is the final scheduled episode of The Mock Review, and then discuss this year's case and their general thoughts on AMTA, transparency, and where things go from here.

Ben and Drew are joined by 2023 Trial by Combat Champion Travis Harper of Harvard Mock Trial. Travis returns to the show to discuss their experience during the 2023 AMTA season, how Harvard handled taking a hybrid A/B team to AMTA Nationals, why Travis decided to return to TBC for a third time, and what it was like to end his college Mock Trial career with a TBC championship.

Drew and Ben discuss the upcoming 2023 AMTA Board Meeting and go through the proposed motions in the agenda. They discuss motions related to increased fees, invention of fact, diversity and inclusion, and some tabled motions that are unlikely to pass.

Ben and Drew discuss recent events in the AMTA community including the pending announcement of Rookie Rumble and then break down the 16 competitors in the 2023 Trial by Combat field.

Ben and Drew discuss recent events in the AMTA community including the pending announcement of Rookie Rumble, and then break down the 16 competitors in the 2023 Trial by Combat field.

Ben and Drew talk with Michael Blaine and Connor Nickson of UCLA Mock Trial about winning the 2023 National Championship Tournament. Michael and Connor discuss what it is like to compete for such a successful and storied program at UCLA, how their program approached this year's Nationals case, their path through the NCT field and how close we came to a UCLA v UCLA final round, and some of the key moments during the UCLA v Harvard final. Before the interview, Drew and Ben briefly discuss some notes from Nationals, the Trial by Combat play-in tournament, and the status of some of this year's sanctions.

Ben and Drew talk with Michael Blaine and Connor Nickson of UCLA Mock Trial about winning the 2023 National Championship Tournament. Michael and Connor discuss what it is like to compete for such a successful and storied program at UCLA, how their program approached this year's Nationals case, their path through the NCT field and how close we came to a UCLA v UCLA final round, and some of the key moments during the UCLA v Harvard final. Before the interview, Drew and Ben briefly discuss some notes from Nationals, the Trial by Combat play-in tournament, and the status of some of this year's sanctions.

Drew and Ben discuss the 2023 National Championship Tournament, including Drew's victory in the Mock Review draft, the 2023-24 case teaser, the NCT case balance statistics and reasons for the defense bias, and results from each of the two divisions at Nationals.

Drew and Ben are joined by Notre Dame coach Henry Leaman to discuss the 2023 AMTA National Championship Tournament. Ben, Drew, and Henry participate in the first-ever Mock Review draft, where each host/guest has five picks and a "dark horse" pick to select who they think will have the strongest performance at this year's NCT.

Ben and Drew are joined by Sarah Stebbins and Justin Bernstein of the UCLA Law Trial Team to discuss Robin Skye v. Aubrey Gold, the 2023 National Championship Tournament case. Sarah and Justin discuss how they settled on the idea for a legal malpractice case, why the UCLA Trial Team ended up writing the case, how the committee approached designing the case and choosing witnesses, and how the case authors considered questions around case balance and invention of fact.

Ben and Drew discuss the two ORCS results in week two and go through some final case balance statistics from Felder v. Koller Campbell Air.

Ben and Drew discuss results from the first six 2023 Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) tournaments.

Ben and Drew discuss the ORCS case changes, the post-Regionals case balance memorandum, and the state of the open bid list. Then, Ben and Drew go through results from the nine Regionals in week four.

Drew and Ben discuss the eleven Regionals in week three (not twelve like we say multiple times on the show) and talk through some of the implications of the current state of the open bid list.

Drew and Ben discuss the recent results from Drew's TYLA National Trial Competition Regional, where his Tulane Law team advanced to Nationals. Then Ben and Drew go through the three AMTA Regional tournaments held in week two.

Drew and Ben discuss results from the nine AMTA Regional tournaments in week one.

Ben and Drew are joined by Melissa Toussimehr of Cal Poly SLO Mock Trial to discuss California AB 1887, which restricts using state funds for travel to states with discriminatory laws. Melissa discusses how this has impacted her program and how it will make travel difficult if they advance to Nationals. Then Drew and Ben break down several January invitationals, including Great Chicago Fire, Ramblin' Wreck, Beach Party, and UCLASSIC.

Ben and Drew round out the fall invitational season by discussing the results at CUBAIT and Yale, and then discuss the December case changes and the CIC invention advisory opinions released with case changes.

Drew and Ben go through recent invitational tab summaries from around the country, including GAMTI results and several other tournaments, and pick out a few teams they've noticed this fall. Ben and Drew also discuss some early case balance numbers, and talk about the Regionals assignments that were recently released by AMTA.

Ben and Drew are joined by Ben Wallace of South Carolina Mock Trial to discuss results from the Fall 2022 invitational season. Ben, Drew, and Ben go through results from the South, Northeast, Midwest, and West, and discuss which teams are starting strong and standing out so far.