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.
On part two of our 2020 Trial by Combat preview, Drew and Ben are joined by Abbie Heller, the Assistant Director of Trial Advocacy...
Editor's note: this episode was recorded before the second weekend of ORCS, but Ben didn't finish editing it until now because he was preparing...
Drew and Ben discuss hosting and postponing the 2020 National Championship Tournament with Devon Holstad, a coach and former competitor at Loyola Chicago. Devon...