Drew and Ben are joined by 2021 Trial by Combat Champion Audrey Shepard of UCLA Mock Trial. Audrey goes through her high school Gladiator championship, her time competing in AMTA at Moorpark Community College, what it was like to transfer to UCLA, and her entire experience preparing for, competing at, and winning Trial by Combat - including her extreme guilt at making Bennett Demsky close his cabinets during the final round. Drew and Audrey also discuss the round this past season that Drew judged where Audrey's rooster crowed while she was testifying as Austin Lewis. ...
For our first Nationals preview episode, Amanda Mundell returns to the show. Amanda is a member of the National Championship Tournament Civil Case Committee and she discusses how the case committee selected this topic, why they think the topic is sufficiently compelling and interesting to be used at Nationals, and how the committee considered time constraints and case balance when writing Westenmeier v Walton. Happy April Fool's Day! ...
Drew and Ben (belatedly) go through the results from the last ten Regionals in week four. ...
