The Mock Review with Ben and Drew

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Emergency Podcast: AMTA Postpones the 2020 National Championship Tournament Mar 12, 2020

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Ben and Drew discuss AMTA's decision to postpone the remaining 2020 ORCS and the 2020 National Championship Tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Note: Ben recorded this episode remotely, so his audio quality is lower than normal.

Episode 24: Regionals Analysis, Weeks Three and Four Mar 11, 2020

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Note: this episode was recorded last week, before the first weekend of ORCS results were released. On this episode, Ben and Drew analyze all of the remaining Regionals results, including the two west coast Regionals from week two, and all of the Regionals for weeks three and four.

Episode 23: Regionals Analysis, Weeks One and Two Feb 17, 2020

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Ben and Drew break down the results of the first two weeks of Regionals, except for the west coast Regionals on week two. (Those results weren't out yet at the time we recorded this episode.)

Episode 22: Holiday Mailbag! Dec 24, 2019

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Just in time for that holiday car ride, Ben and Drew answer listener questions submitted via email, Facebook, Twitter, and the new Impeachments forum. Topics include top teams and competitors on the circuit this year, how to transition from high school to college mock trial, how to build a program from the ground up, and several other issues. Then Ben and Drew break down the case changes and discuss the CRC Guidance Memo on invention of fact that was recently released by AMTA.

Episode 21: State of Midlands v. Jordan Ryder (with Neal Schuett) Nov 25, 2019

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"I'm so sorry this happned [that we were gone for so long]" "It's all my fault [that we didn't upload sooner]" We promise we're not gone, we were just (missing). Thanks for following in Jordan Ryder's footsteps and never calling the police. Criminal Case Committee Neal Schuett joins Ben and Drew to talk State v. Ryder, his thoughts on winning a national championship both as a competitor at Iowa and a coach at Miami, and how hard it is to plan for crazy theories when writing a case where the defendant has no affidavit.

Episode 20: The 2019 National Final Round (with Iain Lampert) Sep 06, 2019

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On the latest episode, Ben and Drew break down the 2019 National Final Round between Rhodes and Yale, where Yale was eventually stripped of their national title. Iain Lampert, two-time national champion at UCLA and 2019 final round judge joins the podcast to go through his analysis of what he observed during the round, how he scored each team, and how he thinks this impacts the AMTA community moving forward. Finally, Ben and Drew walk through each possible invention and give their perspective on what happened and whether the sanctions were fair and correct.

Episode 19: Two National Champions* Aug 21, 2019

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While this year was a bit tougher to pull off a "Two National Champions" episode, Ben and Drew do their best. On the latest Mock Review episode, the hosts discuss Trial by Combat with the 2019 champion, Stephen Johnson. Ben and Drew are also joined by "member of the team who scored the most ballot points in the 2019 National Final", Adam Chase of Yale, to discuss his AMTA witness career, the aftermath of that controversial 2019 final, and his favorite rejected jokes that were left on the cutting room floor.

Episode 18: 2019 Board Meeting Rundown Aug 15, 2019

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Ben and Drew discuss everything that happened at the 2019 American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) Board of Directors meeting in Cincinatti, including a new pairing system for ORCS, several different proposals for changing our tournament structure, the new time limits for opening and closing statements, and the proposed rule to limit each program to one team at the National Championship Tournament.

Episode 17: 2019 Trial by Combat Preview Jun 20, 2019

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On the latest episode, Ben and Drew chat again with Justin Bernstein about the 2019 Trial by Combat tournament hosted by Drexel Law and UCLA Law, and get an exclusive preview of the case before its release on Friday. Additionally, 2019 Trial by Combat competitor Jonathan Kuang (of UCLA Mock Trial) joins the podcast to talk about west coast mock, his disastrous first attempt at playing a witness, and why he's excited to compete at TBC.

Episode 16: Nationals Analysis, Part One (and ORCS Analysis, Week Two) Apr 14, 2019

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On the newest episode, Drew and Ben dive into the results from the 35th AMTA National Championship, excluding the final round which will be the focus of another episode soon. Your hosts also look back at the season as a whole and briefly discuss the newly finalized 2019 Trial by Combat field. This episode also contains the ORCS Week Two analysis that was recorded before Nationals but was not released before Nationals because Ben was prepping his team to compete.

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