Teams Win 2nd Place, Hon. Mention at Duke

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11.14.10 UGA finished its fall invitationals season with 2nd place and an Honorable Mention this weekend at Duke University's Tobacco Road Invitational.

The tournament featured some of the finest competition in the Southeast, as well as teams from Pennsylvania and Washington, DC.

UGA Team 1134 finished in 2nd place at 7-1, defeating Washington & Lee, UNC - Chapel Hill, and the University of South Carolina. The team's only loss came in a 1-1 split with Georgetown, with UGA winning by 6 on one ballot and losing by 5 on the other.

UGA Team 1135 received an Honorable Mention with a record of 5-3, beating Georgia Tech and South Carolina, splitting +10, -3 with Georgetown, and losing to Duke A.

Brian Mink ('11) and Michelle Pope ('11) won Outstanding Attorney awards and Ethan Treacy ('12) won Outstanding Attorney awards on both sides of the case.

Competing on Team 1134, which finished in 2nd place, were: Ethan Treacy (E Board, '12), Lauren Lutton (Captain, '13), Veronica Evans ('13), Heidi Gholamhosseini ('13), Gray Macfie ('13), Serena Premjee ('12), and Claire Whitehead ('13).

Competing on Team 1135, which received an Honorable Mention, were: Brian Mink (President, '11), Michelle Pope (Captain, '11), Corey Anderson ('14), Alana Driscoll ('11), Alli Herzog ('14), Peyton Palmour ('14), Eli Staggers ('14), and Kyle Walker ('13).

 

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UGA Places 3rd in Nation Out of 633 Teams!

4.18.11 UGA Mock Trial finished 3rd in the nation out of 633 teams that started the year, tying for the best record at this year's National Championship Tournament in Des Moines, IA. The Bulldogs barely missed out on the championship round in a tie-breaker with the eventual national champion, UCLA.

The victory puts UGA in the top 99.5 percent of Mock Trial teams nationally. 6,000 undergraduates participate in collegiate Mock Trial, representing 633 teams from 300 universities. UGA placed above every Ivy League school, and finished behind only UCLA and NYU, who both tied UGA's record of 6-2 during the tournament.

UGA finished tied for 1st with UCLA in their 24-team division. UCLA's opponents had half a win more than UGA's (17.5 to 17), breaking the tie between the two teams and sending UCLA to the finals. NYU was the champion of the other division, followed by the University of Chicago.

UGA won rounds against Tufts, Georgetown, and UC Santa Cruz. Their only loss was to Harvard, by -2, -4. UGA ended the weekend with the largest single ballot win (+28), the largest single round win (+35), and the largest margin of victory over all four rounds (+74) of any team in the 48-team tournament.