Trial By Combat & Gauntlet

Congratulations to our All-Americans, Etinosa Ogbomo and Ryan Varma, on representing UGA Mock Trial at two of the nation’s most prestigious individual summer tournaments!

Trial By Combat selects 16 of the top attorneys in the country to compete in LA among the best. Unsurprisingly, they picked a dawg. Congratulations to Etinosa Ogbomo on earning an invitation and finishing an incredible 6th place among the nation’s best!

Ryan Varma returned to run the Gauntlet this year, competing among the nation’s best witnesses for a second time. Congratulations to Ryan for his 6th place finish! We could not be more proud, and we are still laughing at the jokes from his direct.

We are so proud of Etinosa and Ryan for their outstanding performance. Special shoutout to alumni Bryan Walker and Jack Goldstein who traveled with our competitors to help them prepare for the tournament. Thank you, Bryan and Jack, for your endless support, you two are the best.

Your 2026 AMTA National Champions!

For the first time the Mock Dawgs competed in the Final Round and were named the 2026 AMTA National Champions. Team Limbo, captained by Danielle and Etinosa, had a a PEREFCT RECORD. This team dropped Zero Ballots against the most talented teams in the nation. Check out the AMTA website to see the full Tab Summary.

Winning the National Championship has been the honor of a lifetime. We hope this accomplishment will show the AMTA community what student-run programs are capable of. It proves that it is not the number of coaches or the size of a budget that defines a national champion, but the strength of tradition. Years of success, heartbreak, late nights in the Journalism Building, long drives to tournaments, and calling the Dawgs after victories have brought us to this moment.

In the spirit of AMTA tradition, the Reynoldson Award is given annually at the start of Nationals to honor coaches whose dedication led their teams to an NCT Finals appearance. As you may know, UGA Mock Trial does not have any. Instead, we have chosen to dedicate our Reynoldson Award to our alumni whose presence continues to shape our program. In April 2027, our Reynoldson award will be dedicated to “The Program of the University of Georgia.” To our Alumni, you are just as much national champions as anyone on that Final Round team. Following our tradition of passing down trophies, we hope to share your legacy with future competitors and present the Reynoldson Award to those who embody what it means to be a student leader.

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia. As Always, GO DAWGS SIC EM.

2026 AMTA Regionals

The Mock Dawgs are starting the Spring Season strong with THREE BIDS to the Open Round Championship Series.

  • Congrats to Team Limbo captained by our President Danielle Zeitlin and Etinosa Ogbomo. This team who took home FOUR individual awards at Regionals. Shout out our All-Region Award winners Alex Dean, Ryan Varma, Etinosa Ogbomo, and Ruby Kelly!

  • Team No-Biggie captained by Harrison Biddle and Jack Goldstein took a bid to ORCS as well. In addition to their trophy they brought home some Individual Awards. Congrats to All-Regional Award winner Aiza Kidwai!

  • The third bid was won by Team Meep. This is the second year in a row that the Mock Dawgs have taken three bids! This is a seriously impressive accomplishment that very few schools achieve each year. Shout out the team captains Emma Bartlett and Deepthi Palvai & Freshman Jayden Nguyen who took home an All-Regional Witness Award.

We will see you in Memphis! Go Dawgs.

That's a Wrap!

Teams Lo-Kee, Kuffed, and Diva rounded out their fall season by competing at Duke’s Tobacco Road Invitational and FSU’s Capital City Invitational!

We’re so proud of team Kuffed for taking home an honorable mention at FSU! Our fall teams are now done for the season, getting a well deserved break before we start back up in January for our spring season. Stacked team has one more tournament before our season officially comes to an end!

First and Third at Mocky Top!

Teams Bright and Wreath wrapped up our fall season competing at Tennessee’s Mocky Top Invitational!

Huge congrats to Team Wreath for rounding out our season with a first place win! We’re also incredibly proud of Team Bright for taking home third. Special shoutout to Bryan Walker, JJ Weith, Ronan Leudet de la Vallee, Alex Dean, and Ethan Christmas for their Outstanding Attorney and Witness awards!

CCI XV

Teams Kuffed, Lo-Kee, and Diva had a great time competing at their first tournament of the season, our very own Classic City Invitational!

The tournament was a huge success thanks to all of our volunteers and our amazing tournament director JJ Weith. Congratulations to Lydia Ebbs and Ryan Varma for their awards!

7th at Nationals!

UGA Mock Trial had an outstanding spring season, placing 7th at Nationals and taking home an impressive amount of trophies!

Our program attended a total of seven tournaments in the Spring, receiving a bid or honorable mention at every AMTA tournament we attended. UGA's team Slay took fifth place at their regionals and UGA's team Coffin and team Breezee took home third and fourth place respectively. Both teams earned a bid to ORCS, the qualifier tournament for nationals, where UGA took first place! We're so proud of all our teams for an amazing season overall.

Dawgs in DC

Our Stacked Team finished out our fall season competing at GAMTI in Washington, DC with some of the top teams in the nation! They were able to hit some wonderful programs and took home a fifth place finish, completing our streak of taking home a trophy at every fall tournament!

We’re extremely proud of all of our members’ hard work and dedication to this program, and we can’t wait to pick things back up in the spring!

That's a Wrap!

Teams XOXO and WeeJee wrapped up our fall season competing at FSU’s Capital City Invitational!

Huge congrats to Team WeeJee for rounding out our season with yet again another win, taking place fifth place, as well Justin Xu, Bryan Walker, and Imaan Premjee for their Outstanding Attorney and Witness awards!

Our fall teams are now done for the season, getting a well deserved break before we start back up in January for our spring season!

Our Stacked Team has one more tournament in DC before our fall season officially comes to an end!

Mid-Season Updates

Teams Gopher, RoRo, and Sandhouse rounded out their fall season by competing at Duke’s Tobacco Road Invitational and Vanderbilt’s Grand Ole Tournament!

Team’s Sandhouse and RoRo continued our winning streak by taking home a third place finish at Vandy and an honorable mention at Duke! Also, huge congrats to Rosie Coffie and Sophie Tisinger for their Outstanding Attorney and Witness awards!

That’s a wrap on our fall season for half our teams- we can’t wait to see how Teams XOXO and WeeJee do at their second tournaments next weekend!

Peach Bowl Reigning Champs

Teams XOXO and WeeJee had a great time competing at their first tournament of the season, Emory University’s Peach Bowl Invitational!

Our Stacked Team took home first place at Peach Bowl last year, and we’re extremely happy to announce that Team WeeJee defended that title for a second year in a row, taking home first place again!

Special shoutout to Bryan Walker for his Outstanding Attorney award as well!

UGA Mock Trial Places Fifth at Nationals!

We are so excited to announce that our A-Team placed 3rd in our division at Nationals, 5th overall, AND took home the sportsmanship award!! And it doesn’t stop there! Our wonderful Ty Byers and Bryan Walker also took home All-American Witness and Attorney awards along the way!

Nationals is an extremely competitive tournament, with only 48 teams advancing out of 700+ teams in the community. We are beyond proud of our A-Team for not only advancing, but also placing third in their division. UGA Mock Trial has had an incredible year, and what a fantastic way to end it!

Until next year AMTA!

The Road to ORCS

Buckle up, we’re on our way to ORCS!! Huge congrats to our A and B teams for both their bids and to our amazing members who won outstanding performance awards! Bryan Walker won TWO attorney awards, Daniel MacDonald and Zenab Mchaourab won attorney awards and Peyton Owings and Lauren Fouts both won witness awards! Next stop: Memphis, TN

Fourth Place at OSU's Scarlet and Gray Invitational!

Team Byker Gang traveled to Dublin, Ohio this past weekend to compete at the Scarlet and Gray Invitational, taking home fourth place, two best witness awards, and the SPAMTA award! Huge congrats to Ty Byers for taking home both a Prosecution and Defense best witness award and to Team Byker Gang for their incredible performance at their first fall tournament!

All five of our fall teams have now competed at their first fall tournament, and we’re ready to take on the second!

UGA's Classic City Invitational

We’re thrilled to announce that UGA Mock Trial hosted our 13th annual Classic City Invitational this past weekend, with teams Step Sis and Bro Ho competing!

Huge shoutout to our Tournament Director, Daniel MacDonald, for planning and running such a successful and competitive tournament and to our President, Justin Xu, for running the tab room! We also want to thank Teams Slim Jim and Dream Team for giving up their free weekend to help out!

Congrats to Team Step Sis for their SPAMTA award, and for both teams’ great performances against some of the top teams in the nation! Team Step Sis and Bro Ho did a great job at their first fall tournament, and we’re excited to see where the season takes them!