Coming from a small podunk town in the middle of nowhere I certainly appreciate the way it feels to be under rated, unexpected, and unwanted. Our trial team did really well against some top notch schools a few weeks ago (Which is extra cool because our school is newly accredited and for the most part not all that well respected because of that. TRANSLATION: Underdog). I always assumed that folks on these teams were like most of the crowd of gunners. To my pleasant surprise all of these folks are top notch, really nice, and pretty cool.
The following email was sent by one of our professors. I don’t know if they would want their names on my blog, so I removed them:
During the second week of November, H, G, N, & R represented the law school in the Buffalo/Niagara Mock Trial Invitational in Buffalo, New York. This was the largest trial competition in the nation with forty schools competing at one location. After the first two preliminary rounds only 10 of the 40 schools were still undefeated. We were one of the ten. Our defense team H & G defeated Chicago-Kent in an excellent trial with both teams scoring extremely high. The next morning our plaintiff team of N & R defeated St. Mary's in another high scoring affair. Unfortunately we lost a split decision in the third round and finished the preliminary round tied for eighth place with Temple, Cumberland, Michigan State, Illinois, Georgia State, Georgia and the two teams we had already defeated Chicago-Kent and St. Mary's. Through a complicated matrix of tiebreakers that I would happy to explain to anyone after exams, our team was left out of the advancing cut. (We fell just behind the University of Georgia - a team that was swept by the same Chicago team we defeated.)
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