{"589145":{"#nid":"589145","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Mock Trial Advances to the National Championship Tournament for Second Straight Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis weekend, at the Decatur Opening Round Championship Series Tournament, which was hosted by Georgia Tech Mock Trial at the DeKalb County Courthouse, Georgia Tech Mock Trial A team finished with an UNDEFEATED record of 8-0. \u0026nbsp;GTMT A finished in First Place in the tournament and earned the first bid to the 33rd AMTA National Championship Tournament in Los Angeles, California, hosted by UCLA. \u0026nbsp;During the weekend, GTMT A defeated teams from the University of Alabama, Hendrix College, Millsaps College, and the University of South Carolina. \u0026nbsp;In addition to the team\u0026#39;s success, graduating Seniors Troy Kleber and Sutton Birch won Outstanding Witness Awards at the tournament. \u0026nbsp;With this undefeated record, GTMT finishes the AMTA \u0026quot;regular season\u0026quot; with an undefeated record of 16-0, as they head to the National Championship looking to improve upon their 3rd Place finish at last year\u0026#39;s tournament.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to GTMT A\u0026#39;s success, GTMT B competed this weekend back at ORCS for the first time since 2015. \u0026nbsp;While GTMT B did not ultimately end up placing in the top 6 to advance to the National Championship, they competed in extremely hard fought-rounds against top-tier teams from Millsaps College, the University of Central Florida, the University of Georgia and Washington \u0026amp; Lee University. \u0026nbsp;GTMT is extremely proud of the B team for their hard work and they proved that the future of GTMT is also bright!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENext Sunday night, GTMT will get an entirely new case problem to use at the National Championship Tournament. \u0026nbsp;Preparations will begin\u0026nbsp;immediately to use this new case problem at the National Championship in less than a month on the weekend of April 21-23, 2017, in LA!! \u0026nbsp;Thanks\u0026nbsp;to the continued support of Georgia Tech, the School of Public Policy, and Pre-Law of GTMT, and we hope to report back with even greater results in a month from California!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This weekend, at the Decatur Opening Round Championship Series Tournament, which was hosted by Georgia Tech Mock Trial at the DeKalb County Courthouse, Georgia Tech Mock Trial A team finished with an undefeated record of 8-0."}],"uid":"32864","created_gmt":"2017-03-23 04:07:47","changed_gmt":"2017-03-23 04:14:25","author":"Ryan McDonnell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582732":{"id":"582732","type":"image","title":"SPP Mock Trial Team sq","body":null,"created":"1476813057","gmt_created":"2016-10-18 17:50:57","changed":"1476813057","gmt_changed":"2016-10-18 17:50:57","alt":"SPP Mock Trial Team sq","file":{"fid":"222133","name":"Mock Trial sq.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mock%20Trial%20sq.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mock%20Trial%20sq.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":74850,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mock%20Trial%20sq.jpg?itok=N7sgzo2G"}}},"media_ids":["582732"],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}