This post begins a series showcasing the unstacked teams for this year. We’re starting off with Team Blue, also known as the $avage Six 2.0, authored by Zoe Swenson ‘23.
In a golden era of Mock Trial--before zoom, before materially invented fact, before AMTA's new time limits--there was one unstoppable CWRU pre-stack team. The Savage Six, forged in the fires of the low retention rate of the 2017-18 season, blazed a trail of victory the likes of which has never been seen (actually they only went like 10-6 but whatever). But when CWRU Mock Trial needed them most, they vanished. At least, until Bradley Ouambo and Imokhai Okolo, prestigious coaches and known enablers of Mock Trial nonsense, decided to cause chaos and create a second Savage Six. For better or worse, these intrepid six are tasked with upholding the legacy and (perhaps more importantly) not crashing and burning under the weight of two charges, three theories, ten witnesses, and six statements.
Carrying the torch is an all-new, all different team of CWRU's best and brightest. The team is made up of Vishu Chandrasekhar ‘23, expert extraordinaire and blossoming defense attorney, Zoe Swenson ‘23, former prosecution opener turned loose from the world of guaranteed crosses, exact memorization, and non-argumentative statements, Ben Chanenson ‘23, the most chaotic opening attorney CWRU Mock Trial has ever seen, Enya Eettickal ‘23, all-star defendant finally wielding her tremendous skills on both sides of cross examination, Emerson McGinnis ‘21, a true jack of all trades of a witness (seriously--expert, hostile, emotional, character--this girl can do it all), and Max Liu ‘21, former CWRU Mock president but forever our fearless leader.
What havoc will the new Savage Six unleash not just on the program, but the world? We don't know for sure, but we wouldn't like to be the teams at Wake Forest who have to find out.