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Real cases. Brighter futures.

Help students experience the courtroom.

Join the Illinois Mock Trial Volunteer Network and make a direct impact on the next generation of civic leaders.

Students learn. Communities strengthen.

Illinois high school mock trial gives students real-world experience in critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and the American judicial system. Volunteers make that experience possible.

Different backgrounds. A shared belief in brighter futures.
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How volunteers help

Volunteers support invitationals, warmups, and championship events across Illinois.

✓Serve as presiding judges for trial rounds
✓Evaluate attorney and witness performances
✓Provide constructive, student-focused feedback
✓Help with tournament operations and check-in
✓Share professional experience and encouragement
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What happens next?

Joining the pool does not commit you to a specific tournament.

1We keep your profile in the statewide volunteer network.
2Hosts contact you when opportunities match your area and preferences.
3You decide which events work for your schedule.
4Your service history remains connected to your volunteer profile.
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Final Results & Awards

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This tournament roster is independent from State/Scout working groups. Students remain on the full program roster even when not selected here.

Side Lineups

Assign each role from the ten-student tournament roster.

McHenry used ISBA as the base rules but relaxed roster size for this early-season tournament. One student still could not serve as both an attorney and a witness in the same side lineup.

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Approve first-coach and additional adult coach requests. Student requests never appear in this IMTCA queue.

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Adult volunteer profiles, preferences, and service history.

Public volunteer verification: new public registrations appear here after the volunteer confirms their email. Verified-signup email alerts go to the configured Volunteer Coordinator. Coach-entered contacts are not automatically email-verified.
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High-level event status, host information, director staffing, and registration counts. IMTCA status does not expose private ballots, lineups, or school rosters.

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Platform responsibilities

Verify first coach / school claimsIMTCA
Maintain school program directoryIMTCA
Support statewide volunteer networkIMTCA
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Manage student rosters and student linksSchool only

Privacy boundary

Association roles are separate from school roles. Board/Admin membership does not create a school membership and does not grant blanket access to private school information.

Student accounts and roster records are intentionally absent from the IMTCA Administration data APIs.
Check-in access only. Registration management, rosters, lineups, pairings, ballots, scores, settings, and statewide volunteer editing are not available here.
Check-In

Team check-in

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Volunteer check-in

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Team identity

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PUBLIC TEAM PAGE

Bartlett High School Mock Trial

Building advocates, witnesses, and teammates.

What teams can customize

LogoOptional
Primary & secondary colorsYes
Display name & descriptionYes
Core layout / accessibilityIllinois Mock Trial standard
New coach path
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Core topics
Official resources
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Case + rules
Training library
Growing
Videos, slides & links

New Coach Learning Path

1. How Illinois Mock Trial worksStart here
2. Understanding the case packetGuide
3. Building your first rosterGuide
4. Attorney & witness rolesTraining
5. Rules of Evidence & objectionsTraining
6. How scoring worksGuide
7. Preparing for your first tournamentChecklist
8. Tournament-day expectationsChecklist

Official & Case Resources

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ISBA Mock Trial materials

Official state-tournament source for the current problem and materials.

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Handbook of Rules & Procedures

Keep the current handbook easy to locate from the resource library.

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Rules of Evidence

National High School Mock Trial Rules of Evidence used in Illinois.

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Training recordings

Future IMTCA live sessions can be archived here with slides and handouts.

COACH WORKSPACE

Help grow the statewide volunteer network.

Coaches can add volunteers on behalf of alumni, parents, attorneys, and community supporters who prefer not to use the public signup page. Statewide volunteer recruiting for a specific tournament remains a tournament-director function.

Add a program-connected volunteer

This creates or reuses the person's statewide volunteer profile and connects it to your school. It does not register them for a specific tournament.

Volunteers connected to this program

These are people your school has contributed or connected to the statewide pool.

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What coaches can do here

Add alumni, parents, attorneys, and community supportersYes
See volunteers connected to your programYes
Send someone to the public /volunteer signup pageYes
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For tournament hosts

When you are serving as a tournament director, use Director Dashboard → Judges & Volunteers → Find Volunteers to search the statewide pool, invite volunteers, assign roles, send guest access, and track check-in.

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Volunteer

Your tournament assignments are below. This private link is specific to you and works for all of your assigned rounds.

My schedule

Round, room, teams, sides, and your assignment responsibility.

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Keep this link private. It provides access only to your own tournament assignment schedule and expires after the event.
Score each listed performance. Your totals are calculated automatically.

Score as the trial happens

Complete the current section before moving forward. You can return to completed sections at any time.

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Round 1 · Setup

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Registration Reconciliation

One place to resolve registration, payment, division, roster, attendance, lineup, and team-provided volunteer issues before tournament day.

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Lineup change control

Lock all lineups before competition. If a student becomes unavailable later, reopen only the affected side for that team.

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Event format & scoring

Describe what kind of event this is separately from how judge scores are used.

Tournament = formal competitive event; Warmup = multi-team practice event; Scrimmage = practice matchup or small practice event.
Evaluation only keeps judge scores and feedback but does not use them for tournament standings.

Team entry policy

Control how many teams each school may enter and how additional teams are handled.

Host team reservation

Protect one host-school competition slot so the host can register before public registration opens.

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Registration availability

Publish the tournament now while controlling exactly when coaches may register.

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Tournament lifecycle

Archive completed or unwanted events without losing history. Permanent deletion is limited to empty/test tournaments.

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Registration, logistics & requirements

Information participating schools need before tournament day.

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Tournament host & staff access

The host organization and the people operating the tournament are separate. Tournament staff access does not grant school-roster or student-account access.

Public host identity

Invite tournament staff

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Limited check-in access

Give a person check-in access without making them a Tournament Director or exposing the full tournament workspace.

Check-In Staff: teams + volunteers. Student Check-In Helper: teams only. The person must already have a MockDocket account.
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Judge / evaluator team identity

Choose whether judges and evaluators see actual school/team names or tournament-specific anonymous codes. Directors always retain the actual identity.

Actual names
This setting applies to the /judge schedule and electronic ballot. The same anonymous code follows a team for the entire tournament.

Case witness setup

Enter the three case witnesses available to each side once. Coaches will select from dropdowns instead of typing witness names into every lineup.

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Plaintiff / Prosecution witnesses

Defense witnesses

Registered teams, check-in & lineup readiness

Check teams in when they arrive. Hosts may review submitted lineups only; draft lineups remain private to the school.

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Emergency / Bye-Buster teams

Create a tournament-owned team when a no-show or uneven field would otherwise cause a bye. Its roster may combine mockers from different schools or unused B-team students.

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Rooms

Create the courtrooms or competition spaces used for pairings.

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Pairings

Assign two registered teams, sides, and a room for each round.

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Teams will see a round only after you release it.

Manual pairing

You can still create or adjust pairings manually at any time.

Automatic Pairing Generator

Generate a private proposal, review it, then apply the round. Random draw and power matching use the same rematch, school, side, room, and advancing-field rules.

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Round 1 uses a random draw. Power matching becomes available after Round 1.
When teams have Division / Pool labels, the generator will not cross-pair them.
Pairing rules
Choose a round and pairing method, then generate a proposal.
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Tournament readiness

Quick-scan view of what each matchup still needs before the round can start.

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Coach ballot release

Control when coaches can see submitted ballots and how much of each ballot is released.

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Automatic release occurs after the director successfully closes a round.
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Electronic ballot tracker

Expected scoring ballots from active evaluator assignments.

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Tab Room · Standings

Choose whether this tournament ranks primarily by total points or ballot record. Primary ties remain ties.

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Final Results Review & Release

Certify a stable end-of-tournament snapshot after every scoring ballot is submitted. Finalization does not publish anything automatically.

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Coach release
Choose which parts of the certified snapshot coaches may see.
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Standings settings & coach release

The director always sees live submitted results. Coaches see only the released rounds.

Director only
Use Advanced Tie-Break Settings below to change the full order.
Directors continue to see real team names.
Advanced Tie-Break Settings

These rules are applied in order. Random draw is always the final standings fallback; co-winners are always the final outstanding-award fallback.

Team standings order

Strength of schedule: average opponent total points; if equal, average opponent ballot value. Head-to-head: used only for a remaining two-team tie when the teams actually faced each other.

Outstanding Attorney / Witness order

Ranking: Total Points → Ballot Record → Strength of Schedule → Point Differential → Head-to-Head → Random Draw.
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Round control

A round can close only after every required scoring ballot is submitted.

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Outstanding awards

Configure whether selections are resolved by matchup or across the tournament. Ties can remain shared or be flagged for director review.

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Volunteer check-in desk

Search by name, check volunteers in, or show immediate access without relying on email.

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This tournament

Manage the volunteers already connected to this event. Use search and filters instead of scrolling through the entire roster.

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Walk-in volunteers can be added without email.

Evaluator assignments by round

Use this board to make sure every active pairing has the evaluators or judge coverage you need.

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Recruit more volunteers

Search the statewide Illinois Mock Trial volunteer network when you still need people.

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Statewide pool: Search only when you need additional judges, evaluators, or event-support volunteers. Volunteer information is visible only to authorized tournament staff.
Search the statewide volunteer pool to find potential judges, evaluators, and event-support volunteers.

Submitted lineup review

Select a submitted lineup from the registered-team table above. Only submitted lineups are visible to tournament staff.

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My Hosted & Managed Tournaments

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Review previous events, ballots, awards, and results.
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Current Season

Upcoming schedule

Dates, departure times, locations, and team assignments. Budget and internal notes remain private.

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