For more than a decade, this site has been built by a handful of volunteers in their free time, without funding and without pay. We kept at it for one reason.
Moot courts are an enormous amount of work. Organising a competition, judging it, coaching a team, spending months on a memorial and then standing up to argue it is real labour, and it changes people. For many students it is the moment they become lawyers. Nothing else in legal education does what a moot does: it shapes how a person thinks, works and argues for the rest of their career, and those who go through it are among the best of their generation.
Work like that should not simply disappear. Every competition, every team and every person who took part deserves to stay in the record, not to be erased by the next season, a lost spreadsheet or a dead website. That is what Nica.team was created for: to pay tribute to everyone who takes part, organises, judges or supports moot courts, by keeping the memory of these events and of the people behind them.
In the last few years we did not have enough hands, and the site fell behind. That is changing. We are rebuilding it, working through everything you have sent us, and the ranking will be recalculated.
Before we decide what the new Nica.team should be, we would like to think it through together with you. Imagine the site works exactly the way you want it to. What would it do for you? What would make you come back to it? Any idea is welcome, from a small fix to something that does not exist yet. A couple of sentences is enough.
Thank you for being part of this history.
the Nica.team volunteers