NAQT Southern California State Championship
The NAQT Southern California Championship (colloquially known as SoCal States) is the state regionals held in the San Diego, Orange, and Los Angeles counties of California.
Traditionally, the tournament has been hosted on an IS set, although the 2018 iteration of the tournament used an SCT-DII set. In 2021, the West Coast Championship used STASH, a nationals-level housewrite. DMA was used for the 2023 tournament.
Results
1. From 2000 to 2003 the tournament was called the "NAQT California State Championship" and the field included one school from Northern California.
2. May have been a three-way tie for second place.
3. Three-way tie for first after a round robin was settled by a three-team tiebreaker match, with final scores Los Alamitos 425, Capistrano Valley 125, Woodbridge 105
4. Tie.
5. Rosters for A and B teams were switched.
6. Combined (online) "West Coast Championship" with Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.
7. Arcadia A and B were solo teams of Amogh Kulkarni and Ryan Sun, respectively.
Anecdotes
- In 2004 (though it might have been TWAIN 2003 instead), a player from Santa Ana Valley High School held the dubious distinction of being the tournament's leading scorer while leading his team to a last-place finish.
- In 2006, Santa Monica B's victory over Arcadia A, which would have placed them in the top 4, was thrown out after a bizarre protest situation in which a player for Santa Monica B lit a cigarette around tossup 3 or 4 of the match. Naturally, Charles Meigs was moderating this match.