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

Date	Host	Teams	First	Second	Third	Fourth
20001	Caltech	14?	Edison A	Pasadena Polytechnic A2	Palos Verdes Peninsula2	Capistrano Valley A2
20011	Pasadena Polytechnic	10	Los Alamitos	Capistrano Valley	Archbishop Riordan	Santa Monica A
20021	UCI	9	Los Alamitos3	Capistrano Valley3	Woodbridge3	?
20031	UCI	14	Bentley	San Dieguito	Capistrano Valley4	Dana Hills4
2004	UCLA	?	Santa Monica A	?	?	?
2005	UCLA	?	Santa Monica A	?	?	?
2006	UCLA	20	Santa Monica A	San Dieguito A	Edison	Arcadia A
2007	Caltech	?	?	?	?	?
2008	UCI	16	Santa Monica A	Rancho Bernardo A	Edison	Santa Monica B
2009	Caltech	19	Rancho Bernardo A	Santa Monica A	Arcadia A	Rancho Bernardo B
2010	UCLA	24	Torrey Pines A	Rancho Bernardo A	La Jolla B	La Jolla A
2011	UCLA	14	Torrey Pines	Rancho Bernardo	University	Arcadia A4
2012	La Jolla	21	Canyon Crest A4	Arcadia A4	Santa Monica A	Arcadia B4
2013	Irvine	30	Arcadia A	Westview A	Arcadia B	Santa Monica A
2014	Irvine	18	Torrey Pines A	Arcadia A	North Hollywood A	Capistrano Valley A
2015	Westview	26	North Hollywood	La Jolla4	Canyon Crest A4	Torrey Pines A4
2016	Irvine	14	La Jolla A	Westview	Rancho Bernardo A	Torrey Pines
2017	Westview	30	Canyon Crest A	Arcadia A	Torrey Pines	Rancho Bernardo A
2018	Arcadia	10	Canyon Crest A	Canyon Crest B	Irvine A4	North Hollywood A4 Santa Monica A4
2019	UCSD	18	Westview A	Santa Monica B5	Del Norte A4	Scripps Ranch A4 Arcadia A4
2020	UCSD	18	Arcadia B5	Del Norte A	Westview A	Santa Monica A
20216	Online	38	Arcadia A	Westview A	Stanford Online6 4	Irvington A6 4
2022	UCSD	10	Arcadia A7	Arcadia B7	Del Norte A	Arcadia C
2023	UCSD	12	Del Norte	Canyon Crest A	Westview A	Rancho Bernardo A4 Olympian4

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.