Results and Thanks - NAQT SoCal State Championship

[r.g.anderson]

Hello all,

16 teams competed in the 2008 NAQT Southern California State Championship at UCI. The top three finishers were:

1. Santa Monica
2. Rancho Bernardo
3. Edison

Full results can be found at the "results" link at the tournament announcement page, which is,
http://www.clubs.uci.edu/qbc/NAQTsocalc ... nship.html

I would like to thank (in no particular order), Albert Sylvia, Andrea Wong, Marcus Luna, Jason Luna, Jon Wong, Phyllis Ukatu, Tye Mai, Daniel from Edison, Dwight Wynne, Carl Boone, Charles Lam, Liz Lopez, and Brendan Shapiro, for the work they did in making the tournament a success.

Thanks to all the teams that came. We hope to see you all at UCI's fall tournament (CBCT).

Ray Anderson
Tournament Director

[ihavenoidea]

Thanks to UCI for hosting a good tournament

[ntan]

thanks for a pretty smoothly run tournament

[AndyShootsAndyScores]

Is it just me, or were there a ton of upsets? I can only see what the stats show, but they tell a very interesting story, to say the least.

[ntan]

yea, there were many upsets. Santa Monica lost again to Rancho B (the only team that has beat them from this region). Other surprises included Torrey Pines beating Rancho A, Edison beating Torrey, and Torrey losing to Tustin in the round robin. My team, Arcadia, had a pretty poor tournament, and lost a couple games we typically dont lose. This I partly attribute to the considerably weaker teams we fielded. My out negging every team singlehandedly didn't help either

despite the loss, Santa Monica appears to be well ahead of the rest of us; however, I dont think this team is quite as strong as the Santa Monica teams of the past 2 years. Then again, the same thing could've been said about their team last year ( and the finished something like T-8th at hsnct).