SCCF State Championship Qualifiers

Seeded into the 2011 State Championship are 2010 champions Philip Wang and Joel Banawa, the winner of the 2010 Southern California Open (Enrico Sevillano), one player selected on the basis of rating, and four from the 2011 Candidates Tournament. Below is a list of players who will be invited to the Candidates Tournament, and of upcoming qualifying tournaments.

Each of the events below qualifies two players (highest scoring southern California residents not previously qualified) except that for the following: (1) In the event of a tie, all tied players will qualify; (2) A score of 60 percent is required to qualify; and (3) The SCCF Amateur, SCCF High School, SCCF Senior, and any one-day event will each have one qualifying spot. Round robin events other than the State Championship are not qualifiers. Evens must have TLAs and require, or offer discounts for, SCCF membership. Send questions, comments or updates here.

Events for the 2011-2012 Cycle 2011 Events
July 3-5	Pacific Southwest Open	Andranik Matikozyan John Daniel Bryant
July 15-17	Pacific Coast Open	Melikset Khachiyan Enrico Sevillano
Aug. 6-7	San Diego County Championships	Bruce Baker Peter Graves Shirin Navabi
Aug. 27	SLO County Championship	Michael D'Acri Eduardo Ortiz
Sept 3-5	Southern California Open	Varuzhan Akobian Ali Morshedi Shijie Chen Alan Tsoi
Oct. 7-9	Los Angeles Open	Tatev Abrahamyan Konstantin Kavutskiy Varun Krishnan
Nov. 24-27	American Open	Zhanibek Amanov Larry Remlinger Harry Akopyan
2012 Events
Jan. 14-16	Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial	Pablo Pena Alex Kretchetov
Feb. 18-20	Recession Buster Open	Michael Brown Paul Agron Alexander King
Mar. 24-25	SuperStates Scholastic Ch. K-12


Events for the 2010-2011 Cycle 2010 Events
Date	Event	Qualifiers
June 19-20	LACC Club Championship	Fernando Sevilla David Portwood
July 3-5	50th Annual Pacific Southwest Open	Melikset Khachiyan Joshua Gutman Christian Tanaka
July 16-18	Pacific Coast Open	Enrico Sevillano Andranik Matikozyan
August 14-22	SCCF State Championship	Jack Peters Tim Taylor Cyrus Lakdawala Michael Casella Ankit Gupta Konstantin Kavutskiy
August 22	Westwood Summer Open	Takashi Kurosaki Show Kitagami
August 28	SLO County Championship	Daniel Giordani Craig Faber
September 4-6	Southern Cal Open	Jouaquin Banawa Alexandre Kretchetov Gregg Small Vadim Kudryavtsev Varun Krishnan Michael W. Brown
October 15-17	Los Angeles Open (Hillery Memorial)	Roman Yankovsky Zhanibek Amanov Eugene Yanayt Eric Zhang Yusheng Xia Cody Oldham Albert Lu
November 14	Westwood Fall Open	Craig Clawitter John Daniel Bryant
November 25-28	American Open	Tatev Abrahamyan Lernik Manukian Alessandro Steinfl
2011 Events
February 26-27	"Deus Ex Machina"	Robert Akopian Willis Kim Tony Kukavica
March 5-6	Kern County Open Championship III	Indra Lahiri David Wells
March 12-13	Western Class Championship	Jeff Phillips
March 19-20	SCCF High School Championship	Vncent Huang
April 9-10	SCCF Senior/Junior Open	Bruce Baker Alejandrino Baluran
April 10	Westwood Spring Open	Simone Liao
April 30	SLO Spring Open	Taylor Mccreary
May 28-30	Memorial Day Classic	Julian Landaw Roger Norman
July 24-25	San Diego County Open	Peter Hodges