This last weekend, the YoYoFactory West Coast tour culminated into the Southern California Yo-Yo Championship run by Tyler Severance. Check out the top three in both divisions, the winning freestyles, and a note from Tyler.

1a Division:

1 – Paolo Bueno
2 – Joshua Ray
3 – Michael Nakamura

1 – Patrick Borgerding
2 – Alex Hattori *
3 – Elliot Ogawa

“I would also like to post a huge apology to Alex and Linda Hattori. Alex Hattori did an incredible
job doing a 3A freestyle in the Open division, but unfortunately there was a mistake made while
calculating scores, and Alex’s 1A Prelim score was used instead of his much higher 3A score. He
didn’t recieve his earned 2nd place title and instead was calulated as 7th. Alex and Linda (his mother)
very kindly asked to see his raw scores and remained persistant during a busy time of the contest.
Showing us a mistake that would’ve other wise gone unnoticed. So I would again like to apologize
to Alex and his Mom, but also thank them for helping us fix our contest systems and try to improve
our accuracy for the future.”

-Tyler Severance

Having run CalStates for four years and assisted with a handful of smaller contests, I know exactly how easy it is to make a mistake like this. I applaud Tyler for what looked like an amazing event and also coming forward and making things right.

Full results after the jump.

1A FINALS
1 – Paolo Bueno 87.2
2 – Joshua Ray 69.7
3 – Michael Nakamura 74.5
4 – Matt Leone 73.48
5 – Clint Armstrong 72.02
6 – Tyler Goldenberg 68.46
7 – Dylan Benharris 64.4
8 – Wilson Vangundy 63.31
9 – James Reed 59.65
10 – Ernest Khan 57.0
11 – Mitchell Ruskin 47.2

OPEN FINAL
1 – Patrick Borgerding 44.52
2 – Alex Hattori 41.19
3 – Elliot Ogawa 40.67
4 – Michael Nakamura 27.74
5 – Tyler Hsieh 24.95
6 – Eric Ngu 20.04
7 – Ryan Ayers 18.14
8 – Julian Granaver 9.63
9 – Francis Jude 7.99
10 – Cameron Risland 5.19
11 – Jory Natali -5.56

1A Prelims
54.23 Matt Loeun
54.23 Clint Armstrong
53.29 Wilson VanGundy
52.97 Tyler Goldenberg
52.90 James Reed
51.25 Joshua Ray
47.28 Michael Nakamura
46.54 Paolo Bueno
46.37 Ernest Kahn
45.57 Mitchell Ruskin
41.59 Francis Jude
39.84 Dylan Benharris
39.47 Elliot Ogawa
38.05 Leo Veo
36.51 Eric Ngu
35.51 Jonathan Gatsoff
34.80 Alex Hattori
34.66 Ryan Ayers
31.63 Nicholas Arrendondo
31.10 Tyler Hsieh
30.04 Dennis Barahona
29.49 Ty Goldman
27.59 Isaac Fouch
26.06 Hans Baker
25.99 Jory Natali
23.49 Ross Levine
21.86 Cody Rislund
19.35 Alec Cecena
19.19 Raymond Chin
18.40 Shannon Jackson
18.27 Jake Rimmer
18.05 Julian Granaver
17.84 Patrick Borgerding
17.80 Micheal Bedner
14.78 Austin Moriss
13.80 Keane Usman
12.07 Ben Alves
11.63 Zamora Diego
10.75 Cameron Risland
9.50 Evan Schnabel
7.19 Blaine Shelton
6.66 Sam Cooper
6.13 Hank Pace
4.62 Aaron Catarroja
-1.12 Adam Navarro