I just researched, and I saw that for VIQRC Southern California championship, you (whatever you do) cannot advance to world championships, while Northern California chamionship has a worlds qualifer, without signature events, is there a way to qualify for Vex iq worlds if you advance to event championships?
IQ states is the main way to qualify to worlds.
It either goes like this:
1. Go to regionals
2. Qualify to States
3. Go to States
4. Qualify to worlds
5. Go to worlds
There are many other ways, such as online challenges (e.g. , signature events, having a high-enough skills at states (if qualifications overflow into skills), and a custom algorithm that VEX qualifies interesting teams to (not sure how this one works, but I had 2 sister teams qualify through this last year), and probably some other methods that I am missing.
I dunno but also as a socal competitor, maybe i think you should ask a official.
or check if what you read is really official
I a m just curious for SoCal, because I do not have any available official, and as an 8th grader, I am a little on my own.
You may accidentally be looking at the “California Region 1,2, etc.” which is only for VEX V5, but SoCal is clearly listed in the table on the qualifying criteria article. The SoCal ERC has 4 spots available for Worlds, so you can get excellence, teamwork champion, or the design award.
Can somebody please give me the link to that comp on robot events? I just cannot find the SoCal championships…
Here’s the link to the MS ERC.
Interestingly, you cannot qualify for worlds in this competition, this is why I am currently so confused 
Ah I get what you mean now. Even though it doesn’t show it the awards section, you will qualify for worlds by getting the awards I listed earlier. For some reason, they did that with our local tournaments (in NorCal), but other teams (sadly not us yet) have gotten invitations to the ERC without it explicitly stating what awards can qualify. I’m assuming the same is applicable at a larger scale for qualifying to worlds.