You just missed the proverbial "gravy train". I was down in Riverside for the past year, and Pyroryuken asked me to teach him how to play MBAA. He has since then moved, and I moved back to NorCal about 2 weeks ago. I'm not sure if SoCal even plays the game anymore outside of Numakie and randoms. From what I've seen, Riverside is mostly the SF4/MvC crowd.