The connection between optical and VHE γ-ray high states in blazar jets

MAGIC has been performing optically triggered Target of Opportunity observations of flaring blazars since the beginning of its scientific operations. The alerts of flaring blazars originate from Tuorla blazar monitoring program, which started the optical monitoring of the candidate TeV blazars in 2002 and has now collected up to six years of data on 30 blazars. These Target of Opportunity observations have resulted in the discovery of three new VHE γray emitting blazars (Mrk 180, 1ES 1011+496 and S5 0716+714) and in addition the discoveries of BL Lac and 3C 279 were made during a high optical state. In this talk we present a detailed analysis of the optical light curves which are then compared to MAGIC observations of the same sources. We aim to answer the question ”Is there a connection between optical and VHE gamma-ray high states in blazars or have we just been lucky?”