Anyone know people interested in qb @ high schools overseas?

[Standard-winged Nightjar]

NHBB just got its first overseas registration today - 3 teams from Lycee Robert de Luzarches in Amiens! If you happen to know anyone (teacher or student) in Europe, China, or Japan at an international school who might be interested in competing, please let me know so we can reach out to them. We're eager to help quizbowl finally take hold overseas, and would appreciate any help we can get in this endeavor!

[Transparent Pudding]

Any reason NHBB hasn't gone north of the border? That seems like a good place to expand into, what with a bit of a quizbowl circuit and relative proximity to America.

[Standard-winged Nightjar]

Precisely for that reason; that and the fact that Nolwenn is French so it's easier for her to work out of Europe, and we had a connection with Shanghai American School, hence the Asia division. We will debut Canada in 2013-2014 in all likelihood.

[Masked Canadian History Bandit]

Precisely for that reason; that and the fact that Nolwenn is French so it's easier for her to work out of Europe, and we had a connection with Shanghai American School, hence the Asia division. We will debut Canada in 2013-2014 in all likelihood.

I'm going to go on a limb here and say that Canada has a bigger circuit than any non-American (and probably bigger than some American) bowl sites. In this autumn alone, 50 different Ontario teams from 18 schools played quizbowl. In the spring, the ONQBA hopes to improve on this number. However, that's quizbowl. In Ontario alone, there are 300 schools, not teams, schools that will participate in established Reach for the Top leagues in the spring. It's not quizbowl, but it's still some sort of established (somewhat) academic trivia.

Even if Nolwenn, the international director, is French, most if not the rest of the entire NHBB staff is American. Canada speaks English and is reachable by car from the United States. I really can't see an easier country to work in, especially since both the collegiate and high school circuits are already integrated (i.e. send teams to American tournaments, use American question sets) with the American one.

EDIT: Nolwenn's position was announced in the hsqb post announcing the European Division, but the site wasn't updated. Just realized that, sorry.

[Standard-winged Nightjar]

I'd be open to running a few tournaments in Canada next year, though we'd have to figure out a way to work in a bunch of Canadian questions. With Europe and Asia, we already have a bunch of questions on European and Asian history, and we can use a good amount (~30%) of US history there too. In Canada, even if we went with a small amount (say, 25%) of Canadian history, that would still mean writing a couple hundred new tossups. It's unlikely we'd get the teams to really make that work. So Canada only really makes sense scaled up (i.e. about 10 tournaments), which there's no way we can next year, but almost certainly can in 2013-14.
The only alternative is to have almost an entirely world history set. If Canadian teams are cool with that, then I'd be cool with doing a tournament or two in Canada next year. I'll keep this in mind come May and June when next year's schedule starts to become a priority.