The International History Bee and Bowl has now completed 20 of its 21 regional tournaments this year (only our Singapore Championships in May remain!) and with all eyes now on our Asian Championships, we're happy to announce that registrations for the Championships are now open! Qualified students and teams can be registered here, including for our new Geography Bee of Asia which will be held on Friday evening, June [...]
(Khao Lak, Thailand - 11 March) Greetings from beautiful Khao Lak, Thailand, the site of the 2015 Asian Championships of The International History Bee and Bowl! Your co-Executive Directors have been hard at work scouting out the fantastic location of our second annual Asian Championships this week, in between four tournaments this past weekend, and three this coming one. By the end of March, only our Singapore Championships, just [...]
It felt less like Fall and more like Winter with the -7 degree weather in Beijing, but the intense competition at Dulwich College Beijing kept students warm throughout the day. In the Junior Varsity division, host school teams Dulwich College C and Dulwich College D faced off. Dulwich C's 50 point advantage for their 2-1 standing in the prelims (their only loss being to the sole Varsity team in [...]
Phuket, Thailand is a short drive from our Asian Championships site at the JW Marriott in Khao Lak, but the championships being in their backyard didn't make the competition any less exciting for the students at Phuket International Academy Day School and British International School Phuket. Though it was a short after-school tournament, all the students were excited to compete for their first time. BIS' two teams faced [...]
Tokyo is always a treat for us at IHBB, as it comes with some of the most enthusiastic young history scholars. India International School of Japan sent a remarkable twelve teams from their two campuses to compete against the likes of St. Maur, Canadian International School, Global Indian, and host International School of the Sacred Heart. The Varsity and Junior Varsity divisions were small but well-spirited as they battled [...]
In the tropical, 30 degree country of Malaysia our third tournament of the international season took place. Five teams from two schools participated in our competition at Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar--three teams from the host school and two teams from 2014 Championships-attendees Sunway International School. Both our final matches featured school teams against each other, with Sunway A vs Sunway B in the high school finals and Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar [...]
Sunday, November 23rd featured our first IHBB Asia tournament of the season in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai American School in Puxi. Our competition featured four different schools from the Shanghai dares, including host SAS Puxi, sister school SAS Pudong, Shanghai SMIC Private School, and Shanghai High School International Division. After a competitive five rounds, SAS Puxi emerged as the top two seeds for the semifinals in the Varsity [...]