Houston Region specific Information

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HARO News

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9/29/25 Read carefully the updated Team Qualifications for HARO. For 2025-26, we will try a new model to alleviate the extra burden on teams of the hosting site. Subject to review, if we are short of judges at State. /…/

10/28/25 The new portal does not track individual team member schools. If your team contains members from a school other than the membership, please email your Regional Director the team detailed roster by Nov 15th, with each member school, to obtain confirmation of qualification.

11/02/25 Start recruiting your team judge! Judge registration will open early November. The majority of teams provide a team parent as the judge. Team parents and teachers can also use this flyer to recruit a judge amongst their peers and friends.

11/04/25 OMER Talks are starting again, the second Wednesday of each month at 6 pm CT. These are open forum virtual sessions led by experts who explore topics the Odyssey way! Coaches are strongly encouraged to participate. All coaches registered in the portal will soon receive an email from OdysseyHQ with a link to register. View details and previous webinars here.

11/07/25 Problems 3 and 5 are filling up in Houston. Register your team by end of day on Nov 10. If your membership activation is still in progress, you can do register by email to the Regional Director.

11/10/25 Judge Registration is now open until Dec 15th, 2025. All team judges for competitive teams must register themselves by the deadline. Coaches cannot register on their behalf. Judges should start here.

11/12/25 Reminder: Co-coaches with a portal account can access all the resources in the Member-Area. Use first button on the left quick-links.

11/14/25 Several teams asked about Volunteer Registration. This will open late January as soon as we have a competition plan with volunteer shifts.

11/16/25 Any late registering team is considered late starting. At the moment, problems 1, 3 & 5 are close to full. We may not open additional competition venues for late teams and you are very welcome where space is available.

11/17/25 Announcement: Problem 1 is full, any additional teams will be on waiting list. Problems 2 & 4 are close to full. We are opening a new venue for problems 3 & 5. In addition, some teams with low participation are automatically on the waiting list, you have received a targeted notification.

11/22/25 Announcement: Most problems are full, any teams registering now will be on waiting list. If we have enough judges, we will open additional venues.

11/25/25 Reminder: All competitive teams judges must register by Dec 15th.

11/30/25 We hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving. We have started sending invitations to the HARO competition. If the Head Coach has not received your invitation by email, either your team registration is incomplete, or, you have been advised that you are on waiting list. We are working hard to include all teams, provided we have enough judges to open additional venues.

12/1/25 If you have missed the first OMER Talk in November, we strongly recommend that you watch the video or at least review the slide deck here. It contains insights and inspirations from our International Problem Captains, as well as tips for the specific problems this year. Next monthly session on 12/03. Topic: Primary Problem.

12/5/25 Most teams have now updated their roster and are on their way to register for the competition. We still have a few waiting list teams and are working through to accommodate everyone we can. Please check your team qualification status frequently at the new direct link posted below. This file is updated frequently by volunteers. Please be patient if it takes a day or two to show your recent update.

12/9/25 Announcement about competition registration: HQ have advised us that they rolled back many teams from Texas who submitted the competition registration without going through the steps to include all their team members and coaches first.
It is very possibly because the Submit Registration button shows at the very top and can be confusing. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
If you have not registered yet, please do not miss the steps to click Register for each team members individual then coach(es).
If your team status on the document linked below shows as Rolled Back, you have the chance to go back through the process and click Register for each of your team members and coach first, before you re-submit for competition.
If your team status shows as Submitted Incomplete, it will be included in next batch to be rolled back. Check again until it shows as Rolled back.
After you register, you may see a purple “Off Campus” tag next to each name. You can ignore it because we do not offer On Campus accommodations in Texas. This is intended for World Finals only.