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During JEE prep, Piyush Kumar discovered MIT integration bees on YouTube. Mathematics as sport. The seed lay dormant through IIT Guwahati until it demanded existence - India needed its own mathematical arena.

Across premier institutions, students faced 45 minutes of mathematical combat. 15 questions. Negative marking. IIT Guwahati led with 423 warriors. First and second-years dominated—reflexes sharp from JEE conditioning. The guillotine fell precisely.

Randomized portals. Timed knockout rounds. Live leaderboards transforming venues into pressure cookers. Solve correctly, advance—falter, spectate. Electrical Engineering dominated with 135 qualifiers. Twenty campuses crowned champions. All roads led to Mumbai.

IIT Bombay. Three days. Top 16 faced six olympiad problems across three hours testing proof-writing and conceptual depth. Progressive elimination: quarterfinals, semifinals, finals. CSE students comprised 60%+ of finalists. Mathematics transformed into exhibition sport.

Twenty premier institutions engaged. Years 1-2 dominated at 65%—mathematical muscle requires maintenance. CSE's advantage wasn't coincidental but structural: algorithmic thinking and integration share cognitive infrastructure. Geographic hunger transcends regional boundaries when platforms provide access.