Integration Bee 2022
Inspired by the annual integration challenge conducted at MIT, the members of PaAC organized the event with the same name ‘Integration Bee’ but integrated with its own twists and quirks! Held during September 2022, spanning three days — from 3rd to 5th, the first-of-its-kind event at IITR witnessed enthusiastic participation of over 100+ students from various branches, with the event culminating with the top 3 teams as the winners of the nerdy tournament.
Format of the tournament
The tournament was held in a team-format as opposed to the conventional individual format, which allowed PaAC to pack some more fun into it! Along with the team-based format, many different types of rounds were incorporated into the tournament — Speed solving, Relay, Nightmare Integral Solving, and Hoard the Integrals apart from the conventional rounds.
In the Speed Solving round, participants had to solve a tricky integral in short time, and the one to solve first correctly won the points. The Relay round, as the name suggests, involved solving a series of integrals, with the chalk being passed on to the next team member as soon as the first member solved the given integral with bonus points rewarded for solving the series fastest. The Nightmare Integral Solving round truly lived up to its name, with one team member solving a nerve-wrecking integral with pen and paper. (Organizers said that only three individuals were able to get the correct answer!) Hoard the Integrals was one fun round where the participants had to solve as many integrals as possible in a limited amount of time, and they had to choose from 3 levels of difficulty.
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The tournament started with a preliminary pen-paper-based round where the top 24 teams were chosen to participate in further rounds described above.
The rounds were a mixture of point-based and knock-out systems, with the first day having initial rounds in a point-based format where the team having the lowest score in a group got eliminated. The second day, was the day of semi-final and final rounds, which were knock-out in nature. While the third day was the final showdown, where the top 3 teams emerged as victors.
3-fun-packed days
If the description above falls short in justifying the intensity of the competition, the organizers have an anecdote to share.
One round just before the finals had gotten so intense that 7 tie-breakers had to be conducted to choose the team going to finals!
That’s just one special case that got mentioned; there were other tiebreakers, too, and many intense battles that can’t be done justice just by words. After 3 days of nerve-racking integral solving, IITR got the winners of the first ever Integration Bee conducted!
Results and rewards
The winners of the first edition of the tournament are listed below:
Winners
MathMania — Pawan Lahoti, Ashish Singh, Rishabh Kumar [3rd year Chemical]
1st Runner Up:
Fas-Fas Fourier Transform — Mohit Rajbhar, Uddipt Gupta, Archit Isham [3rd year MSM]
2nd Runner Up:
Math π-rates — Devanshu, Vasu Aggarwal, Dikshant [2nd year ECE]
The winning teams were awarded cash prizes and medals.
That was the first edition of Integration Bee at IITR for you. PaAC assures you the second edition too!
Stay tuned!
