How and Why did I join the Race??

      It was just before SHAASTRA 2010 - Our Institute's annual technical festival in early October. I was just seeing how the fest was publicised in various websites and I saw this competition - 'The Great Power Race". When I saw the Rules and Regulations. It just said "Which country will get the most number of teams - US,China or India?". And as I was a patriot myself, I had registered my Institute as one of the 900 odd campuses that was going to take part in the race in the future.