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+-- Seed the first season for AI Code Battle
+-- This creates Season 1: The Founding, the initial competitive season
+
+INSERT INTO seasons (id, name, theme, rules_version, status, champion_id, starts_at, ends_at, created_at) VALUES
+(1, 'Season 1: The Founding', 'The dawn of automated competition — bots clash for the first time on symmetrical battlefields.', '1.0', 'active', NULL, NOW() - INTERVAL '7 days', NULL, NOW() - INTERVAL '7 days');