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Magnet Fishing

Title text: The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

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Magnet fishing is an activity where a powerful magnet on a rope is lowered into a body of water, with the intent being to grab magnetic items from the bottom.

A World Magnet Fishing Championship was apparently only held once, because of the contestants' magnets getting stuck together. This resulted in the fishing lines becoming tangled together, or "tied", for a pun on the competition being declared "tied".

Magnet fishing is the act of using a magnet to find ferrometallic objects in a body of water. It can be used to recover specific lost items, or simply to see what interesting or valuable items can be found. This is reminiscent of magnetic fishing games (such as "Let's Go Fishing" and "Go Fishing") where players use fishing rods with small magnets on the ends to "catch" fish.

The title text states that the competition's prize would have been a "fishing monopole" which could refer to a fishing rod, also called a fishing pole, with only a single rod rather than multiple. Most fishing rods only have a single pole so this would not be considered rare. It could also refer to a magnet fishing rod where the magnet is a magnetic monopole rather than a magnetic dipole like all known magnets. This would certainly be rare since no magnetic monopoles have been found and thus would be a valuable prize for a competition. The currently known laws of physics require that if magnetic monopoles exist, electric charge must be quantized. Electric charge is quantized which is consistent with (but does not prove) magnetic monopoles existing. It also looks like a tautology, though the first "ten-way tie" depicts how the ten lines are 'knotted' together, and the second indicates the equality of the final score. This suggests that nobody 'fished' anything other than "all the other nine magnets", prior to the inevitable conclusion.

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[10 characters are stood on a bridge over a river or another body of water. They have all cast fishing magnets over the edge and are holding their ropes. However, their magnets have all stuck together due to being too close and none have reached the water below. All 10 characters appear confused or inconvenienced. The characters from left to right are: Hairbun, Ponytail, Cueball, Megan, another Cueball, White Hat, another Megan, Hairy, another Ponytail, and another Hairy.]

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The first, and last, World Magnet Fishing Championship

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