https://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Watkins_Pole 2026-10-11T05:47:27Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.35.1 https://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Watkins_Pole&diff=52846&oldid=prev 2021-10-27T20:58:28Z

<p>Removed redirect to <a href="/wiki/Quizbowl_lingo#Watkins_Pole" title="Quizbowl lingo">Quizbowl lingo#Watkins Pole</a></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left diff-editfont-monospace" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:58, 27 October 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">#REDIRECT </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Quizbowl lingo#</del>Watkins Pole]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;onlyinclude&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The &#039;&#039;&#039;Watkins Pole&#039;&#039;&#039; is the figurative object which represents the sensation of playing extremely [[difficult]] </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">question]]s. To be &#039;&#039;&#039;hit with the </ins>Watkins Pole<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&#039;&#039;&#039; is to encounter a [[category]] edited to be so difficult in a given [[set]] that it is all but unanswerable even by the top active players in that category.  The name derives from the [[Chicago Open|2010 Chicago Open]</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, at which the [[Andy Watkins</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]-edited [[science]] proved too much for the second-place team (containing [[Seth Teitler]] and [[Selene Koo]]) and the third-place team (containing strong science players [[Mike Sorice]] and [[Ray Luo]]), effectively eliminating the science category from the tournament and enabling a relatively science-poor team to take the championship.&lt;/onlyinclude&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{c|Quizbowl lingo}}</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Kevin Wang https://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Watkins_Pole&diff=48844&oldid=prev 2021-05-13T23:24:57Z

<p>eon</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>#REDIRECT [[Quizbowl lingo#Watkins Pole]]</div>

Ophir Lifshitz