German Peasants’ War - 2025 ACF Nationals

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A panoramic depiction of this conflict was painted in the 1980s on a 123 foot-long canvas created by a textile combine in Sursk. Scholars (-5[1])are unsure whether the phrase “omnia sunt communia” was said by a figure captured during this conflict. Popular accounts of this conflict began with the Countess of Lupfen ordering a (10[1])hunt for snail shells. (10[1])A song about the leader of the Black Company during this conflict (10[1])notes (10[1])how he (-5[1])carried a banner (10[3])bearing an image (10[1])of a shoe and an untied lace. (10[1])This conflict (10[1])exemplified “the worst thing that can befall a leader of an extreme party” according to an 1850 history of it by Friedrich Engels. The Twelve Articles (10[1])written during this conflict may have been influenced (10[1])by Thomas Müntzer. (10[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])Martin (10[1])Luther (10[2])denounced (10[1])the “murderous” and “thieving (10[2])hordes” who carried (10[1])out (10[1])what 1520s (10[1])revolt in Swabia? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: German Peasants’ War [or German Peasants’ Revolt; or Deutscher Bauernkrieg; accept The Peasant War in Germany; reject “English Peasants’ Revolt”] (In the 1980s, East Germany commissioned a massive depiction of the German Peasants’ War. Thomas Müntzer was said to have replied “omnia sunt communia” to his torturers, who interrogated his motivations. The song “Wir sind des Geyers schwarzer Haufen” is about Florian Geyer.)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
William Orr	Yale	WUSTL B	23	-5
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Rutgers	53	10
Patrick Torre	Maryland	North Carolina B	57	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	UC Berkeley A	69	10
Allan Lee	Stanford	North Carolina A	70	10
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Toronto A	72	-5
Amogh Kulkarni	Georgia State	British Columbia	75	10
Cooper Roh	Columbia A	Northwestern	75	10
Qingyu Zhang	Florida	Penn State	75	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Chicago A	78	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU	Waterloo B	85	10
Michael Kearney	Harvard	Johns Hopkins	87	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Illinois B	113	10
Jacky Xu	Cornell A	Georgia Tech	121	10
Albert Yingzhi Nyang	LSE	UC Berkeley B	124	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	UCF	127	-5
Gavin Markoff	Vanderbilt	Ohio State	128	10
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	Arizona State	129	10
Liam Starnes	Chicago B	MIT	129	10
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech	Toronto B	130	10
Cade Reinberger	RIT	Columbia B	134	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan	Cornell B	134	10
Shardul Rao	Minnesota	Iowa State	137	10
Karan Gurazada	Texas	Toronto C	138	10
Alexander Nichols	UCF	Winona State	140	10
Sky Li	Toronto A	Waterloo A	144	10
John John Groger	WUSTL B	Yale	144	10

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	24	100%	0%	13%	107.04