Spear of the Nation - 2025 ACF Nationals

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Interviews with members of this group about a set of holiday attacks open the seventh chapter of a book about them by Paul Landau. A commander of this group, who with Denis (10[1])Goldberg set up its first training camp in the town of Mamre, was the first to die while detained under the so-called 90-Day Act. During a military campaign in the Wankie (10[1])Game Reserve, (10[1])this group joined forces with ZIPRA. Along with the APLA, this group was integrated into the SANDF (“sand-F”). This group was officially formed in protest (10[1])of the Day of the Vow, (10[1])a holiday (-5[1])that commemorated an 1838 victory by Andries (“AHN-dreess”) Pretorius. In response to Ruth First’s assassination, (10[1])this group (10[1]-5[1])committed the Church Street bombing. (10[3]-5[2])This group, formed after the Sharpeville Massacre, (10[4])had most of its leadership (10[1])imprisoned in the Rivonia (10[1])Trial. (10[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, name this paramilitary wing of the (10[1])ANC. ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Spear of the Nation [or uMkhonto weSizwe; or uWs; accept MK; prompt on ANC or African National Congress until read; prompt on uMkhonto] (Paul Landau’s book is Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries. The second sentence refers to Looksmart Ngudle. The 1838 battle was the Battle of Blood River.)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Jakob Myers	Indiana	North Carolina A	31	10
Benjamin Chapman	Toronto A	Rutgers	62	10
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Columbia A	64	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	UC Berkeley A	88	10
Ian Lu	Georgia Tech	Chicago B	94	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Chicago A	96	-5
Parth Jagtap	Toronto C	Johns Hopkins	110	10
Qingyu Zhang	Florida	LSE	112	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU	UC Berkeley B	112	-5
Jaik Havlick	Arizona State	Penn State	117	-5
Yared Tadesse	Cornell B	Columbia B	117	10
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Joseph Chambers	Virginia	North Carolina B	145	0

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Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	24	96%	0%	17%	115.35