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18 May 1980
Gwangju, South Korea — A series of student-led demonstrations has just erupted against the military dictator Chun Doo-hwan. The ROK is actively suppressing the protests, and has been firing on the students. At least 165 people are confirmed dead, with the death toll rising every hour.
Score 2 the lack of proper nouns requires this to lean too much on the flavor text
Score 1. Sorry, but this could refer to any of a thousand different events. The lack of proper nouns is nice but that’s not the entire actual objective here.
Score 2 for the vagueness, would have preferred some proper nouns.
Anything that isn’t war related would be 4+. Score 4; vague.
Score 3 - the acronym is great but it feels just lined it’s something that has assuredly happened rather than a historical event (flavor text aside)
The hyphenated “Nation-State” is a little much on the trickery side. Score 2.
This Backronym is now closed.
None of the words in the title of this Backronym included all the letters of any of the Buzzwords.
aria gained 3 Points from the median Score.
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Bucky:
Score 3
I’m giving a bonus for avoiding proper nouns in a round where it was very difficult to do so, but this backronym could stand to be a lot less vague about which historical event it refers to.