OODA Loop - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 2: Bonus 20

This framework was introduced in the 1976 presentation Patterns of Conflict, which suggested strategies like “counter-blitzing” to get “inside” an opponent’s decision-making “loop.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this decision-making “loop” introduced by John Boyd, who described this “loop’s” four namesake stages to encourage the U.S. military to focus on “fast tempo” decisions, influencing the AirLand Battle doctrine.

ANSWER: OODA Loop [or Observe-Orient-Decide-Act Loop; prompt on the Boyd Cycle]

[10e] Boyd’s “OODA Loop” explained the oddly poor performance of one of these things made by MiG. Aping a 1930s group, Boyd helped organize a “mafia” named for these things and influenced the design of the F-15 one.

ANSWER: fighters [or jet fighters; or fighter planes; accept air superiority planes or air superiority aircraft; prompt on aeroplanes or aircrafts; prompt on jets; prompt on combat aircraft; reject “bombers”]

[10m] The Fighter Mafia created a theory of performance named for energy and this concept. “Wars of” this concept contrast with “wars of attrition” and focus on breaking enemy cohesion with surprise and positioning.

ANSWER: maneuverability [or maneuver warfare; or energy-maneuverability theory; accept word forms]

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
34	14.71	91%	29%	27%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Execute Order 6 7	0	10	0	10	E
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	C R A B S	0	10	0	10	E
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	10	0	20	HE
BHSU	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	10	0	20	HE
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	0	10	20	HM
Berkeley B	Stanford B	0	10	0	10	E
Chicago !A	Invective Against Swans	0	10	0	10	E
Copán Seethe	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	0	10	0	10	E
David Foster Gromit	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	0	10	10	20	EM
Dielectrical Materialism	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	0	10	10	20	EM
Indiana	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	10	30	HEM
JHU	Catholic University A	0	10	0	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	Guelph Cloze	0	10	0	10	E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	UNC Charity	10	10	10	30	HEM
Maybe Ever	St. Marx	10	10	10	30	HEM
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Contessa Dora	10	10	10	30	HEM
NYU A	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	10	0	10	E
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	0	10	10	20	EM
Noah Sheidlower	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	0	10	0	10	E
Northwestern	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	0	10	0	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Team 8	0	10	0	10	E
Penn State	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	0	10	0	10	E
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	0	10	0	10	E
Shipping Down from Ballston	Habitat 67	0	0	0	0
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	The Fire Neg Time	0	10	0	10	E
Team 7	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	0	10	0	10	E
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	0	10	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	Vacuous Tortoise	0	10	0	10	E
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	10	10	20	EM
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	[Redacted]	0	10	0	10	E
UBC A	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	0	10	0	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	The "C" Team	10	10	0	20	HE
W&L+Friend	Lex	0	10	10	20	EM
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	WashU	10	0	0	10	H

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	15.00	100%	17%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%