Originally Posted by pmangels17 (Post 1423863)

There is a better way of doing this without any changes to point values, or confusing coloring schemes. Simply award points for the NET unprocessed litter on the field. Here is how it would work.

Suppose there are 6 pieces of unprocessed litter on the blue side of the field, which would under the current rules give the red alliance 24 points.
Similarly, there are 5 pieces on unprocessed litter on the red side, giving the blue alliance 20 points.

Instead of scoring the red alliance 24 points and the blue alliance 20, take the net number of unprocessed litter, which in this case is 1, because there is 1 more litter on the blue side than the red side, and award the red alliance points according to the net number of unprocessed litter, in this case 4 points.

This way, there would be unprocessed litter on the field, but it would not matter how much is on the field, just the difference between the two sides.

A consequence/benefit to this rule change would be that every time you move a piece of litter to the landfill zone, you score a point for processing it, and change the net unprocessed litter by 1 in your favor, effectively making scoring a piece of litter in the landfill zone worth 5 points if there is unprocessed litter on the other side of the field.