[Jacob Bendicksen]

While it's not difficult to get a fresh KOP noodle 15-20 feet with a few minutes of practice, keep in mind that noodles after Week 1 events will be anything but fresh. They'll be driven over, crushed in intakes, and take all sorts of other abuse, all of which make them not fly straight. Fresh noodles are reasonably rigid, which means that some sort of javelin-ish technique can be used to throw them, but once they start getting weak spots and bends they won't fly nearly as far.