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Originally Posted by Sparkyshires
While that sounds good, the probably is that this is FRC, not FLL. While I love FIRST's impact on younger kids to make them try and want to do good in the world when they grow up and inspire them from a young age, that has never been FRC's goal. FRC has always been through and through, a competition where gracious professionalism and advancing STEM in the community is the most important. We have never had a themed game, because as rude as this may sound, it's childish. We are big boys and girls and deserve a big game to get hype about. The moment they start unbalancing the score points, (or have to rebalance everything after kickoff which would be a nightmare) - which anyone who plays league of legends knows that such a major score change would cause havoc among everything else - just to send the same message that it's bad to litter, is the moment that FRC has lost it's way in my opinion. FRC is not going to get popular in the community through games named stuff like "recycle rush"
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That may be. I agree, it's a little childish and not the most exciting idea for a game name they've had, but the fact of the matter is, it's not subject to change, so there's no use in complaining about it or debating its merit. Rather, we should focus on turning the game into an exciting one, which doesn't exactly happen if every team just dumps a bunch of game pieces on the ground and leaves them there. If the point value for processed and unprocessed litter was switched, it wouldn't affect the point balance so much, except perhaps making it more worth your while to move the litter than leave it lying around. If you don't want to look at it from a moral standpoint, at least look at it from a game standpoint: 20 game pieces would suddenly be moving and having purpose rather than sitting around like rubble.