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Re: Pool Noodles -- How Important?

We may or may not outfit our robot with a way to move unprocessed litter to the landfill... We may or may not outfit our robot with a way to carry litter from the human player zone to the landfill... I suspect, however, that we will have access to enough gray totes that we will be able to score a lot more points putting totes on the scoring platform than we could ever score hauling litter to the landfill...

Once the robot is complete constructed, we'll be practicing quite a bit and timing various ideas and routines to see if it is worth our time to shove a pool noodle into each recycling bin as we create our stacks.... We'll see what the stop watch says.... I'm not sure how keen I am on even having humans throw the noodles... Those things can disrupt a robot as its working in the landfill (assuming a good throw!) or attempting to make stacks. I could see a poorly thrown noodle or two significantly hurting an alliance's scoring potential... It just doesn't seem to be worth the risk as an attempt to score one point.

Of course, if we find nice, firm noodles that will fly quite well, being able to land them on the other side of the field makes a whole lot of sense...

In a nutshell, if we do anything special for the noodles, it will be a low priority, only created if we are so fortunate to already have a robot that does everything else we want well.