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Re: Is your team planning on throwing litter?

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Originally Posted by c.shu View Post
Reasons to not throw litter:

A) Very rarely (if ever) will you see a team that can consistently get them over the step and past the other alliances landfill to get any points.

B) In the rare case you do get it that far, they will probably be close enough to the other teams landfill it will take very little time for them to score them in their own landfill.

C) If they end up on your side of the field they will likely be an obstruction to driving, a lot of teams wont compensate for driving over them and may incur a penalty for damaging a game piece.

D) I personally don't want to take the time from stacking my totes and containers to get a lousy few points when I could be getting 42 for a full stack.
Agreed with the rarity of the situation, but I don't think it'll take that much time away from stacking since it's gonna take like 5 or so seconds to safely place a stack of six plus can.

I can also see where driving would be a problem, but if your human player can't throw the litter more than 15 feet or so then that's where the problem is

I'd also rather attempt to get 12-28 points(3-7 noodles) even if you risk giving them 3-7 points. Because any alliance that is going to benefit from 3 points isn't a threat in qualifications anyway(elims is different)
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