[IronicDeadBird]

I'm the kind of guy who no longer plays video games that are fun. I play the really frustrating ones so I don't mind the noodles from a gameplay standpoint. But when designing a robot you are given roughly the general spectrum you need to perform under. It was clear from the start that even if you didn't plan on using noodles they would end up on the field so designing around that is something that teams should have done. The noodles I saw being thrown were done on a "when I can basis." I personally love the idea of the noodles because I love how it enables a team to play defense, without throwing defense onto the role of a robot. Last year there were so many shoving matches which while fun to watch didn't really add much to the games complexity. The thrown noodles makes defense a decision, instead of a state of being. The decision is "Do I need to move this noodle" the state was last years "are these two robots locked in a shoving match for a majority of the round?" In my personal opinion decisions are much better for the flow of a game then forcing people into states of hard defense.