The Noodle Agreement

[John]

Originally Posted by matthewdenny

FIRST could also color code the noodles. Red team throws red noodles, and only get 4 points for red noodles in the blue zone. I'm sure there are more details to work out, but I've only had the manual for a day.

I think this is the best solution, if FIRST decides to prevent this situation via a rule change. No points are awarded to RED if BLUE drops its own noodles its side. RED only receives points for getting its own (red-colored) noodles to the BLUE side. The color allows referees to easily determine which noodles originated on each side.

A variation of the agreement still would exist, where each team agrees not to remove the noodles that the other team throws across the field, but this is less of a problem (because it is harder to throw the noodle ~35 feet over the opposing alliance's LANDFILL ZONE than to just drop the noodles on your side).

The one side effect I can think of for this change is this removes the "penalty" (not really a penalty, a bonus to the other side) for accidentally dropping one of your noodles and failing to remove it. I don't think this is a particularly important component of the game though.