The Noodle Agreement

[Sparkyshires]

Originally Posted by Mrjcowman

The net gain idea is good, but, unfortunately, that still ends up with it somehow being okay if both sides are covered in litter, as long as they are equally covered in litter. I'd venture to say, from a "recycle rush" standpoint, that's still kinda wrecking the spirit of the game.

It would make far more sense if processed litter was worth more points than unprocessed litter. It encourages proper disposal techniques as opposed to littering, increases the benefit of the strategy I mentioned above, and, if alliances still wanted to make noodle agreements, makes the easy way out worth a lot less. If you wanted to get real points for a noodle agreement, you would agree to put equal numbers of noodles in the landfill.

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"