The Noodle Agreement

[bharrison6]

Originally Posted by Sparkyshires

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"

I'm not entirely sure I agree with this, however I can agree that as a mentor and educator trying to grow a program its hard to get students excited about a game like this as opposed to a game like last year. It's exciting to see robots run into each other at full speed and have pushing matches. At the same time this kind of game has more roots in actual robotics used in industry. I think the mechanics used in this kind of game. (Pick, Stack and place) could be introduced in a more exciting way, rather than a recycling themed game.