The 'Newdle' Agreement

[Tom Bottiglieri]

You trollin?

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

You trollin?

He trollin.

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

He trollin.

I trollin if you trollin

We trollin den.

But seriously, I wouldn't bank on the human players from both alliances being able to get all the noodles over to the other side of the field.

[PayneTrain]

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>none of the new kids get my old internet maymays
> mfw

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

>post boxxytrollin.gif
>none of the new kids get my old internet maymays
> mfw

No, it's got to be those crazy youts...

[Skyehawk]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

No, it's got to be those crazy youts...

Lol, my cousin Vinney, great movie.

[nighterfighter]

While the math to your solution may be correct, the ability to get the situation for the math to work, will be very difficult... (Getting >8 pieces of litter over the STEP. Remember, only humans are allowed to throw it across, robots are not allowed to.)

[asid61]

Could be possible, but much harder to uphold.

[alopex_rex]

The problem with this idea is that even if the alliances make the agreement, throwing the noodles across is so hard that maintaining the agreement would be difficult. In practice, whichever team was more successful at throwing the noodles would get more points out of the deal. So it would essentially become a competition to see which team was able to throw across more noodles--

Wait, that's exactly how it's supposed to work, isn't it. Well played GDC, well played.

[JohnFogarty]

Throwing the noodles that far is easy.... I may have a bias because both our human player and I are 6'4"+.

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

Throwing the noodles that far is easy.... I may have a bias because both I and our human player is 6'4"+.

+1

[pmangels17]

What incentive would a team have to make such an agreement if they had the ability to throw the noodles that far? Why wouldn't it be better for an alliance to throw their noodles to the other side of the field, score whatever lands on their own side in the landfill, and score more points that the other alliance, therefore giving them more points in their qualifying average than three other teams?

It seems as though the rules lend themselves to a strategy where each alliance tries as hard as they can to score as many points as they can, while minimizing the scored points of the other alliance. That would be the point of FIRST Robotics COMPETITION.

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

This are dumb.

Let's just throw our own tubes and agree to try to score the most points for our own alliance.

-Gooooooo blue team!!!

[mrnoble]

Go ahead and write a contract for your idea, OP. Pass it out at your competition and request feedback.

Should go well.

[jaykris284]

Seems like the "Noodle Agreement" has been fixed. While the Newdle Agreement is a noble concept I think it will overly complicate the game.