[FSPA] VBH Quick Results

[Kevin Stone]

Being used to no extra balls on, it’s even harder to remember collecting an extra ball even when noticing it when it happens.  This happened to me last week during Pinabler Tour, I got one, played a while longer and once my ball drained I walked off.  Luckily the next player noticed.

Another reason it’s best to have EBs off if at all possible.  League finals could make an exception if the operator is available to disable extra balls.  Regular weeks would be a pain changing them off then on again.

From: FSPA [mailto:fspa-bounces at fspazone.org] On Behalf Of Dave Hubbard via FSPA
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 5:29 PM
To: The Free State Pinball Association
Cc: Dave Hubbard
Subject: Re: [FSPA] VBH Quick Results

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 4:47 PM The Bob via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org<mailto:fspa at fspazone.org>> wrote:
The only reason a player would be "in trouble" for telling another player to play out of turn is if they were intentionally cheating.  In that case it's the SLOs discretion to kick the offender out of league.

This.  It's sometimes not obvious you have an extra ball/zero-point ball save.  Later last night I was playing Elliott on TX-Sector and didn't realize I had collected the extra ball during multiball (I thought I drained before collecting it), so when I was done I walked off the machine.  He noticed it, told me, I went back and played.  Simple.  There's almost never any nefarious activity here and it's always solved by paying the slightest bit of attention.  As Steve said, it's always the player's responsibility to play when they are up and not play when they are not up.  It doesn't matter if someone says "you're up," or walks away from the machine or whatever.  You address the machine, you verify you're actually up, or you get DQ'd.  It's really not hard.

Now, if someone is intentionally trying to trick a player into playing out of turn, I agree it would likely be handled by invoking the cheating clause because that's not cool.  But I can't say I've ever seen someone do that.

            --- Dave

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