Xenon is one of the tables in the current tournament, and as far as I know, in real tournaments if the ball drains down the centre and bounces back up, that's a lost ball. However, since this is a digital tournament, how do people feel about contining playing with that ball? I've had this happen a hand full of times, and when it does I quit and start again because it annoys me, but i'd interested to know what other people think about it.
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Xenon centre drain bounce back
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Pinballwiz45b
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There's a post somewhere underneath the apron that you probably don't see, and that's what's probably causing them to come back into play.
That's what we call a Lazarus, because it goes down the middle but has enough speed to come back up to the flipper.
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Thanks for the reply. I looked into it and apparently in real tournments it's allowed as long as it happens without player intervention.
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The games of that era, Xenon and Centuar, had rubberized posts featured elsewhere for players to use. Other games with a center post, Pinbot, feels more like a band aid for sour playfield interaction. Tournament runners may take the center posts out, <reasons>, but I feel if they do that they should turn off auto saves on modern games. When watching streams of modern games I see a lot of this, xyz feature throwing the ball into the drain/outlane and the game just gives the ball back.