Tournament TD Ruling Question on Fish Tales

[Snailman]

@YeOldPinPlayer

Addam’s Family. Player 3 plunges player four’s ball but does not validate the playfield. Ball drains and is served back into the shooter lane.

Player 3 given a warning or awarded a zero for the game?

Probably best in a thread about playing out of turn… but P3 got lucky by not having any impact on the game and shouldn’t be DQ’d, at least according to Pinburgh TD’s:

Interesting (?) discussion I just had with a player who was DQd for playing an extra ball out of turn

The Pinburgh TDs discussed this, and basically anything that didn’t change the game state would not be ruled a play-through. However, some other non-plungy things would, like selecting the skill shot on LOTR, selecting the song on AC/DC or selecting the play level on Motordome – all of those would result in a play-through DQ.