The death save is a pinball move to bit** slap the ball back into play after it wusses out and goes down the right outlane. "GET BACK HERE SUCKA, I AINT TRUE WIT YOU YET."

The death save is so manly you can't use it in tournaments cause all the sissy types start crying and their tears short circuits all the games.

The death save was invented by GLADIATORS in Ancient Rome, and Spartacus killed four men while doing death saves one-handed!

If you are a sensitive sissy person, you may wish to not watch this video, as it's manliness may make you cry yourself to sleep on your giant rainbows and ponies pillow.

OHH!!!! <takes down video> Hope nobody saw that!

Both tricky in their own way. Maybe I'll make a bangback video. COBRA KAI PALM STRIKE!

I don't know. A bangback is more like Kung Fu. A death save is more like Conan. Bruce Lee is manly, but Conan is MAS MACHO!

Properly done, a death save doesn't hurt a machine.

Death saves used to be allowed in some tournaments a long time ago from what I've read, like up until the late 80s.

The video, if it isn't painfully obvious, is very tongue-in-cheek. But to seriously answer, I don't allow them in my own tournaments because it would triple the play time of some players who are very good at them (bangbacks too). Pinball tournaments already run long enough.

The other reason is because allowing them would simply be unpopular. Many people don't do them for whatever reason - some feel it's cheating, others worry it will mess up the game - the reason doesn't matter so much as I know there are enough people out there who don't want to do them. If I allowed them in a tournament, the only way for people to be competitive would be to learn them, so all those people who don't want to learn them would simply not come.

I've thought about a head to head format that's timed, and you might be allowed one death save or bang back per round. From a spectator standpoint it would add a lot of excitement.