Mornin', y'all,
I'm definitely going to try adding the pinballs that roll around, as I said in the map description. Though it will have to come quite a bit later on in the future, after I've finished all the map geometry and main functionalities of the map, I imagine it'll be the most complicated component to add, which is why I'm reaching out to YOU, the community, to help me brainstorm ideas.

Specifically, if anyone has ever made a map involving a temple with a big big boulder that chases the player, that functionality would translate perfectly here.

As for what I've come up with so far, I think making the pinballs into a func_rotating parented to an invisible func_tracktrain would work really well.

However, I haven't thought of a way to increase their speed when they're falling or how to dispatch them properly when they fall/when the players finish a lap; there's also the issue that, though one player might have exited the "ball zone," others might still be present, so WHEN exactly they despawn will be weird.

If this becomes too difficult/complicated, I may simply have a number of premade balls that occupy an area without ever spawning/despawning and just loop throughout their own zones.

Please, let me know your thoughts if this kind of thing interests you; chances are that I want to see this thing realized just as much as you :)