Yes, we named them that on purpose.
The people keeping the machine running so everyone else can go enjoy the event.
What is a Ball Handler?
Our Kink Dispenser volunteers, “volunteer” sounded far too respectable.
Ball Handlers help us keep the machine running, answer questions, assist with tokens, manage Golden Ticket prizes, point people toward the Kink return bin, and generally help with whatever delightful nonsense is occurring around the Dispenser.
If you need help and cannot find Master Malcolm or slave molotov, look for a Ball Handler.
But the balls are called Kinks
Correct. The things are Kinks. The volunteers are Ball Handlers, we’re allowed to have more than one joke.
Interested in handling some balls?
We want volunteering to be fun, connecting, and sustainable, not another way to spend an entire event working while everybody else gets to enjoy the event. Talk to us about the event you are attending, your availability, and what you would be comfortable doing. A willingness to help is excellent, being able to gently interrupt someone’s plan to shake a vending machine is also useful.
Please be good to the Ball Handlers
They are here to help, not to absorb everyone’s feelings about prize distribution. Bring them actual problems, do not corner them for free tokens, demand different prizes, or make them explain for the seventeenth time that the large Kink you have been watching is not available by special request. If there is one guiding principle here, it is this: don’t make the fun thing weird in the bad way.