Can you solve the BOWL RIDDLE? ft. Kurt Hugo Schneider Part 1/3

Well, since the video started with an ice vs. water riddle, my first thought would be to allow the water to freeze, then break it up and have it pushed to the side so the ping pong ball can then fall to the bottom. However, this may be in violation of "the floating ball". So adapting the idea would likely lead me to doing a vortex of sorts (rotating the bowl would be one option, or introducing some sort of current at an angle to cause the water to spin and open up the center. Alternatively and in a similar fashion, having an air bubble come up from the bottom that is large enough to allow the ball to drop, but that seems less feasible in the real world. I know things like gas pockets can cause ships to sink, but I feel like water would fill the bottom of the bowl back up before the ball could actually make contact. So, vortex.