It's happened three now, the chaos ball will occasionally glitch if a player dies and another picks it up.
First time I the player with the ball died, a few folks piled onto the ball and it vanished on my screen. Couldn't see it on the compass. All I noticed was we were gaining points. We fought almost the entire match, until almost the end I died, and dropped the chaos ball. Never took a DOT, had no animation.
Second/third time same deal but another player opposing team had it. Could see the ball on my compass, only knew what color had it, couldn't pick out the particular player. No animation, no AOE/dot.
My suggestion. Make this glitch permanent! These two times were way more fun for me then chaos ball has ever been. It made you need to attack the whole team, and work together to figure out who had the ball. This brings about some great, almost deathmatch like fights, instead of kiting with the ball and running. Or just focusing one guy with the ball, grabbing it and playing cat and mouse. It was awesome!
Either way, it's not working as intended. Xbox 1 X NA sever.