Being outed, especially as a kid or losing your job due to bad performance, as is the case in that other suicide out in CA are both heavy, heavy stressful events. No doubt. Terrible and tough to deal with. But such events leading to suicide, especially in the immediate aftermath of these events leads me to believe that these poor folks had a lot of other deep deep mental issues and were NOT just struggling with sexual identity or not being able to get 2/3 of your class to pass an exam.
And "Kill the guy with the Ball" as we called it, is as FAR from "bullying" as one could get. In our school(s), it was the ONE game where EVERYONE, from EVERY clique played and punishment was doled out in equal portions! Same for it's second brother, the Jr. high school equivalent we called..."suicide."