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Episode 415: Kaylee Campbell
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago25 min listen
Fresh off her victory at the Women's Championship at INDISC, Kaylee has bigger sights in mind for 2025. Coming up, a nice tribute event in honour of the late Kevin Shanus at Super Abari, then the...
Highlights
- Kaylee Campbell won the 2025 Indisc Women's Championship
- Pinberg 2025 expanded to 244 participants (from previous year) and sold out on F5 day (February 5th)
- Kaylee won both Open and Women's state championships in 2023, finishing 6th at NACS nationals
- Kaylee won OBX tournament in November 2023, defeating Eric Stone and other top players
- North Carolina is in the top ten states for pinball participation by state payout size
- Pinberg tournament will have 20 satellite locations between now and end of June for those who didn't secure spots
- Kevin Shanus was the North Carolina state pinball director and helped establish scenes in South Carolina and Georgia before his passing
- Super Bari arcade nearly closed during COVID due to building owner selling the property, but community support motivated relocation and expansion
Notable quotes
“I've never had my name on a banner, and I've won a few things here and there, but I talk to people like yourself, and the prize money is great at InDisc and other things that you've maybe won in the past, but all that aside, it's the banner that's the real trophy in a way and really the legacy.”
“I love the herb qualifying. I feel like that highlights my skills the best... I struggle a little bit with the card format, but the group match play Pinberg style, I mean, is probably my favorite just in terms of getting to play with other people, feeling like you're in a tournament the whole time.”
“If I cried when I thought Pinberg was never going to happen again I cried 10 times harder when I thought Abari was going to close for good”
“Kevin is, especially when I started playing just about 10 years ago, He was a big influence on me discovering competitive pinball and what it's like to run and organize pinball tournaments.”
“How many big pinball tournaments do you get to hang out in a giant convenience store with almost 100 pinball machines and just have a good time and be around friends and competitors the whole time?”
“The women do a great job here. All the Bells and Chimes chapters are very inclusive of, you know, anyone that doesn't feel safe and necessarily all the open events and wants another space, which may be a little more focused on community and friendship and bringing food and just having fun while also competing.”
Entities
- Indisc· event
- NACS (North American Championship Series)· event
- OBX (Outer Banks)· event
- Pinberg· event
- Women's Worlds· event
- Bells and Chimes· organization
- North Carolina pinball community· organization
- Bill Mason· person
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Eric Stone· person
- Jay Collins· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Jim Belsito· person
- Kaylee Campbell· person
- Kevin Shanus· person
- Liam Bradley· person
- Samantha Bacon· person
- Zach Pulliam· person
- Super Bari· venue
- Port City Pinball· venue/event
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