Triangle Belles & Chimes

Kat Lake, Samantha Bacon, Dusk Adams, Elia Lake at Triangle Pinball Collective celebrating their wins!

New year, new winners! Congrats to Sammie, Kat, Dusk, and Elia for making Top 4 of our first Belles and Chimes Saturday Tournament of the year!

1) Kat
2) Sammie
3) Dusk
4) Elia

More fun to be had in the coming months! Support local #Pinball!

Frances with her win

Samantha on her win

Winning the Women's Tournament was our Triangle member, Frances Staelin, as well as Samantha Bacon, who took 3rd.

We are here to play pinball and enjoy ourselves. That's what inclusivity stands for; the right for everyone to be seen and be celebrated.

Congratulations to the winners! 🏅

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Said affected players made the courageous decision to not play in the Women's Tournament, as well as those who decided to compete anyway to make a statement that way. Regardless, the incident should not have happened in the first place.

Of those who still competed, we can celebrate their wins:

3/4

This player, a trans woman who was trying to enter and use the women's bathroom normally, was harassed and the entire venue had to deal with transphobia for three hours, effectively demoralizing a whole contingent of players from competing. This is unacceptable.

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We at the Triangle Belles and Chimes would like to remind all that trans women are women, and trans rights are human rights. This weekend at Flippers in the Outer Banks, an egregious violation of the IFPA's Inclusion Policy happened during the tournament, where a player was harassed.

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Flippers OBX 2025

Good luck to all the Triangle BNC Competitors heading to Flippers in the Outer Banks this weekend!

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*Treats not necessary to participate, but encouraged!

Fall in to Pinball! Our first tournament of November will be held at Mordecai, and we'll be having a small potluck as well! If you can bring some nice food treats, you can enjoy a great celebration of warmth, fun, and food!

7 PM ET Nov. 13!

#pinball #bellesandchimes #tournament #november

Oct 13th Belles and Chimes

October 25th costumes!

🎃 Two October Events, Two Opportunities for Costumes!🎃

We recently held events on October 13th and October 25th, which was a blast! Everyone dressed up in their finest and had a great time!

October 13th 1st/2nd/3rd: Frances / Joan / Dusk
October 25th 1st/2nd/3rd: Ellen / Samantha / Dusk

#pinball

9/18/25 Tournament Poster

Our next #pinball tournament is the Thursday September 18th, at a new location: MORDECAI on Crabtree Blvd in Raleigh! Starts at 7 PM! #BellesandChimes #Tournament

Winners!

Group Photo!

Players competing at Flight Deck!

Thanks everyone for coming out last Saturday for our monthly Belles and Chimes at Flight Deck! @flannel.live did a great job running the tournament, and we had great competition, including the top 3 contenders who took home prizes~!

🥇Samantha Bacon 🥈Kat Lake 🥉Kennan Staelin 🏅Lynn Sikma

Belles at Roshambo!

Monday, August 14th Tourney Results!! We had torrential rain make it difficult to attend the venue, but our Belles enjoyed the sounds of #pinball to the storm outside!

In the fierce weather, we had new winners; Heidi Reule took her first second place finish, and Kennan Staelin took her 1st first!

Reminder! Our next tournament is Monday, August 11th, 7 PM at Roshambo! Come out for some summer fun, as we enjoy the last vestiges of the heat before the fall arrives! #pinball #BellesandChimes #Tournament #BNC

Monthly Pinball Tournament, Starts at 3, Doors Open 2, Every 4th Saturday for the rest of the year!

Starting in August! Monthly Weekend Tournaments at the Triangle Pinball Collective in Raleigh, NC! Come join us for some #pinball, some fun, and great people! #BellesandChimes #Raleigh

Kat Lake, holding the WIPT 2025 1st Place Trophy at Pinburgh 2025

Congratulations to the Triangle's own @flannel.live for attending, playing, and WINNING WIPT 2025 at #Pinburgh (inside the Rezzanine Esports Center) in Bridgeville, PA! Her field was dominated by the luminaries of Women's #Pinball, and it came down to a final nail-biting game of Flight 2000! 🎉🏆🥇

The top four finalists!

After a long fought 3~ ish hours, we had our top finals shake out as such:

1) Samantha Bacon
2) Kat Lake
3) Ash Harmeyer
4) Feletia Lee

Congratulations to our hard-fought competitors and a huge shoutout to everyone who attended!

Also Che Empanadas got completely cleaned out of their truck!

The Belles and Chimes July tourney!

Belles #2

A few lovely dressed participants!

Happy Monday! This weekend was the Triangle Belles and Chimes' LARGEST event ever! With 25 players, their partners, and support, the Belles charged forth to flip out the July heat away inside Flight Deck, NC!

The tournament had a top and bottom finals each! Everyone did their best to win!

Lina, who attended Southern Fried Gaming Expo in Atlanta, GA, poses with a rainbow Women's trophy in front of a Space Invaders pinball table by Bally.

Congratulations to our very own @derbyghost.bsky.social winning the Women's finals at Southern Fried Gaming Expo in Atlanta! She traveled this weekend to compete in both the Women's and Main tournament, and took home a beautiful trophy! Amazing performance!

Format is 3 hours of matchplay qualifying followed by a top and bottoms final.
www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/...

Lots of parking and located on the west side of the triangle near RDU airport.

9521 Lumley Rd, Morrisville, NC 27560

Pinball Tournament for Belles and Chimes - July 12 3 PM Start Flight Deck!

Next month at Flight Deck! Come attend our new SATURDAY event, where we plan to have fun matchplay, finals, and more.

Support local women's and nonbinary pinball!