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🏆 Indy State Yo-Yo Contest | Celebrating skill, style, & community in the heart of Indiana.

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Chicago Yoyo Club and friends! We all had a great time hanging out and throwing at @indystates this weekend. Special shoutout to all of the amazing competitors especially @noah_throws_yoyos , @zion_uhhh , @kawaiiveeig , and @isaacv213 for their podium finishes. by @indystates

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Be sure to watch the Indiana State X-Division Champion, Spencer Davis' incredible routine tomorrow at 2pm. See you guys there! taken in Irving Theater by @indystates

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Get your practice sesh in tonight! Tomorrow is the big day. taken in Irving Theater by @indystates

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Here's our official schedule for tomorrow. taken in Irving Theater by @indystates

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See you guys tomorrow when we crown the new Indiana State Yoyo Champion!

Irving Theater
5505 E. Washington St.
Indianapolis, Indiana 46219 taken in Irving Theater by @indystates

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Tomorrow, Saturday September 19th at INDY States, I will have 6 limited edition Wolverine Ibis up for grabs… come see me at the Featherspin table…

Featuring my original artwork
Each throw hand dyed by me by @indystates

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There is a very real possibility that the 2026 Indiana State Yo-Yo Contest would not be happening without Bradd Collins.

I don’t mean that figuratively.

At a point when I badly needed stability, focus, and the space to keep this enormous project moving, Bradd gave me exactly that. He gave me room to work, organize, and keep building Indy States when I needed it most.

That changed everything.

Some things can be repaid with money. Others change the direction of your life. I don’t know that I can ever properly repay Bradd for what he did, but I can pay it forward:

The Indiana State Yo-Yo Contest is going to continue indefinitely.

And beginning this year, 2026, that promise has something physical attached to it:

The Hoosier Cup, presented by Circle City YoYos.

Every year, another Indiana champion will have their name added to it. Year after year, those names will accumulate until the Cup carries a history of its own. A permanent record of Indiana yo-yoing and the players who shaped it.

And Circle City isn’t exactly showing up quietly.

Bradd is bringing the crew, along with a release rooted in Indiana yo-yo history: an Indy States-exclusive Phoenix honoring Kyle Pearson, the most dominant champion our state has ever produced. Based on Kyle’s iconic Warbird design and finished in his signature brown-and-blue colorway, it feels less like a special edition and more like a tribute to Indiana yo-yo history.

And that represents what I love about Circle City.

The value is almost ridiculous.

Bradd has always seemed more interested in putting genuinely great yo-yos into people’s hands than squeezing every possible dollar out of them. Great yo-yos. Cool ideas. Indiana roots. People who genuinely care about the community.

That’s Circle City YoYos.

So calling them our Premier Yo-Yo Sponsor this year means something to me.

Bradd, thank you for the Phoenix. Thank you for the Hoosier Cup. Thank you for Circle City YoYos.

But more personally, thank you for supporting this contest—and supporting me—the way you have.

You helped ensure Indy States has a future far beyond this year.

Cheers to Circle City YoYos and the Indiana State Yo-Yo Contest.

See you all tomorr taken in Irving Theater by @indystates

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Nick Brown has managed to pack serious food, 25 pinball machines, live music, local art, a rotating wall of taps, and the general quirkiness of Fountain Square under one roof, and somehow, the whole thing works!

First of all, Nick has real culinary chops, and you can see it all over the menu. Smash burgers are only the beginning. House-made chili, Thai curry chicken, corned beef, pulled pork, truffle mac and cheese, hand-breaded wings, weekend brunch, chicken and biscuits, steak and eggs—and then all the little things: ALL SCRATCH SAUCES!!!, pickled vegetables, confits, and details that tell you somebody in that kitchen actually understands food.

That matters to me. I cook. I care about feeding my friends and family, so I notice those things.

Nick does too.

And then you finish eating and go play pinball.

That’s WildFyre.

It’s ambitious without being pretentious. You can have a genuinely great meal, catch live music or an open mic, play pinball until your quarters disappear, or bring the whole family in for brunch and let the kids loose on the machines.

And I really want to emphasize that last part, because the word “Tap” might give some parents the wrong idea: WildFyre is very much a family-friendly establishment.

Kids are welcome. Their regular pinball tournaments are all ages. It’s the kind of place where a dad can enjoy a beer while his kid discovers why pinball machines have been stealing our money for generations.

That spirit means a lot to us.

Indy States has always been about creating a place where a six-year-old picking up a yo-yo for the first time can share a room with people who have been doing this for decades.

It’s supposed to be fun, a little strange, welcoming to families, and built around something people become completely obsessed with for reasons outsiders may never fully understand.

Come to think of it, a family-owned restaurant with great food and 25 pinball machines probably understands us better than most.

Due to Fountain Square construction this year, WRTV reports that lunch business had fallen around 80%.

This absolute treasure has to be preserved, which is why we're so proud that they're one of our two premiere sponsors. taken in WildFyre Tap by @indystates

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Sometimes sponsors are special because of what they bring to Indy States. Sometimes they’re special because of the people behind them. Featherspin is both.

Jacob Lundak and I first met at UYYC, and honestly, I don't even remember what we talked about first. I remember seeing this absolutely incredible yo-yo case sitting in front of me and thinking, Who made that? I had to know.

That curiosity turned into a friendship, and over the years I've gotten to watch Jacob's creativity grow into some seriously incredible work. He's one of those people who can look at something and see an entirely different possibility in it. That's true whether he's designing artwork, building something, throwing, or just obsessing over some tiny detail that the rest of us probably wouldn't have noticed.

And now Featherspin is bringing something to Indiana States that makes me genuinely excited.

Featherspin is releasing the very first run of the Ibis, and the first edition is an INDY STATES EXCLUSIVE. That's a pretty wild thing to get to say.

The Ibis isn't just another yo-yo showing up on a prize table. It's the beginning of something new for Featherspin, and Indy States gets to be part of that beginning! I can't think of a better place for it.

Featherspin has always felt like the kind of company I want around this contest: creative, weird, personal, and genuinely invested in the people who make this little community what it is. And knowing the people behind it makes it mean that much more.

Jacob, thank you for believing in Indy States and for bringing something this special to our contest.

And to the whole Featherspin crew: thank you for being the gold standard.
I genuinely cannot wait for everyone to see what you've been working on.

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Featherspin Throws — Indy States 2026 Gold Sponsor

#IndyStates #FeatherspinThrows #YoYo #IndianaYoYo taken in Irving Theater by @indystates

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YoyoSam supported us last year in a huge way. Most sponsors give yoyos, which is what makes these contests so great, but YoyoSam has always added cash to the mix and it's kept our little state contest going. YoyoSam is reliable in every way a company can be. Their shipping process is the fastest in the game, every time. In addition, they've always been there for us organizers to make these events possible.

They were one of the big reasons our 2025 resurrection happened. So, we want to take a moment to really thank YoyoSam for their dedication to our craft.

I also want to briefly mention my very first yoyo sponsor way back in 2007, Spintastics. They supplied me with a lot of diabolos and yoyos over the years and I really could not have been where I am now without Dale Oliver's support and Stu Branoff's mentorship for my career in the show business. I'm really proud of their achievement with these yoyos their new bi-metal and the Illuminate. The Illuminate is my new favorite fingerspin mono-metal. The shape reminds me of a widened low wall G5, if you're old enough to know what that is.

We're so proud and honored to have YoyoSam in our corner. We can't wait to see what we're going to build together. taken in Irving Theater by @indystates

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Today, we want to thank Dert yoyos for their unrelenting support for the past several years.

Russell Andert is a force of nature—a powerhouse of creativity, experience, and technical skill when it comes to yoyo design. In fact, I can rightly say he's my favorite yoyo designer of all time. Even before I knew who he was, the Dert was my favorite yoyo for decades, so it's apropos that Round Spinning Objects feature his yoyos because it's some of the best artwork I've ever seen in the yoyo industry.

If you own a yoyo company, take notes because the creativity and marketing are the best in the business. Visit their store site and you'll see what I mean.

https://roundspinningobjects.com/store

Thank you, Russell, from all of us in Indiana from bottom of our hearts. taken in Irving Theater by @indystates

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