For the 1st time in Sri Lanka the New light welfare
center organized a Carom tournament for vision impaired people. Playing Carom
is a challenging game for a vision impaired person, but the tournament was a
success.
16 teams participated in the tournament. It was a knockout tournament.
A team consists of one vision impaired person and a normal vision person. The
normal vision person should help the vision impaired person to identify the
positions of seeds. With the help of the normal vision person the vision
impaired person should put the seed to the hole by using the disk. Other non-playing
teams supported the playing team. The players in a team were selected randomly.
My team partner was a Korean person who hasn’t played Carom before.
In the first round we won our game. I pot 8 seeds out of 10. In the second
round I pot 6 out of 10. In the 3rd round I again pot 6 seeds out of
10. Then came the final round. After a tuff game we somehow managed to win. I
pot 7 seeds out of 10 in the final.
It was amazing how good vision impaired players were, because everyone
played well. After every shot the vision impaired player was curious to know
that did they pot a seed with their chance? Everyone enjoyed the tournament.
