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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Top Guns line up for MindsportsTT Games

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Sports Desk
2081 days ago
20191107
President of Mindsports TT Jason Mangaroo, second left, and Principal of the St Michael’s Community College Nishka Sewdass Mangaroo (Financial Manager), second right, with students of St Michael’s Community College as they compete in a game of monopoly recently.

President of Mindsports TT Jason Mangaroo, second left, and Principal of the St Michael’s Community College Nishka Sewdass Mangaroo (Financial Manager), second right, with students of St Michael’s Community College as they compete in a game of monopoly recently.

The na­tion’s top play­ers in ten dif­fer­ent "Mind Sports" will line up to par­tic­i­pate in the in­au­gur­al Mind­sport­sTT Games when ac­tion rolls out on Sun­day at the Cara­paichaima East Sec­ondary School for the North, East and Cen­tral Zones start­ing at 10 am.

For the first time in the Caribbean, 10 Mind­sports games which in­clude chess, draughts, scrab­ble, mo­nop­oly, domi­noes, speed Ru­bik cube, su­doku, cross­word, sin­gles pairs all-fours and bridge will be played at one venue at the same time.

At a joint meet­ing called with all the stake­hold­ers for Mind­sport­sTT Games, and all the Na­tion­al Gov­ern­ing Bod­ies (NG­Bs) in­clud­ing the T&T Chess Fed­er­a­tion ( TTCF), T&T Scrab­ble As­so­ci­a­tion ( TTSA), T&T Draughts and Check­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTD­CA), T&T Con­tract Bridge As­so­ci­a­tion ( TTC­BA), T&T All-Fours Fed­er­a­tion (TTAFF), Mo­nop­oly As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (MATT) and in­clud­ing the new­ly formed Speed Ru­bik Cube As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SPRATT) ex­pressed sup­port for this ini­tia­tive as it rep­re­sents a uni­fied ap­proach by all NG­Bs to de­vel­op the in­tel­lec­tu­al minds of cit­i­zens in which the event was cre­at­ed to pro­mote mind sports to all cit­i­zens from as ear­ly as five years old to be­yond 60 years of age.

Ja­son Man­ga­roo, pres­i­dent of Mind­sports TT in­di­cat­ed that the tour­na­ment is tar­get­ed to­wards nu­mer­ous Pri­ma­ry and Sec­ondary Schools, Ter­tiary lev­el Uni­ver­si­ties and is open to the gen­er­al pub­lic in every com­mu­ni­ty with­in T&T.

He said that this event will en­sure stronger par­tic­i­pa­tion and a deep­er im­pact with the cur­rent cur­ricu­lum be­ing de­liv­ered with­in class­es and al­so help the gen­er­al pub­lic par­tic­i­pat­ing to have a greater ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the tremen­dous ben­e­fits to them and the re­spec­tive sports.

At the meet­ing, Nish­ka Sew­dass-Man­ga­roo, Prin­ci­pal of the St Michael’s Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege pre­sent­ed a cheque to Mind­sport­sTT as one of the co-spon­sors of the event and stat­ed that her Col­lege is very ex­cit­ed to be part of this event and will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in all the events.

She en­cour­aged oth­er Prin­ci­pals to sup­port this event as this will ben­e­fit stu­dents in their crit­i­cal think­ing, cog­ni­tive de­vel­op­ment and aid in the so­cial­i­sa­tion process.

Lin­coln Per­sad, mar­ket­ing di­rec­tor of Mind­sport­sTT in­di­cat­ed that the or­gan­i­sa­tion has re­ceived tremen­dous sup­port from all the NG­Bs who have since part­nered with Mind­sport­sTT and it was re­fresh­ing to see the en­thu­si­asm shown with this project as it rep­re­sents what co­op­er­a­tion with sports stake­hold­ers can do for the de­vel­op­ment of all the mind games but more so for T&T.

He went on to add that the NGB’s will help Mind­sport­sTT in the man­age­ment of the games and will work to­geth­er with them to make this event tru­ly his­toric.

Fazeed Ab­dool of Mind­sport­sTT in­di­cat­ed that this event of 10 mind sports is open to the gen­er­al pub­lic and will have four age cat­e­gories in­clud­ing 12 and Un­der, 18 and Un­der, Adults Open and Over 60.

For each cat­e­go­ry, cash prizes and tro­phies will be at stake. The prize struc­ture is as fol­lows: In the Over 60 /Adults Open first place gets $3,000 and Chal­lenge Tro­phy; sec­ond re­ceives $2,000, third $1,000 and fourth $500; 18 & Un­der/12 & Un­der: first $1,000 and chal­lenge tro­phy, sec­ond $500, third $300 and fourth $200.

The top 16 win­ners in each sport and cat­e­go­ry will al­so re­ceive medals and cer­tifi­cates of par­tic­i­pa­tion.


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