Carrom has always produced great stories. A board that turns on a single slam, a queen covered under pressure, an underdog who runs the table in the final round. Clubs and communities have lived these moments for generations. The trouble is what happens after the moment passes. A scoresheet gets filed away or lost, a result lives only in someone's memory, and a tournament that meant something to fifty people disappears from the record within a year. Historically, carrom organizations have struggled to hold on to their own data, and with it, the stories the data could tell.
COVID changed one part of this. When in-person play stopped, carrom found a second life on video. Clubs and players who had never thought about streaming started putting games on YouTube, and audiences who had never watched a tournament online discovered they liked it. That shift proved something important: people want to watch carrom, not just play it. But it also exposed a gap. Streaming a game is one thing. Running an actual tournament around it, with registration, draws, live scoring, and a stream that looks like it belongs on a real broadcast, is a much harder problem, and most clubs simply do not have the technology or the staff to solve it.
That is the gap Carrom Live was built to close.
A ready-to-use portal for every club
Carrom Live exists on a simple idea: no club should be limited by technology. A club running a weekend tournament out of a community hall should have access to the same kind of tools a large federation would use, without needing a developer, a broadcast crew, or a budget for any of it.
The portal gives club admins everything needed to run an event from start to finish:
- Announce the tournament publicly, so players know it exists and when it's happening.
- Register players and teams through the platform, replacing paper sign-up sheets and scattered spreadsheets.
- Conduct the event with structured draws and brackets that update as results come in.
- Live score every board as it happens, so standings are accurate the moment a match ends.
- Stream the action to the club's own YouTube channel, with broadcast-quality overlays layered directly on top of the live score.
- Rank players automatically, so every tournament feeds into a lasting, accurate record instead of disappearing after the trophies are handed out.
A club can run singles, doubles, or team events, and choose the format that fits the occasion: Swiss, round robin, single-elimination knockout, double-elimination knockout, or qualifier and eliminator style. More formats are on the way. The goal is that whatever shape a club wants its tournament to take, the platform can support it, rather than forcing every event into the same mold.
Streaming with real broadcast quality
One of the biggest barriers to live streaming carrom has always been production quality. A phone propped on a stack of books pointed at a board is better than nothing, but it does not tell the audience the score, who's playing, or what's at stake. Carrom Live solves this by letting any club connect its own YouTube channel and stream with the score, player names, and tournament context overlaid automatically in real time, at a level of polish that used to require a dedicated broadcast setup. All it takes on the club's end is a phone.
More than a tournament tool: a player's permanent record
While clubs use Carrom Live to run their events, players get something just as valuable: a profile that follows them. Every tournament played, every ranking earned, and every stream recorded lives in one place, tied to that player, searchable and permanent. For the first time, a player's carrom history, across clubs, cities, and even countries, can be seen in a single view instead of being scattered across memory and hearsay.
And this record isn't reserved only for serious competition. A player can connect their own YouTube channel and stream anything: a practice session, a casual game with friends, or a serious tournament match. The bar to participate is the same one the platform sets for clubs: all you need is a phone.
A commitment to stay free
Carrom Live is free to use, and that isn't a limited-time offer or an introductory rate. It's a commitment: free forever, no catch. The platform exists to remove barriers for the carrom community, not to create new ones.
Getting started
For club organizers, getting started means one step: request access to the club portal, and begin building tournaments, streams, and rankings that will actually last.
For players, there's nothing to set up. Just log in through player login, and start building a record of every game worth remembering.
Every board. Every point. Finally, a place where none of it gets lost.