Blind Go

Journal Community
Name:	Blind Go
Date(s):	July 2006-May 2016 (last entry)
Moderator:	Current: akichan, verloren1983; Past: blue_cage, trixie_chick, chaineddove, stillskies, silvermuse89, tarigwaemir
Founder:	tarigwaemir
Type:	Challenge
Fandom:	Hikaru no Go
URL:	"Blind Go community". Archived from the original on 2017-10-16.
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Overview

Blind Go was an anonymous guess-the-writer fic-writing challenge in Hikaru no Go fandom, run from the blind_go community on Dreamwidth and formerly LiveJournal. Writers are given a period of time to write one or more piece of fanfic within a certain word count range and then submit them to the mods, who publish them through the sockpuppet journal answer_key. Writers are allowed to collaborate on a submission if they so choose. Readers then attempt to guess who wrote what from a given list of the participating authors.

There is a separate support community, Kifu Archive, which hosts support threads for each round where participants may comment anonymously and organizes periodic chats for the participants during the challenge.

Most rounds also include an additional optional [1] that authors may choose to incorporate.

There are prizes offered to the reader(s) with the most correct guesses, the reader(s) who left the most comments, the first person to correctly guess the "theme" behind the author IDs and the writer(s) who incorporate the most themes according to a rubric judged by the mods.

History

The idea for the community was inspired by subrosa_tennis, another guess-the-writer challenge in Prince of Tennis fandom.

In the first year, there were three separate rounds. Starting with the second year, it became customary to hold one themed round in the fall, one mini-round during the winter, and one "author's choice" round timed for Hikago Day (May 5), though this is not a defined rule and moderators have deviated from this in the past.

Round	Dates	Theme	Word Count	Allowed No. of Entries	No. of Participants	No. of Works
1	July-Sept 06	Author's Choice	500+	3 max	21	29
2	Nov-Dec 06	Short Fic	100-1000	5 max	35	83
3	Mar-May 7	Long Fic	5000+	1 max	23	23
4	Aug-Sept 07	AUs & Crossovers	1000+	2 max	29	33
Mini-Round 1a	Jan-Feb 08	FST	n/a	n/a	6	7
Mini-Round 1b	Jan-Feb 08	Fanart	n/a	3 max	10	12
5	Mar-May 8	Author's Choice	500+	3 max	39	52
6	Aug-Sept 08	Smut-OR-Gen	1000+	2 max	22	27
Mini-Round 2	Dec 08-Jan 09	Drabbles	100-500	5 max	19	57
7	Mar-May 9	Author's Choice	3500	3 max	12	12
8	Aug-Sept 08	Cliche	555-5555	5 max	12	12
9	Mar-May 10	Author's Choice	250-1000	5 max	16	24
10	Aug-Sept 10	Sai	250	10 max	24	47
Mini-Round 3	Feb 11	Flashfic, All Dialogue or No Dialogue	100-3000	no limit	11	22
11	Mar-May 11	Childhood	1000+	5 max	12	19
12	Aug-Sept 11	New Wave	500+	5 max	16	21
13	Mar-May 12	Memories	3500+	3 max	11	11
Mini-Round 4	July 13	Flashfic, Summer Heat	100-10000	no limit	9	11
14	Aug-Sept 13	Author's Choice	1500-8000	5 max	12	19
Mini-Round 5	Nov-Dec 13	Shortfic, Winter	under 1500	5 max	9	11
15	Mar-May 14	Foreign Players	5000+	5 max	8	8
Mini-Round 6	Jul-Aug 14	Non-fic	n/a	5 max	8	9
16	Aug-Sept 14	Genderswap	500+	5 max	9	8
17	Mar-May 15	Author's Choice	1000+	5 max	n/a	n/a