We’re back!
Heyo! Sorry about the long, long delay – it’s been A Time. Short version: Melbourne is an awful city to do business in – everyone is either incompetent, criminal, or…
Spreading the love update
So, in 2021 I put up a post outlining a plan to donate a portion of the proceeds of PacifiGo to charities. I then proceeded to do precisely nothing with…
2020 Australian Go Census
So, the website is in a much better shape than it was – many thanks to Genius Girlfriend 2D! But that’s not what I’m writing about today. No, today I’m…
Our Story
Running a club, sourcing new equipment is always a question. Stones get broken or lost, boards get loaned to other clubs, and before too much time passes you find yourself short. So I found myself asking “Where can I get replacement sets when I need them, without breaking the club budget (literally)?”
I did some research, and like most of you, I found that go sets are really, really expensive. Like, unnecessarily so. Like most of you, I wasn’t after kaya floor boards with slate and shell stones, with bowls made from the skull of Go Seigen and Cho Chikun. However, I also didn’t want to use really ugly, low-quality sets where the stones are about one-third the size they should be and made of bad plastic, while the boards are printed on styrofoam. Turns out, there wasn’t anyone providing that.
So I decided to fix that.
My goal with PacifiGo is very simple. I believe go (also known as baduk in Korean or weiqi in Chinese or igo in Japanese) is a very fun game, and more people would enjoy playing it if they had a chance. However, the sheer difficulty of sourcing quality equipment, especially in Australia, makes for a massive barrier, both for individual players, and clubs. So, by offering quality but affordable equipment, I hope to lower this barrier.
While most of my orders are from Australia, I have customers from the USA, the UK, the Czech Republic and New Zealand. So evidently this isn’t solely an Australian goal!