Joanne Missingham


Joanne Missingham is an Australian-born Taiwanese professional Go player who has participated in international and domestic Go tournaments. In 2010 she came second in the Qionglongshan Bingsheng Cup and won the 1st Taiwan Wei-ch'i Association Women's Professionals Representative Right Ranking tournament. As of 2016 she has a Go ranking of 7 dan.

Life and career

Missingham was born in 1994 in Brisbane, Australia before moving to Taiwan at the age of four. She studied under professional Go player Zhou Keping and later moved to San Diego in 2005 with her family. In 2010 she became a 1 dan member of the Taiwan Chi Yuan and in the same year was promoted again to 2 dan after coming second in the Bingsheng Cup.
Missingham gained media attention in 2011 when she, along with other female players boycotted the Qiandeng Cup after having learned that male players were being paid US$886 per game while female players were not paid at all. In a later tournament she held up a fan with the words in Chinese "protest gender discrimination".
In 2016 she signed a record deal with Taiwanese record company Seed Music to appear in adverts and television productions.

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