You've heard the 4Kiddies say basically the same thing over and over again. "Ahem- uncut YGO?  HAH!  As you know, the YGO franchise consists mainly of dubbies who are ignorant of any... 'original' version, plus the current YGO fansub base I do not believe would be large enough to support such a venture.  And mind you, it is the duty- and necessity- of EVERY money-making company to be as greedy and selfish as possible to survive and thrive even if it means certain fans must be screwed in the ass!  Sorry to, ahem, burst your bubble, but I do not believe uncut YGO would be a wise business venture for 4Kids Entertainment to pursue, so sorry!"

Alright, so we know the idiot's arguments.  They can be easily counteracted and it's highly debatable whether or not the current "4Kids YGO uncut excuse" is even true to begin.  But for the sake of this editorial let's just assume that they are and play along with it.  So then if that's the case.... then what's the best thing to do to counterract this excuse?  Get as many people as possible interested in YGO fansubs and expand the YGO fansub fanbase.  And what's the best way to do that?  Simple- get somebody to subtitle the first season of YGO.

As Kevin pointed out in his first anniversary editorial, the first season of YGO was the best one.  It stayed true to the original manga and wasn't nearly as "cardgame" focused as the later series eventually got.  Thus, this part of YGO would be the one fansubbers might express the most interest in.  Plus- get this- pretty much all of it has already been shown in Shonen Jump and been read by 100,000's, or even millions, of American anime/manga fans!  There'd definitely be huge interest in this project among fans.  Other previously or still unlicensed shows like One Piece, Naruto and Shaman King have benefitted in the fansubbing community thanks to Shonen Jump building up interest in them so there's no reason why YGO wouldn't either. Furthermore- the first season is unlicensed!  And given the nature of the first series (not very "cardgame", different animation overall, more violent, etc.) it's unlikely it will be or if it was it'd probably have to be uncut/dual-version to sell very well.  4Kids and nobody else have said anything about it being licensed and it doesn't look like it will be anytime soon.  Thus, bit torrents for it can be openly advertised freely all across the net be it on animesuki.com or whatever the top YGO fan sites are today.  4Kids has built up a lot of anger over butchering Shaman King and will probably continue to misdub and piss off more fans over time- so plenty of fansubbers would probably already have quite an axe to grind with them or will in the future.  Not only that but thanks to Shonen Jump, many fansubbers have already seen the first series manga-form and- as it's truer to the manga than the rest of the anime series and they're already familiar with it- it probably wouldn't be too hard to find a person of group with the time, energy and dedication to fansub the first 27 episodes.

Anbu/Aone, Anime-Empire or Toriyama's World would be good picks. (these are the only fansubbing groups I'm really familiar with to reccommend but I know they're pretty good and that there are lots of other really good groups out there) And if none of these groups would be interested or you don't know
anyone who would be-

http://animesuki.com/group.php

There are approximately ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THREE DIFFERENT OTHER GROUPS
that could be asked too!

Now we don't want someone with really bad spelling/grammar spamming all 183 different groups they know nothing about all in the course of several hours. (and to any of guys if this does happen, sorry in advance and please don't hold this against the 99% of the YGO fanbase or the possibility of one day doing this project, some people are just extremely hyperactive about this stuff) The best way for this to work would be for someone who's familiar with a group's work and has seen a lot of it and knows them fairly well (and has good spelling/grammar/etc.) to contact them and see what they have to say, and these groups should only be contacted one at a time individually in a openly well-documented format in a specific place.

http://dbzoa.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=4dfe6805a8c4a1dd2addad78a79a713e&forumid=47

And if anybody does want to do this then make a topic about it on the Dbzoa 4Kids board (hell, I'll probably do it myself) and mention which group you're contacting before contacting them (and remember, just contact only one member of any perspective fansubbing group, preferably the main guy in charge, and no more than one. If the person responds no, don't try to bug other members and simply move on to a different group. The contacted person will probably at least mention the idea to other members in the group even s/he's not interested and says no, so you don't really need to worry about talking to more than one person) and give them a week or so to respond. (aka, DON'T contact more than one group at a time, or contact someone if another group's been contacted and there's a response in waiting)  Then, post their response and if it turns out to be no or they haven't responded within a week, be patient and calm (aka, don't curse them out or complain to them for refusing, fansubbing is a free service after all) then move on to another group.  Even if there are a lot of "no's" in the process this should generate lasting interest among the contacted groups and perhaps one of them will eventually decide to watch the first YGO series someday and then decide to fansub it.

So what are you guys waiting for?  If you really want to expand interest in original, uncut YGO by expanding the current YGO fansub base- then this is the first step which needs to be taken.