Silver moth, just to avoid confusion on the gyms, my idea was to get people interested in the gyms by having standard OU battles. I know the guys were talking about having all kinds of funky gyms with unique challenges, but I would like to stick to the original plan for the gym for now.
As gym leader, you have an OU team with 4 or your six pokes having your gym type. You are yourself trying to get badges from 7 other gyms to go to the elite 4. You might see DH ragging on me from time to time because originally I wanted 8 gyms that were not too hard, but then DH's gym was utrahard becasue he is a great battler and he is not capable or turning it back a notch so people can get their badges. So I opened it up to 16 gyms so that there would be a mix of hard and not as hard gym leaders.
But I do want to keep the gym and the elite 4 in an OU format.