Proposal: Anime character draft (alternately, video game character draft if there is more interest).
Details: So I'm sure many of you have heard of or played Fantasy Basketball/Football/Baseball/whatever sport before. My idea is that, instead of picking players, "owners" draft anime/video game characters instead. Each owner selects, say, 10 characters in a snake-draft format with pre-randomized draft order; for the sake of expediency, I'd envision such a draft taking place on an IRC chat channel or something.
Then, every week, there's a theme (i.e. Most Badass, Cutest, Smartest, etc.) and owners are paired against one another. In each matchup, the owners pick two of their own characters and pool them with their opponent's pair of picks, creating groups of four. Voters can then pick the one character from each group of four that they deem the best by that week's criteria; owners can also vote, but not on their own matchup. At the end of each week, the votes are tallied and the owner with the higher combined total votes for their characters in each matchup wins the round. An owner cannot select the same character to be used in two consecutive rounds. After X amount of rounds, the top eight owners are seeded in the playoffs and compete in single-elimination style until only one owner is left.
During the season, owners can conduct trades amongst themselves.
Looking for: I'm looking to gauge general interest, as well as to see if anyone would be interested in co-hosting this game with me.
If anyone would like clarification or additional info, please let me know. I'd like to just throw it out there right now that this particular idea isn't completely original (I've seen it on a few other forums), but I'm more than interested to throw some unique twists in it for fun. The rules and exact numbers (i.e., number of owners, number of characters per owner, time period per round, etc.) are not set in stone; if you have any suggestions, please let me know.