Holy cow guys, awesome responses, thanks for jumping on this! :D
Let's talk out some ideas before we jump into this. My 2 major hurdles for this:
1.) Getting people from different countries to get together LIVE and play. Time differences will wreak havoc on some matches. Especially if an Aussie would need to play an American for example or any situation where players are on opposite sides of the world. I'd rather not leave anyone out.
2.) What happens if you (either voluntarily or not) get disconnected during your match? The game doesn't allow us to pick up where we left off. So how do we deal with it when it happens?
Those are really my only concerns. If we can come up with some decent ideas on how to work around these, we can do this.
Also, as far as getting the 8 best, that's an idea for later on down the road. Right now I'd like just to get a small 'practice tournament' setup so we shake it down and see how it works out.
Ideas/suggestions anyone?