The idea of a painting league is nice, cause peeps can paint all the time, though, it's kinda like the ToG, unless we set some kind of "deadline" to take part to the next step for the vote to determine who's the "champion" BUT, everyone would still be able to take part ot the whole event with in the end, ONE BIG deadline that would declare the "champion" and the end of the event
About the theme picking + vote, what would be nice is: pick some theme, make a poll on forum for one week with various choice and after a week see which one wins. Then peeps could start painting for some time (say 3 weeks) but the nice part is that they would have had a whole week to start thinking on the themes which would let them paint for the whole delay on the winning theme and not working on an idea and building it like it's in the IP contest. Dunno if i'm clear on that point



