Fantasy soap opera league launched
by Zack Stern 
{ Nov 13th 2006 at 9:35PM }
SoapNet has launched Fantasy Soap League, an online game modeled on fantasy football. Instead of charting a QB's passing yards or a kicker's field goals, the Soap League tracks soap characters' "soap moments." If characters on your team of six get slapped, take off clothing, wake up from a coma, or participate in other soap staples, you score points. For $10, the site tracks progress over ten weeks.The game seems like a cool idea for soap opera fans; we hope that it gets applied to other TV shows. For example, instead of critical game bombs like Survivor, which failed to simulate island life, designers (and marketers) could have built a game rewarding viewers' predictions. Sure, this type of game would have a narrow audience, but the style could be popular with fans.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
DarkTetsuya @ Nov 13th 2006 11:05PM
I want to see a new 'Mole' implementing an idea like this... It would've been even more perfect to be done while 'The DaVinci Code' was big in theaters.
TonyRockyHorror @ Nov 14th 2006 11:21AM
ESPN's SportsWriter came up with the idea for this over the summer and wrote an article about it that was publlished on ESPN.com.
Judd @ Nov 13th 2006 11:23PM
The best kind of show this would work for is Lost.
Matt @ Nov 14th 2006 3:11AM
They already have official fantasy survivor on the cbs survivor homepage. Or at least they did when I was in college. You could even win a car by playing well.
Chris Lawton @ Nov 14th 2006 7:09AM
Of course, what I want to know is who on All My Children is "going down?" Of course, Joystiq doesn't report the news that I want to know.
Anyway, I like this. It brings a bit more of an interactivity to a market that normally wouldn't touch a video game. Next, we just have to get them set up with Halo.
And who knows, it might be applied to other shows. SoapNet is owned by ABC, so, if it succeeds, they may jump on the concept and run it in to the ground. Before you know it, people can predict the outcome of Boston Legal cases and win a house while doing it.