If you’re a fan of the NFL and Star Wars, this is a great week.
The NFL Draft begins Thursday and runs through Saturday. Fans of the Carolina Panthers to the Kansas City Chiefs all have high hopes.
And in the universe of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… The Return of the Jedi is back in select theaters this Friday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its release. Also, the latest Star Wars video game, Jedi: Survivor will be released on Friday.
Also, May the Fourth is next week.
The convergence of these events gave us – the staff at For The Win – an idea:
STAR WARS DRAFT.
We laid out a few ground rules, randomized a draft order, set up some categories, and went to work on our draft boards.
Each person would pick one from each of the following categories: Film, Animated Show, Live-Action Show, Video Game, and a Wild Card Extended Universe pick – which wound up being everything from comic books to Pepsi cans. For the Live-Action Show category, we made Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew, and The Acolyte eligible even though they aren’t released yet.
The snake draft order was as follows: Mike Sykes, Mary Clarke, Matt Scalici, Mitchell Northam, Charles Curtis, Cory Woodroof, and Blake Schuster.
Here’s how our teams of Star Wars content shook out. The numbers next to the selections is the overall pick in which they were taken.