Well, given how many people signed up to work with us after that first time, I'd like to think people actually liked the events we did.
And at the very, very least, we were consistent with our rules and setup. Our ground gym leader would not be running around with a freaking Zapdos.*
Additionally, they had no identifying marks and while they were advertised as being the original 8 gym leaders, as far as I was told by my little birds, not one of them was doing any pokemon cosplay. Overall, far more disappointing than I feel we were in our first outing. If I wasn't getting wrapped up in doing more Cosplay Chess and possibly running Masquerade, I might be tempted to start a real Sakura League.....
*= It would be a Honchkrow because that's what he had in the games god dammit!