The concept is interesting, I think maybe the game just needs polishing. The player felt extremely slow to me and the pace might be a bit boring for my taste, maybe making it faster and also making the rest of the game play a bit faster (or adding an option for changing game speed)? I don't know, it just wasn't very fun to me. Also, this seems to be a bug: the player and friends don't seem to reset after you finish a match, so you have to reload the game to play again.
Overall though, I think there's potential in this.