What are peoples experiences trying to emulate another authors style or tropes? Is there a specific method you'd use when trying to impersonate a different style and have you gotten anything of value from the exercise?

The reason I ask is that I've had an idea for an event (or series if it's popular) and way to promote different writers on here and so I've become interested in the topic of people trying to copy other styles.

My idea is essentially a weekly contest. On Monday I'd pick a writer who has volunteered their work and the participants would have until Friday to produce a short piece that sounds like it's part of that writer's work (including the original writer).

Then on the Friday I'd post links to each piece and over the weekend people would vote on which piece they think is by the original writer. The winner is whoever convinced the most people that their piece is genuine and not a forgery. The process would then repeat with the winner's work now being the focus of the next week. If the original Author wins then they get to pick the next author instead.

I think it could be a potentially fun exercise (but not one that would necessarily fit here so I'd put it on its own subreddit) and an opportunity to expose people to writers of different styles (because obviously the more diverse and experimental the writers the more interesting the contest).

Thoughts?