Wiz,
IMHO
I know you are trying to do a nobel and good thing here but I feel you should have stuck to some normal type of event .. toned down for rookies. Backyard Brawl, LTS, etc ..
This event has rookies doing all the things we DONT want them to do normally .. runwaying, spawnkilling, ramming etc. Some of these young pilots frankly will have a ball.. great time .. and take that into FFA etc.
The time and day is great. . in the future .. lets have more 'rookie' events on the same day and time .. but not the format you are doing this Dec 1.