Whirligig had the play everyone who practices and shows on match night. it didn't work well for us but i felt it was the right thing to do so i did and we lost... frequently. We did have a good time though. We tried a lot of different lineups but do to a general laziness on our part most of our disruption and other toons weren't fully accoladed and their pilots weren't experienced on them but we had fun.
Basically we were willing to give anyone a shot regardless of experience and we often paid the price. We got help from the Freaks, Velocity, JAL, and OS but I think JAL worked with us the most and I think we were starting to get things figured out (long way from there) when we all bailed thanks to closed beta.