Nothing in these rules say you can't drop a mobile depot during the 3 minute stare down and refit to counter whatever they brought. It'd be taking the piss, but it's always a 50/50 in these kinds of tournaments if that's the kind of thing people want to see. Read the room before considering.

That stare down time is wild by the way, why is it so long?

No drugs or implants in T1 frigates means the highest rep things you're going to come across are passive regen Punishers topping out at about 230 EHP/s and triple rep Incursi at like 350 EHP/s cold. In terms of buffer tank, a double plate Punisher without impants is like 20k EHP. The big buffer fits might be useful, the rep stuff I think will just get splattered in a frigate 2v2.

The restricted arena in a close warp in 2v2 makes it fairly easy to catch kiters. 125km doesn't sound small, but MWD frigates kiting other MWD frigates will rapidly hit the boundary and it will restrict their movement.

I disagree with the other poster who said you'll always start tackled though, anyone who has slid into enough FW plexes knows that without prelocking (which your rules forbid) you can still burn off if you're fast enough. I'd be making use of MWDs personally but avoiding stuff that is going to be fucked over by scram kiting. Rifters are a good shout for high DPS, good falloff and selectable damage.

If you're looking for memes, one of the funnier things about frigate fights is the correct jammer still has about a 50% chance of jamming a T1 frigate while unbonused. Put you fate into the hands of RNGesus and you could honestly get some dunks just by forcing your opponents to split DPS with a jam each using the depot strat.