If we are doing this again, maybe we should try a different "game mode" - maybe some small scenario, where we split in groups of three, so people can have a 3 v 3 at the NL jumpgate, a 3 v 3 at the Magellan JH and a 3 v 3 at the Dublin or New London jumphole? When one hotspot is cleared, the surviving fighters can join one of the other hotspots or something like that? I guess that would also add some light RP element, since we've got ranks and would have wing commanders.
It would be more fun, to me at least, if the snub-only event has more duelling in it, rather than group focusing on one target, and then moving on to the next when that's done. There wasn't much piloting involved.