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I'll be trying this with my tournament in June:
Noob Tournament
Local (open)
Type 1 2-player
Beginning with any starter deck, an upper limit of 56 cards, and only removing 4 cards from the starter deck (so total, you can only add a total of 10 outside cards)
I think that this would help new players compete with old hats, as well as being an interesting deck building challenge.

I would put in TGT and AoCP every single time.

We're talking new players here.  Sealed may be a foreign concept to them. 

Sealed is perhaps the easiest game play variation that we have.  No mess, no fuss, just take a starter deck, some packs and simply augment what you have.

but instead of the booster packs 3 TXP's make it more fun and exciting