About our first game - after f3 Qe3 might be even better, pretty much everything pinned or blocked.

About format for S13 - I would strongly prefer normal format over playing few games of one big tournament every week, which is really bad for people that cant be available every week. And also for their opponents assuming they wanna play and would won by not having opponent present. Plus it introduces another luck element.
However if for example 16 players are present splitting into 2 groups and playing round robin with 7 rounds all during one evening sounds interesting. Cons is ofc that if someone arrives late he cant play anymore that week.