How about instituting a drop deck for scouting matches?
3 mechs min max tonnage, say 60 to 120 tons.
The matches could be engineered the way FP is with reinforcements arriving on the same map or after the first wave there could be an entirely new map to fight over etc. until all mechs have been destroyed. Damaged mechs would be carried over to the next fight.
Piloted until destroyed!
