I really like the quick 8's with consolation rounds. Its strikes a good balance between competition and making runs/having fun. Everybody has a chance to make at least 2 elim passes. If you go out in the first round, you still get to run in the consolation round. This makes a quick 8 with 8 cars still fun.
If events support it I think 2 quick 8's should be run however there should be an attendance threshold of a certain number of cars before its implemented, not just 16 cars.
While match racing makes for some real good racing it can lose its fun aspect if there is a big gap between you and the next fastest, or sombody had issues in qualifying but got them sorted for the 2 out of three or if there is an odd number of cars and you qualify last to make bye runs. Perhaps the 2 out of 3 match races can be restructured to make sure that stuff doesn't happen???
Perhaps we can get Ralph to shave his head and do the arm drop thing while guys negotiate how many lengths they get.