Just so all players know: it is in our best interest to sub 1 winning match in this round, so we can lose 3 cards and field one less deck next round. We'll have to suicide next round regardless, so its better to do this now.
Not necessarily. I just did the math and here are the card counts.
8-1 379 = 9 players +109 cards
7-2 343 = 9 players +73 cards
6-3 307 = 9 players +37 card
5-4 271 = 9 players +1 card
4-5 235 = 7 players +25 cards
3-6 199 = 6 players +19 cards
2-7 163 = 5 players +13 cards
1-8 127 = 4 players +7 cards
0-9 91 = 3 players +1 card
So basically the only really bad records are the ones in red