Hey Dash, Thanks for asking :)
I personally didn't have a plan ahead of time or suggest a plan to others for the new featuring rate. I did send feedback to imgflip last Thursday, asking if they could slow the featuring rate down to every hour or half hour just for the Page 9 Party hour. That didn't happen... but the volume of memes in the Latest queue was pretty large and a slower pace would have made for a gigantic batch at 10pm.
When the new batch came out at 9:15, clinksler made the call and left a comment to move the party to the new Page 9. That seemed to work fine. From what I can tell we successfully promoted the following memes to the Hot pages.
imgflip.com/i/26pvmq .
imgflip.com/i/26q1ns .
imgflip.com/i/26pyet