Yeah you have to re-select quickplay after each match to get into another one.
And yep, Predator matchmaking seems to be taking longer tonight than the last few nights, though it's definitely still not as bad as it was before. It'll be a shame if it really was just the release of Dutch that improved the Predator matchmaking times and not anything they did with the patch itself, as I've been loving the much shorter wait times as Predator.