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Mixing double drums: How would you pan them?

I'm mixing a project with two drummers on most of the songs, much like The Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers etc. I've been pondering my panning approach and, though I've kind of got it figured out, it would be useful to hear what others have done or think they would do with two kits before I settle on something.

Approach to using Multiple Sets of Monitors for Mixing

Howdy!

A lot of people these days (including myself) use and own multiple sets of monitor speakers for mixing.
This really got me thinking about how there is so many ways to apply multiple sets of speakers while mixing.

For example (just a couple different ways) you could...