First apologies if this has been covered before....just point me to the thread if so....

I have noticed that in duel tournaments, the pairings are done a bit differently than I would expect....I think an example best illustrates my point.

Imagine a duel tournament with only 4 entrants....the way that pairings work, The top rated player (#1) would play the third rated player (#3), and #2 would play #4. What I would expect is the model more commonly seen where #1 plays #4 and #2 plays #3.

The impact this has is for players in the 1400-1500 rating (usually), in a 64-person tournament, they will either be ranked #32, in which case they will get the easiest matchup in the tournament (#64), or else they will be ranked #33, and thus get the toughest matchup in the tourney (#1). Would seem to me that #1 should play #64 and #32 should play #33.....

Or is there a reason for this that I'm not aware of.

Thanks.

Originally posted by srpurchase
First apologies if this has been covered before....just point me to the thread if so....

I have noticed that in duel tournaments, the pairings are done a bit differently than I would expect....I think an example best illustrates my point.

Imagine a duel tournament with only 4 entrants....the way that pairings work, The top rated player (#1) would pl ...[text shortened]... and #32 should play #33.....

Or is there a reason for this that I'm not aware of.

Thanks.

Those are standard swiss system pairings.

BV

Originally posted by srpurchase
First apologies if this has been covered before....just point me to the thread if so....

I have noticed that in duel tournaments, the pairings are done a bit differently than I would expect....I think an example best illustrates my point.

Imagine a duel tournament with only 4 entrants....the way that pairings work, The top rated player (#1) would pl ...[text shortened]... and #32 should play #33.....

Or is there a reason for this that I'm not aware of.

Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_system

You're talking out tournaments which use 'Original' pairing instead of standard 'Random' pairings. 'Original' tournaments ensure the top players don't meet till the end.