If it is a double round robin, how would anyone here know? The USCF rulebook (5th ed.) shows the pairings for a single round robin for 5 or 6 players on page 295. Your tournament director should have that book. Notice with 5 players, pairing number 6 is a bye. The pairing numbers are assigned by lot. Was your "seed" based on ratings? That should work and is not the problem you have. In the table is below the colors look even.
- 3-6 5-4 1-2
- 2-6 4-1 3-5
- 6-5 1-3 4-2
- 6-4 5-1 2-3
- 1-6 2-5 3-4
I'm 3rd seed in a 5 player single round robin tournament. For some reason my pairings have me playing 3 games as Black and only 1 as White, while the 5th seed has 3 Whites and 1 Black. What's more, I have Black against that player.
I don't really mind; my stats say I score about 10% lower as Black than as White, but I'm in it mostly for fun. Still, I am curious: is this normal?
I would think that balancing colors would be one of the goals in pairing a single (meaning each player faces each one of the others only once) round robin. It's not like it's impossible. If we just switch the colors in my game against the 5th seed, everyone in the tournament will have 2 games as White and 2 as Black.
Or am I misunderstanding things? Is this not really a single rr but a double rr with the games divided up into two rounds? In other words, will I play 4 addtional games against the same players after I complete the games I'm currently in?