Berger Pairings - RefsTech/rug GitHub Wiki

Berger pairing is mapping between fixed numbers (lets call them draw number) and a team identifier. These pairing are fixed for every two contiguous number of participants in a tournament starting from 3.

Before the start of every championship there is a lot, which decides which team will take which draw numbers. So for example if during the lot team A draws number 1 and team B draws number 3 and there are 5 or 6 teams in this championship team A will play against team B in round 3, match number 2 (the one with 🍎).

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3 or 4 Teams

Round / Match	1	2
1	1:4	2:3
2	4:3	1:2
3	2:4	3:1

5 or 6 Teams

Round / Match	1	2	3
1	1:6	2:5	3:4
2	6:4	5:3	1:2
3	2:6	🍎 3:1	4:5
4	6:5	1:4	2:3
5	3:6	4:2	5:1

and so on...

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Source: http://www.tournamentdirector.co.uk/berger_pairings.html