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[Bug Report] 4 blacks in a row

I played in the hourly classical arena and got 4 blacks in a row. I've heard of some rules that you can only have 2 blacks in a row in a tournament, but I don't know how lichess is handling this. So I don't know if it is really a bug, but still, it's kinda annoying to play so many times with black. Please specify the lichess pairing system. Thank you.

Oh, and here is the link, I was on place 50:
en.lichess.org/tournament/VKYLVboY
i don't know,what is this-a bug or something another,but sometimes when i played in tournament i had to play 3 games as black in a row and after that 2 games as white.Maybe another people will say ,what it is?
It's just bad luck. Your last opponent also played the 3 previous games as black, so one of you had to be black a 4th time.
Yeah, imagine all the blacks (pieces!) win. Then one of them gets black again, then all blacks win and so on.

By the way, I remember a small otb ch open, I had 4 times black within the 5 rounds. In the last round I was paired against another player who had 3 times black in a row. Points are the #1 pairing criteria, so one of us got to get his 4th black game.
But is there some kind of rule that says you can't have two blacks in a row? Because I thought I've read that somewhere. And if that's true lichess should adapt to that.
Writing a forum post about this won't help you as you'll only get coherent and logical answers like #4.
The right way to protest is to premove 1...f6 and 2...g5. That will show Lichess to fix their pairing system.
#5 Only in OTB tournaments (Swiss system pairings) when it can be avoided.

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