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High rated opponents in bullet tournaments

Hello,
I really like playing bullet tournaments on lichess.org, but often I have a problem with many very high rated players (2000+) playing against me. Yes, every chess master says that you should always play against stronger opponents than yourself to learn something, but when you play bullet, you don't want to learn much!
I've seen that there are already "U2000" tourneys for blitz or classical, but I think that there should also be such tournaments for bullet. Or that you should be getting paired with players with similar ratings as you and NOT the ones at a similar tournament rank (These are often very high rated players who simply have played less games than you!) What do you think about this?
I agree that the system is probably pretty flawed here. Maybe an idea could be to only look at the ranks when both players are either in the top 10% of the tournament, or the amount of games played by one player divided by the amount of games played by the other is between 0,5 and 2,0

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