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http://www.examiner.com/cognitive-science-in-national/red-teams-win-more-than-blue-online-video-games
I don't have access to the sources referenced in the articles but this seems interesting. I've never really noticed a difference when playing team fortress 2 by being on red vs blue but I've always loved defense more than offense in TF2 on payload maps.
It interested me since GSL is (almost) always red vs blue, however, I have no idea whether that would make a difference in something that's not a twitch shooter from the summary written in the article.
I don't know if it makes a difference in real life but I live in canada so red ftw.
Edit:::: Adding more info
On March 18 2011 04:25 Lmui wrote:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7040/full/435293a.htmlFound a little bit more of an article. Apparently it'll make a small but measurable difference across ALL categories of real life sports. The advantage that red has over any colour can't be ignored I think. Being able to associate yourself with red and have the other guy see the opposition as red could probably make a difference in aggression of players in gsl however small that difference might be.
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On March 18 2011 02:44 Lmui wrote:
I don't know if it makes a difference in real life but I live in canada so red ftw.
Red is also the color of the communist regime.
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Red is the colour for aggression and blue is the colour for depression, i see the picture now.
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uh, if theres something to this.. They should do purple and green!
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I think it's probably just a coincidence... But in Starcraft I always keep my color as green, enemies as red, and allies as yellow...it makes things a lot easier to see on the mini map because, fr some reason, a red blip just jumps out at me.
Edit: stupid phone auto correct
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Most players play as green and opponent always red(that mode you select near the minimap. I don't think your article can be verified for sc2.
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I always thought this. Red's just a better colour.
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On a related note, in world of warcraft, horde has a slight (note the word slight) winning advantage over alliance in every battleground but 1. As you might know, horde is red, alliance is blue.
just throwing it out here...
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Everything can be proven with statistics.
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Red is such a terrible color. I'd pick blue any day.
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French and Indian War anyone? Even though red lost, blue troops still proved to be superior...at least when everything was small.
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Pretty sure they made a survey that also showed that football teams wearing red jerseys had a statistically higher win-rate than other teams. Red is a magic color apparently.
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On March 18 2011 02:51 Superouman wrote:
Most players play as green and opponent always red(that mode you select near the minimap. I don't think your article can be verified for sc2.
They are playing as red and blue but when they hit that button their colors change but they are still red and blue.
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In Starcraft you can't make yourself red. You can only make your enemy red and put yourself at a disadvantage.
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By analyzing anonymous results from a publicly
available source, we found that the red team may
have an advantage over the blue team in multiplayer FPS games. We do not think that this could
simply be explained by a preference of better players for the red teams because (a) we only included results from contests involving the top players; (b)
a red winning advantage of similar magnitude was
observed in sporting contests where the red or blue
uniforms were randomly assigned;
and (c) in a recent study about how FPS players perceive the
game situations, no preference for team color was
reported.
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Basically, in Unreal Tournament 2004 you get to choose Red or Blue (someone confirm this please). The author is saying this does not matter because there are similar studies which colours are randomly assigned. Other than this section I think the paper is pretty solid (the p-value for the test is <0.00001
EDIT: For something that is less sketchy, you can also try to read Hill and Barton (2005), which is published on Nature. The result is the same.
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Because of how light works red is harder to see than blue at distance. This is why military vehicles travel at night with red lights.
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On March 18 2011 02:47 Dance. wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2011 02:44 Lmui wrote:
I don't know if it makes a difference in real life but I live in canada so red ftw. Red is also the color of the communist regime.
And the republican party.
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Isn't red normally the higher seed in these games?
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On March 18 2011 02:58 prOxi.Beater wrote:
Pretty sure they made a survey that also showed that football teams wearing red jerseys had a statistically higher win-rate than other teams. Red is a magic color apparently.
has to do with color psychology. football stadiums typically have the away team's locker room painted light pink because it has a deflating effect on aggression. Similarly, the home locker rooms are usually a combination of red and black because these colors evoke aggression.
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They did the exact same study with Olympic wrestling. There was even a thread about it on Tl years ago. Red boosts testosterone.
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