In a recent article on Yahoo! Games, they mention a study that found that competitive arenas like sports and video games that split teams by color, like Halo 3, have an interesting effect.
"Published in the Cyberpsychology & Behavior journal, the study tracked nearly 1500 matches in the popular first-person game, Unreal Tournament 2004. Like most online first-person shooters -- including industry-leader Halo 3 -- the game splits players into two opposing teams, one red, one blue. There are no functional differences between the two other than hue, leading most to assume that neither team would have any sort of unfair advantage over the other.
Not so fast. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark found that the red team won 55% of the matches.
Rather than chalking that up to dumb luck, the scientists behind the study believe it has more to do with the inherent qualities of red as a psychological distractor and a natural signal of male dominance, a thought echoed in a 2005 study linking the color to enhanced performance in real-life sports." Yahoo! Games.
What do you think? Do you think that being red gives you an advantage? Granted the curve is only 5%, but its interesting none the least.
Wow that is a bunch of horse shit if I ever heard it!!!
Let's use college sports to see if that statement holds any truth. Three of the best teams in college sports are Duke, UNC, and Kansas. The school colors for all three schools are BLUE !!!
NC State sucks at college sports. The school's colors are red.
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Wow that is a bunch of horse shit if I ever heard it!!!
Let's use college sports to see if that statement holds any truth. Three of the best teams in college sports are Duke, UNC, and Kansas. The school colors for all three schools are BLUE !!!
NC State sucks at college sports. The school's colors are red.
All the color red does is increase speeding tickets.
All I know is when I play as the BlueTeam in TF2, we always run down the opposition but that could have to do with quality of teams...hmmmm.
well in the premier league, red teams win like 70% of the time
i seriously don't even notice the color i am in halo except maybe noticing it on the other team. i don't see how it can really affect my playing.
Unless they kept the same teams but switched colors, I call bullshit.
If they did, I call lucky bullshit.
LIES, ALL LIES