Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Red Team Wins!
Turns out that which team you end up on MAY determine whether you win or lose.
It's better to be on the red team than on the blue team in an online multiplayer shooting game, according to researchers.
The scientists studied the outcomes of 1,347 matchups between elite teams playing "Unreal Tournament 2004," a so-called first-person shooter game. The main activity in the game is running around and shooting at the avatars of the opposing team.
As is the case with most team-based online shooting games, players of Unreal Tournament can choose to be on either the red team or the blue team, and their avatars wear those colors. But that choice is not as neutral as it seems: 55 percent of the time, the red team won, according to the study published this week in the journal Cyberpsychology & Behavior.
The article goes on to say that there have been other studies that cite real life examples of teams wearing red have a better chance of winning. Do I think that the teams color has any bearing? No, of course not. Better team wins. plus 5% is not that significant of a number in my opinion. Still, entertaining, is it not?
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