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Researchers have recently found that in one-on-one sports, like wrestling, the competitors with red suits win more often. Robert Barton and Russel Hill studied boxing, tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. The contestants wore either red or blue, and those who wore red won more fights. What is more interesting, is that this actually applies to online first person shooters as well.
Danish scientists have studied 1 347 matches in Unreal Tournament 2004 where players are on either red or blue team. Guess what? The red team wins more often. The truth is that the red team won 55 percent of the matches. Mihai Moldovan of the University of Copenhagen believes that the reason is that red acts as a psychological distractor for men.
While this is really an interesting analysis, the notion of red team versus blue team has been ingrained in the Unreal Tournament series for years. We don’t anticipate any immediate changes to team colors.
Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games
Apparently red players have an advantage in most activities. This did surprise me, I wouldn’t have guessed that the worn colors could matter. Isn’t the human mind fascinating?