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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:00PM Peter Moore said

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Goddamnit, Blue Team. Get it together!
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:01PM Vcize said

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Hmmmm, so if we always play on the Blue team we can blame it on our shirt color when we lose?

That provides a nice alternative to blaming it on lag to throw into the arsenal of reasons the loss was not your fault.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:01PM caffeine said

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If they had studied 10 less games, I would find this more convincing
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Posted: Jun 13th 2008 10:23AM (Unverified) said

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Ha. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2008 10:54AM caffeine said

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I am in a constant state of back patage
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:02PM Neebs said

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This is not untrue. Even in Team Fortress 2 blue seems to have a disadvantage.

http://www.steampowered.com/status/tf2/tf2_stats.php
(You'll need to scroll some distance to find it)
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:36PM SirDigby337 said

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True i noticed that aswell
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:28PM busydoinnothin said

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But in Team Fortress 2, you have the Red team defending and the Blue team attacking. In my opinion, it takes a more skilled and organized blue team to win than it takes a skilled and organized red team to win; in other words, red can usually get by with little organization, whereas it takes a well organized and well concentrated attack for the blue team to win.

But sometimes, the team just sucks ass and loses on either side. See also: my games last night :\
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:49PM Neebs said

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Even if the team doing the attack/defend thing was correct (It isn't! You switch between games), it still doesn't say anything about 2fort.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 6:16PM mrmobius said

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Same reason that in UK 8 ball pool, it is better to get playing the red balls. Colour psychology can have a big difference on people.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 10:25PM EJ A said

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I don't want to be dead. I want to be alive... or, a cowboy.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2008 3:21AM Catprog said

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(It isn't! You switch between games)

But don't you switch colours also.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2008 6:32AM Neebs said

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No.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:02PM finnith said

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These scientists are noobs. Everyone knows that Blue TEam is much better, RvB proved that.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:11PM (Unverified) said

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On RVB the red team killed the blue team way more then the red team was killed by the blue team, or at least the red team watched them die anyways, ergo red team= better.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:02PM Ballistic3188 said

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red for life!

oh and those who chose pokemon blue instead of pokemon red. In your face! charizard > blastoise
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:04PM FernandoRocker said

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lol

=p
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 6:18PM mrmobius said

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My hydropump could KO you in 1 hit. Amateur. Blastoise > Charizard > Venosaur
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:04PM (Unverified) said

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Meanwhile, there is still no cure for cancer.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:05PM FernandoRocker said

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Another lol

=p
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:44PM (Unverified) said

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All I have to say to that is, if you want the people who did this study to be in charge of finding a cure for cancer you are going to be sorely dissapointed when they come back to you and hand over a study that proclaims that out of 12,417 cancer patients, 55% did not die during the study, therefore time is the cure for cancer. Thanks for the millions is research grants.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:54PM jhowlett said

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i had my ps3 working on the cure this weekend
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:07PM (Unverified) said

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"t was found that wearing red in real-life one-on-one sporting events increased the likelihood of victory"
lol somebody should tell that to the arizona cardinals
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:14PM Vidikron said

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That's not a one-on-one sport.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 6:40PM Vcize said

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"that's not a one on one sport"

Unless you're arguing about who the best quarterback of all-time is, because then all that most people care about is which one won the most Super Bowls....by himself.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:09PM MinorHavoc said

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Well color me surprised. I always thought the red team usually stood out better from the background and easier to spot. The blue team tended to blend into the shadows in most of the maps.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:49PM (Unverified) said

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Thats exactly what I was thinking. Red sticks out more so I figured they'd get shot more.

Does this mean Ken>Ryu? I know Ryu isn't blue but still.

Mario>Sonic?

Periods>Blue Balls?
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 8:43PM (Unverified) said

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In NTSC standard definition TV sets, highly saturated reds actually bleed more and thus the red guys are gonna be blurrier at a distance. This is kinda moot when you're talking about monitors or component inputs or HDTV (and certainly moot outside of consoles), but it does apply somewhat to SD video.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:19PM (Unverified) said

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Ain't that the damndest thing, I checked my Halo 3 stats from yesterday, 7/8 games I played, the Red team won.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:18PM (Unverified) said

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I have to play Red because I'm red-green color blind. The blue stands out. Given that 7-10% of the male population is colorblind, this may be a unresearched factor.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:50PM (Unverified) said

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Thats actually an interesting theory. I wonder if they took that sort of data into account. Based solely on the random # of games they used I'm going to have to say no. Still great point though
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:21PM M4L said

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BS study. The case number would have to be significantly bigger for it to hold meaning. I am sure the bigger the number, the closer the percentage would be in the middle. I wonder if they took into account other factor?
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:21PM Seroth said

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I always prefer being on the blue team...I also lose often.

Of course! It makes perfect sense now!
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:26PM jas0nuk said

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...this doesn't prove shit! 55% is only 5% more than a completely equal number of victories for both teams.
In the same way, if you flip a coin 1000 times, you aren't guaranteed to get 500 heads and 500 tails.
Stupid useless research -_-.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2008 3:41AM Catprog said

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According to my calculations

1000 coin flips

more then 530 heads(53% heads) : 3% chance
more then 540 heads(54% heads) : 1% chance
more then 545 heads(54.5% heads) : >1% chance

So this is significant
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:29PM (Unverified) said

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Better dead than Red!
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:04PM (Unverified) said

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Clearly this is why Republicans dominate US and communism rules the world...
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:08PM SheppyReturns said

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I typically blame Nazi Gold for that... but that's because I get to say Nazi and imply evil things upon the ruling power structure...
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 9:17PM PoisonedAl said

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If you want to imply evil, just say "Dick Cheney"
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:49PM (Unverified) said

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The story focused on Unreal Tournament and you use a Halo pic. You guys make me sick.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:59PM SheppyReturns said

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I'm sure it was an experiment of their own. They KNEW using a Halo pic would not be related in any fashion and so would drag out the "I h8 H470Z" fucktards so they could line up all the idiots and kill em all without having to change a clip...

Or it could be the term Red vs. Blue has much more attachment to Halo than any other series thanks to the uber popular Rooster Teeth machinima series.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:42PM Levi Partridge said

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Probably because they have a hard on for Red vs. Blue. I was going to ask the same thing. Why is there a Halo pic when the researcher used Unreal for the study? FAIL!

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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:35PM (Unverified) said

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What is the statistical significance of this "55%"? That number could very well be meaningless unless we see some p-values.
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Posted: Jun 13th 2008 3:45AM Catprog said

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According to my calculations

1000 coin flips (50% chance of heads/tail lose/win)

more then 530 heads(53% heads) : 3% chance
more then 540 heads(54% heads) : 1% chance
more then 545 heads(54.5% heads) : >1% chance

So this is significant
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:36PM (Unverified) said

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Bluetard!
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:17PM commyzthatdont said

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While I like Blue team better, it seems that, in Halo 3, the better players get put on Red team.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:41PM Centaur said

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1,347. Are you serious?! That was the sample size?!

Try more like 10,000 and then I might be a little more convinced.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 4:50PM (Unverified) said

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That was the entire population of people that still play Unreal Tournament :x

On a more serious note, 5% is still significant, it may not be as accurate as say, 10,000 individuals but it still shows an obvious lean towards one side.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:33PM Lone Starr said

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I think they had ten too many.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:49PM Neebs said

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1000 is actually a good sample size.
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