Red Advantage ?

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by StevenB

I haven't played UT, but I'm guessing that if you're the red team, you'll be shooting at blue opponents. Perhaps it's completely a psychological thing (as the article suggests) and has nothing to do with vision.


My thought exactly! My first thought was that some of the eliminations tended to be blowouts with exponentially high scores for the red alliance. But the stats for the qualifiers seems to eliminate that theory. Weird.

I just had a thought. What about the Algorithm of Doom?

IIRC correctly it broke teams into 3 tiers, and selected one from each, selecting similar ones each time because it wanted even spacing, right? It seems like that could be a source of this discrepency, but I don't remember the Algorithm of Doom taking color into account...

Hmmm... I can't do any of this fancy statistics stuff, but perhaps someone else can. At the BAE GSR in 2007, 1276 played on the blue and red alliance an equal number of times (4 and 4) while 1519 played 6 on blue and only 2 on red. 133 played on red 7 times, and blue on 2. 126 was also 6 and 3. I'd be interested to see how this played out across a larger data set, and also to see how much times team spend on either side of the field in every year. Hmmm...