You would think it wouldn't matter what color your team is in multiplayer shooter matches. Red team . . . Blue team . . . it's all a matter of the players and how they play, right? Well, maybe not. According to a new Associated Press story (via Google) a new study suggests playing on the red team gives players an edge.

The study, conducted at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, checked out the results of 1,347 matches in Epic Games' Unreal Tournament 2004. The result of their study showed that 55 percent of the time the red team in the matches won against the blue team. One of the scientists claims that the color red " . . . may act as a psychological distractor for men, possibly because men flush and turn red when they're angry." The article also quotes Epic Games's VP Mark Rein who states that while they find the results of the study interesting the fact is that playing red teams against blue teams " . . has been ingrained in the Unreal Tournament series for years." In other words, don't expect to see pink vs. gray matches anytime soon.