FB-2 (spring 2010)

The blue color gives a very big advantage. IMHO.

That's a very debatable statement... on Small Map, red is definitely better, as it usually gets more resources and the respawn points are, on average, better.

On Balanced Map, red also often gets the entire road network.

On Panic Map, I don't know, I haven't tested it.

On Mini-Nostalgia, the resource distribution is symmetrical, so blue is better because of the restart advantage.

On 8mm6a, it's generally not that important, blue gets decent resources, so I might choose it too.