Team Balance

Exactly the same here, just replace "red" by "blue". Depends on the area, only a few dedicated and sometimes one single player can tip the balance.

Red is most common around here, followed by my team Blue.

Blue Dominates Here.

Seems Yellow is the least likely team to dominate.

An idea I posted weeks ago here to fix this was
1) Allow Team Changes on say a 3 Month Timer
2) Rank Teams when you collect based on # of Gyms each team holds in a Region (dont tell player region boundries)
3) Give the 2nd place team 50% More Dust (not coins)
4) Give the 3rd place team 100% More Dust on Collect

If you gave greater rewards to the teams behind. You would empower them + you would tempt some hardcore players to switch teams for extra rewards

Both would self-regulate

Check out gymhuntr.com might be of some help finding local gyms of your team as well as answer your team distribution questions.

People attack rival gyms because prestiging, for some people is harder than attacking a rival team since to get 1000 prestige (what you get for attacking a rival gym), you HAVE to use half CP mons which takes longer, harder, more potions/revives, etc....

This is why they drive out just to tear down a rival gym since it's easier and more time efficient (unless the rival gym is also level 10) to get their 10 coins...

This is probably the only skill in the game and separates the better players than weaker players.

I prestige level 7+ gyms all the time if I can put something down since it's not too slow for me and other than erroring out like 2 or 3 times, it's not too bad...The crashes suck though since it's like at least 2 or 3 crashes if I try to get 8k which is really annoying.

In my city Blue dominates, the toughest gyms are always blue here and stays for weeks.

I generally prefer prestiging existing gyms - when you take over a gym there's always the risk that your 2500 Snorlax is going to be sitting on top of two 300cp Ratattas left by selfish idiots.

Blue and red are pretty even here. Blue used to dominate more than they do now. Yellow is non-existant.

blue used to dominate in my city with yellow almost a non existent team. Red are consistently present but not dominating. However recently yellow have surged into relevance. I am convinced theyve organised in some way as they are completely dominating the east area of the city.

My area is all yellow spoofer, I have to go north to the next city to find the blue spoofer dominant area and south to find the red spoofer dominant area.

I wish they assigned random teams once a month. Every month on the first all gyms are brought to 0. Any player that enters a gym will be randomly be assigned to a team for the next 30 days or after every other migration. I think this would mix up the gym meta without needing a whole new "system" being created.

depends on locations but Valor & mystic usually out number Instinct, but in my area instinct have the highest CP pokemon.

The whole switching teams thing just seems wrong to me and makes things worst for most players (familes/friends, etc...) than solve any real issue...

I hear some Instinct people group up and are able to take any area due to sheer hard core playing/dedication and most of the blue/red just don't need to coordinate as much due to sheer numbers.

Ultimately, the main problem is dominant areas and lack of rewards for attacking lvl 10 gyms, but there are more important things to fix I believe than letting people rechoose teams.

This is all based on location, for instance many people constantly say the blue team have too many gyms but in my area its all read and I have to travel out of my area just to get to a friendly gym or I know what ever rival gym I take over will be back to red within hours.

Being Instinct gets frustrating sometimes where I live.

Overall I don't mind being the underdog but I see blue gyms stacked with Snorlax and high-CP Rhydon and Gyarados that stick around for a day or two (that's a long time around here) and the second a yellow gym gets any momentum going, people are putting 1200CP Jynx and Jolteon in it and it disappears within an hour or two. I'm not talking new players, these are level 25-30 players. I'm all in favour of variety of mons in a gym but surely we can do better than that :-) It does make me want to switch teams sometimes but it also kinda makes it more rewarding in a way when we do get a gym going.

There's one Instinct guy with a few absolute mega-mons who I seem to end up co-defending gyms with a lot. GenCario if you're on here, I salute you sir!

Edit to add - the main road out of the city to where I work is absolutely dominated by Instinct - the only such area I have ever seen. There are often 3 or 4 yellow gyms stacked high. It's refreshing to see :-)