Towards Field Experiments in Esports Competition
Abstract
Esports is having a significant societal impact. Yet scheduling competitive group play during experiments is difficult, and recreating competitive environments in the lab is challenging. To address these problems, we adopt the field experiment methodology, to create hybrid tournament-experiments — experimentation integrated into the tournament itself. We run two Rocket League tournament-experiments and discuss their methodological and experimental implications.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Artificial Intelligence in Games
Digital Games and Media
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Companion Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
- Publisher
- ACM
- Pages
- 1–2
- Publication date
- 13 May 2026