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 # Towards Field Experiments in Esports Competition

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 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.

 ## Authors

Arjun Madhusudan (North Carolina State University)

[Josef Spjut](/person/josef-spjut)

[Ben Boudaoud](/person/ben-boudaoud)

[Joohwan Kim](/person/joohwan-kim)

Benjamin Watson (North Carolina State University)

 ## Publication Date

Sunday, July 19, 2026

 ## Published in

[SIGGRAPH Technical Workshop Sketch](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3799828.3816005)

 ## Research Area

[Esports](/research-area/esports)

[Human Computer Interaction](/research-area/human-computer-interaction)

 ## External Links

[ACM Digital Library](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3799828.3816005)