Researchers at NVIDIA are addressing the difficulty of scheduling competitive group play and recreating lab environments by adopting field experiment methodology. This approach integrates experimentation directly into tournament structures, creating hybrid tournament-experiments.
- The authors discuss methodological implications of this hybrid approach.
- Two specific Rocket League tournament-experiments were conducted to demonstrate the concept.
- The work falls under the domains of esports, video games, and human-computer interaction.
This methodology aims to overcome the challenges of conducting rigorous experiments within real-world competitive gaming environments.