Kim, GraceYao, Shengjie2019-05-302019-05-302019-04-17https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18589This paper studies the effect of intrinsic motivation on the extrinsic incentives specified by tournament structure in tournament theory in the context of e-sports. It incorporates tournament theory and motivation crowding theory in the same framework, something that past literature have hinted towards but never formally done so. It also uses an e-sports dataset, a type of dataset that few academics in the past have dealt with, but one that offers many interesting potentials. Results weakly show that crowding-in occurs in e-sports, but the effects of tournament structure on performance are inconclusive in the context of this paper. Implications of this paper lie mainly in the possibility for future academics to utilise e-sports data for research.en-USTournament TheoryMotivation Crowding TheoryIncentiveMotivatione-sportsDota 2Honors thesis