1. Title of the Dataset: Best-of-three Contest 2. Date of Deposit: 21/01/2021 3. Principal Investigator: Dr Zahra Murad 4. Project: NA 5. Funding: Funded by Leverhulme Trust (Grant RL-2012-681) 6. Data Collected from 6/10/2015-1/12/2020 at the University of Surrey, UK and the Nanjing Audit University, China 7. Open Access Sharing - CC BY 4.0 8. Any Restrictions: NA 9. Request for Access: NA 10: Information on outputs: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Publication titled "Fighting Alone versus Fighting for a Team: An Experiment on Multiple Pairwise Contests" Data OverView: 11. Data File: Bo3.dta Stata file containing the data, Bo3.do Stata do file that conducts the analysis 12. The .dta file contains the raw data, and the .do cleans the data and conducts the analysis. 13. Variables (most labelled in the do file): session - which session the subject participated in treatment - which treatment the subject participated in period - period group - which 6 person group the subject was in. team - which team the subject was in within a 6-person group subject- the subject identifier type - 1:first mover; 2:second mover; 3:third mover catches - the number of catches clicks - the number of clicks othercatches - the opponent's number of catches profit - amount earned (without showup fee) winner - win in own battle lead - lead after the first battle experience - No. of active periods part1_clicks - the average number of clicks in part1 part1_catches - the average number of catches in part1 14. Methodology is laid out in the .do file 15. Data collection was ethically approved by University of Surrey Ethics Committee 16. For more info please refer to the paper titled "Fighting Alone versus Fighting for a Team: An Experiment on Multiple Pairwise Contests"