The model I chose to organize my ideas for my discourse community is a speech.  I think this genre will help me make my argument because I took a class on giving speeches and I know that you can use them to inform and persuade your audience.  You can do this by also putting visual aids to go with your speech that will further help your audience understand what you are talking about.

My main point is to inform my audience about one of the biggest discourse communities in gaming skill- based matchmaking and its hardships on gamers.  I will make my argument by bringing up the topic and giving some good explanations to back it up.  Then I will use some visual representations of rankings in game and how skill based matchmaking works.  For example there is a game that I play called 3 on 3 freestyle.  It’s a basketball game that is ranked every few months.  You compete against others around the ranking bracket as you for top 60 in North america.  I myself have held this title 9 times and can speak from experience on how skill based matchmaking can be hard on certain people.  Sometimes there rankings in between really high ranks so someone may be too good for the bracket there in but not so good in the bracket right above them so they end up losing and end up back in the bracket they were in before. This can become really frustrating to a player because imagine having to tell yourself i’m good but not good enough to be one of the best.  Then every time they have a good match the game puts them up against pros who literally get paid to play the game unlike the person who just plays on their free time whenever they’re not busy with school.