> I'm surprised we haven't seen discord server integration into matchmaking. This is a thing. I have personally written integrations for Discord, IRC, and web

> I'm surprised we haven't seen discord server integration into matchmaking. This is a thing. I have personally written integrations for Discord, IRC, and web apps to manage private competitive (and casual) games for communities from various FPS and RTS video games. Sessions organised this way are known as pickup games, or "PUGs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-up_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-up_game)