I used to do a fair bit of mix.nahl's about a year ago. The pugs weren't terrible when they started and it was generally good practice.

My main issue with hl pugs, at least from my experience in mix, are that people only pick their friends or who is popular. Skill wouldn't get you picked. No matter how well you've played in the pugs, if you weren't already in the "in-crowd", you have to just hope you get picked, and probably only do end up getting picked 25% of the time.

Also, idk if this happens in 6s pugs, but its annoying when people add on their joke off-classes and then get picked over all the people who added on their main for that class, play terribly, and no one cares.

When I got on a team that time last year, I realized how much infinitely better it was to pugging.

What I've been listening to in the past week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URZGTHR3tA

http://sango.bandcamp.com/album/da-rocinha-2

http://hiatusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/free-download-the-crossing-ep

http://hithome.bandcamp.com/album/happily-ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scf511auMKY&feature=kp *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSu8JrXpXIA *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSG_qqJw8h8 *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhbJpmKzYcM&feature=kp *

*The Andrew Bayer - Matt Lange goodness. It never ends.

ow my feelings

Not crazy similar, but Common's pretty cool. Take a listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuUFIBnXj4Q&feature=kp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBZVbwmqKb0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_OmxdXkdNM (dunno why some parts are censored, album version starts at about a minute on)

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Hey, seen a few of your videos from time to time and they're a nice watch, thanks for posting looking for feedback, I hope some of this helps.

1. Quality sounds fine, and personally, the content you speak about will almost always supersede the quality of the microphone.
2. The commentary was interesting, but generally I'll describe to you the two things I find most motivating to watch a live commentary. I like commentary videos where the commentator is either telling a story or talking about something they experienced, or discussing game mechanics/strategies/metas and providing their insight on a matter.
3. I guess mostly, getting better at the game will help. What makes a lot of commentaries constantly interesting is the combination of gameplay thats nice to idly watch while the commentator talks about something. Also, like stated above, I struggle being entertained by these sort of videos where the commentator doesn't have a topic/story that they'd like to discuss. Honestly, I think it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on strategical aspects of the game, weapons, etc, because you are untarnished (for the most part) by the metagames of tf2.

Best of luck!

Favorite food, man. Tasty stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzy2dgEUOhY

;=}

I like the influence of cash money in this clip. Didn't pay attention to much other things, but those dollar bilss sure were cool ;=}

beautiful

Is your dad Ray Sipe?

http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-380-Pro-Collapsible-Professional/dp/B001UE6I0G
!votebap

MATHBONUS PLAYS TF2!?!?!?!?!?!?! *faints*

Would really appreciate if you took a listen.

https://polyphonyedm.bandcamp.com/

I have SoundCloud and Facebook (/PolyphonyEDM), but there are lossless free downloads through bandcamp. Cheers!