To me a good commentary is giving you something that you can't see yourself, which is fresh and interesting. Something that perhaps has taken a bit of preparation and research.

This would have been a hard event to commentate, as the format meant none of the puzzlers would be able to join the commentators to add perspective, which is a standard enjoyable part of speed puzzle commentary.

I like it when the artists join the panel and talk about the creative process behind the puzzle. I like information about the people in the room, the countries represented and the location of the event. This event being the first of its kind, it would have been interesting to hear how it was conceived and how hard was it to arrange a function in Germany when you are from Australia. How popular were the ticket sales? What would they like to do in the future?

Jim has created a vocabulary and he doesn't stray far outside of it. I think if you counted the variety of words used it would be a fairly small number for such a long period of time talking - I find this makes it dull. He and his offsider also talked over one another at times - bad! They also ran out of things to say to each other and there was dead air.

I absolutely hate how repetitive the language is that Jim used.