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dreds of hours of game time to be very good and ready to commentateon it, but a new game may be something you can jump in onalmost right away, so if you can, pick your game carefully. It alsohelps if you have experience playing another game in the samegenre as you can generally use your experience of that game togood effect in the new one, cuttings some corners and saving yousometime.Once you have a basic grounding, though, get commentating andlearn as you go along - nothing beats actually doing it! As you goalong, you will also learn more depth and start to put some ‘meaton the bones’. There are also some techniques available to you toaid preparation, but not replace it. I will usually have a large binderon my desk while commentating which contains all the informationI have collected on a player, but in a very short format and easy tonavigate, also including a photograph so if the player pops up onscreen I can easily identify them. I also use my laptop to display mystats, which is usually something I put together on a spreadsheet27