heres my 2 cents for what its worth...prolly not much but o well...i saw tiesto @ crobar and it was totally packed. Mixing, he was fine-he basically went from one song to the next seamlessly as if he was only spinning 2 cds the whole night... i dont know how much of the crowd was too wasted to care what they heard as long as he was bangin... i think they mostly just wanted to party hard to a beat totally oblivious to any kind of technique. i think that he could have done better as far as creative mixing-especially for him. it seems to me that his studio and production skills are better than what i observed at crobar, (which is almost always true for oakenfold (chokenfold?).... one great thing about tiesto (maybe helps him in his ranking as "#1 dj") is that he has the ability to make the crowd just go insane. bananas. crazy! i mean part of being a "superstar" dj is not only knowing how to press the mixer's buttons but also the crowd's buttons and he did that so well that night especially since there were 3 video cameras constantly on him. if i only saw him from the neck up and heard no audio at all, i would have sworn he was jamming out on an electric guitar or something from his on-stage presence...so i have to say on straight mixing a 7.5/10 (compared to what he's capable of), on "showmanship" and crowd control a 9.5 & on energy a 10 (this is what the guy looked like on stage --> )