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Message Setters Comments (inexperienced setters may find this useful) My aim was to maximise the navigation and required by giving multiple route choices and avoid a "runners course" where there was one obvious high scoring route. The general layout of the area helped with this but I spent considerable time choosing control locations in order to maximise options. It seems this was achieved as competitors routes seems quite varied. I also tried to provide "micro" route choices between adjacent controls. You will note a lot of the controls are on, or close to, junctions giving more than one route between adjacent controls. In many cases there was not a great difference in the time for each option but competitors still need to make a decision on wich way to go. I also placed controls to utilise some of the more "complex" parts of the map (eg. 1M-2K-2L-1N and 3C-2J-1J) and to reward careful scrutiny of the map (eg. 2B, 3B, 2D& 2E look close at a glance but are quite spread via the gound). I placed some of the 3 pointers so that the slower runners would still get to some of them and also to draw the fast runners to cover more ground. Russells remapping of this area in 2006 helped immensely when placing controls in the exact location on the map as it includes the underlying cadastral map (this shows the boundaries of every individual property so locating an exact house is easy). Setting good clues is always challenging and requires a lot of lateral thinking, checking for possible obvious things that could be mistaken for the right clue and a careful choice of the multiple choice options to avoid confusion. I managed to find something usable fairly close to the each planned control location. How "interesting" the clue is was never a consideration (one year I will set a course with every clue a power pole number!). I did one last check of every site (by car and on foot) on the Sunday immediately before the event after returning from the World Masters and discovered two of clues had recently changed/disappeared. One was the ad in the bus shelter (2F) which had been replaced with a new ad and 2J was originally a builders sign on an adjacent house which was removed in the week before even though the builder was still working. It pays to check and check again

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