First some competitor comments on why they have given up the Championship chase:

I would like to say that it's a bit hard but I fear the truth is that I have got TT fatigue. Perhaps next year 10-12 rounds rather than 20 would be easier on competitor, organiser and map! (mine's starting to look a bit frilly round the folds). Catherine Doherty

Primarily time - the decryption one took a lot of evenings, and the later ones didn't get much better even when I worked them out. When I went on holiday (the herringbones one), not doing it was quite relieving - I felt free again! The other thing is it doesn't really suit my temperament. I like doing the puzzle bits of it, i.e. working out the clue, but I find the tricky bits of nav (e.g. through Axminster) tedious. (insufficient patience, hence the errors in the last two I submitted, and the low scores get discouraging). I think hard clues and easy nav is what I would want. I'm still wondering whether to have a go at a postal one - were I not due to be moving house/job I would consider it more. Sorry this sounds so negative - I did enjoy the first few, so thanks for them.  Clive George

I'm away from Uni. at the moment, and have been rather busy at work, and haven't got round to it yet (read forgot to!). I was in Cambridge today, so stopped off to check my e-mail, so may hopefully get round to doing one soon - assuming I can actually do one - the last two/three I saw were absolute pigs that I couldn't!!  Steve Brumpton

Just back from 3 weeks holiday which has interfered with 4 sections! Horrendous In-Tray probably means pressure continues for a while -- and in any case I was finding the  sections before I went away were getting rather difficult for 'a bear of very little brain' - not like these clever birds  like owls & crows!! That said, I should like to be counted in with the firm supporters of the   Summer Internet TT - I think it's an excellent idea and I shall download
the missed section in the hope that I'll get round to studying them one day!  Best wishes - I hope there will be more Internet TTs in the future. PS  I preferred the Saturday Section starting day, but whatever day is chosen will have its pro's and con's.   Peter George

Still playing.  I only switched my PC on 30 mins ago - having found which box it was packed in (I've moved house two weeks ago and I'm still living out of boxes). Found my map and other bits tho', so if I can crack it, I might even try to answer RC14.  Steve Turnbull


And now comments about RC14:

Hopefully this card should attract a few more answers! My route fits quite well apart from a missing SO instruction between codes '6' (RT YYY) and '7' (TL YYW). [Sorry, my error that one.] Also my rather antique pocket reference (circa 81) has a ':' between '9' and ';'. [see solution] [First to answer, 10/10]  Dave Bell

To get this route card to work, I have assumed that there is a white goer in GS 4917 missing between 6 and 7. What happened to the :? Nice to have an easy route card for a change. [10/10] Ted Manktelow

This is more like it - I could get my teeth into this. Though it was a bit laborious getting between route card, ASCII table, map and my list of TR, R at T etc. As a matter of interest what happened to the colon, searched all over and never found it, but it didn't seem to affect the route.  [10/10]  Don Clarke

Nice one! Had me confused for a while. Then almost got it but thought you were indicating missed junctions as well... Got really stumped by the 'crossroads' at 468159! Sneaky stuff - NOT ambiguous....I counted 16 white roads including the 2 really small ones round the triangles in 4614 and 4714, just in case, here are all my whites: 1) 4817, 2) 4917, 3) 4917, 4) 4917, 5) 4717, 6) 4717, 7) 4615, 8) 4614, 9) 4714, 10) 4413, 11) 4312, 12) 4312, 13) 4413, 14) 4214, 15) 4315, 16) 4415. Keep up the good work! I'm on holiday from next Friday, but I'll do my best to phone in some answers via Clive (who has given up due to lack of time). [10/10] Jeremy Rodgers

My answers assume you are including white/white road changes as joining a white road. If you are only counting joins as being colour changes to a white then the answers are....[I wanted the latter. As always if you think your interpretation may be different from mine, quote your reasons - you will usually get the benefit of doubt. 10/10]  Bridget Lewis

Afraid this is a complete guess. I kind of had ideas for the clues (maybe 'join the dots' taking the symbols in their code order, giving what - directions from junctions?) but just couldn't do it. Will be interesting to see what the solution really is, no doubt it's quite simple. The only things that I spotted were that 58 was missing ( colon :) - don't know if that was a significant clue as well? Time will tell tomorrow. That's why you're only getting this now - I have to wait till the last minute in case I get any further inspiration, but it hasn't happened. I hope you do carry on with the clues - it's hard going trying to solve them, but that doesn't mean we've stopped trying. Maybe you need to include the finish control position in the clues to allow people a better chance of guessing a route and getting some points that way. It's disheartening when you can't spot the trick and don't even have a chance of guessing a likely route. Just like a rally with cars!  Ian Buxton

Sorry for not attempting the last RC - it looked like a good idea.Hopefully I'll have a bit more free time this week.  Mark Fearon

Just to let you know that I tried to do RC14, and worked out that the clues were in ASCII sequence, but then couldn't work out how to apply that to the junctions. Tried it as tulips, but nothing seemed to fit. Upon reading the results this morning, it seems that I was mistakenly trying to make the shapes fit, rather than just using the topology. Not sure of the connection between ANSI and ASCII either [Perhaps if I'd ASCII'd the right questions I would have got the right ANSIs!], but at least I was on the right lines here. Will have to try to get it to fit now I know the solution. I do think that you've made it a bit difficult, since although you're going to get a leader, you seem to have done it at the cost of losing most of the field. Maybe you should increase the number of rounds that count like you have suggested, and make the cards easier. Even if you do end up with some people tying, at least more people will be taking part and enjoying it. It's the taking part that matters, not the winning!  Matthew Atkinson

Very nostalgic - even unearthed our game again as a result! We're more into trains at present!  Carol Moulton