Maybe they thought that they would get away with it? Goodness knows why

There's a lot of issues here.

Firstly, the terrain, the routes etc were all fine, hampered by weather.

The lack of prep by Leg 4 runners is hard to understand. Both my Leg 4 runners went around the key part of the route at 10:15 in the morning.

Marshalls - I was on the NAV leg and didn't see one. A 6"x3"x2" dibber machine with a bit of red & white course marking tape wrapped around it is tough to find in Clag.
A marshall would have helped as at least you could have found the dibber once you had got within 50m of it.

If CFR were re-hosting on the same patch, I would just ask for some marshalling on the NAV leg and at least something to make the dibber machine stand out a little more as you approach it.

Finally - the routes were amended as the day approached, to the point where the tanoy broadcast that a CP had been located 100m North of where it was supposed to be.
I hope everyone heard the announcement!