I just wondered if this is just my lack of knowledge or if it's a completely recent concept, but in all the time I've camped I've never seen guy lines that wrap around tent poles. I tried putting up my Robens Elk River 1 in the garden when first I got it and just assumed that all the guy lines went straight to the ground (thus, it didn't even occur to me to check the de/instructions - after all 'how many ways are there of setting guy-lines?' thought I). Since then as I've looked for product reviews for it esp. being put up (of which there are precious few online), however, I have found a number of photos which suggest that when the tent is put up at least a couple of the guy ropes appear to require wrapping around the external tent poles, i.e. second picture on this site: https://www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/robens-elk-river-1-tent-56547-p.asp
I just wondered if this is something standard on modern/all tents that I've just never caught up with or if this is just something to with this this little tent. Can you see any advantage/disadvantages to guy ropes that wrap around poles. I guess now I've spotted it appears to be necessary for this tent I can do it, but it just seemed a rather odd thing to do, unless you tell me otherwise