User blog comment:EvilMummy/What Makes a Top Island?/@comment-5832451-20130322040025/@comment-7326455-20130322041042

Symmetry is good, but as a player in a brass band, I'm also quite used to horseshoe arrangements with melody instruments at one end and bass instruments at the other. =)

Not that I'm going to be entering any island design competitions any time soon. =P