Well I had the GIAC equivalent of stage 2+ (which GIAC call stage 2 just to add a little confusion!) on the car today and I'm very happy with the results. GIAC have been developing this map on their own in-house Golf R which has almost identical modifications to it as my R.
After a few conversations with Thomas@ GIAC they agreed to let me have this map on the car before general release to get some VCDS logs off of it. I will be doing logs this on Friday.
The car feels stronger than I've had it before and an early performance test hasl been very positive.
I will most likely keep this specific map on over the winter, before looking at the GIAC Loba map next year. It is a pity that Santa Pod has closed for the winter as I would have loved to have done some official times as I KNOW they will be faster than the 12.615@108 I did earlier this year.