Hello and welcome to the 2017 Advent Calendar Challenge!
(This is the last year before I overhaul this page, honest!)
The Advent Calendar Challenge is a fun yearly competition, where players are invited to guess what the pictures behind the windows on my advent calendar will be each day. Points are awarded (from 1 point on December 1st all the way up to 24 on Christmas Eve) for correctly guessing the picture, and the winner is simply the person who gets the most points over the course of the competition. Simple. Easy. Fun. If you're still a bit in the dark about things, have a look at the 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 competitions to see what went on.
If you played last year you should get a PIN in your inbox automatically, and you can get started by submitting your guess in the form below! If you didn't play last year and want to play, apply for a PIN via the registration page. Once you have received your PIN, use the form below to submit your guess. You can change your guess as often as you like. The guess registered at the time of a window being opened is assessed for points on each day, and please note there is no need to sumbit a new guess every day as your guess remains in place until you change it or until it comes up, however long that may be! Your guess need not be unique. The eventual winner might win a top secret prize...
Two important points about choosing your guess:
- you HAVE to re-submit a guess after you score points, as scoring players have their guess wiped clean. You may, of course, re-set the same guess if you wish. This is to deter players from trying to set a lucky one-off guess and win despite never visiting the website again!
- guesses must be chosen from a list - this list contains all items that occur in the calendar (however many times they occur, they are listed only once), and only those items. Please note that this year only 21 unique items appear over the 24 days; I'll leave you to work out what this means!
Good Luck!
| CURRENT STANDINGS | ||||||||
| 1 | Andrew Chilcraft |  |
110 pts | 7 | PB | |||
| ⇑1 | 2 | Al Brown |  |
101 pts | 5 | PB | ||
| ⇓1 | 3 | Nigel White |  |
98 pts | 6 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 4 | Mark Coughlan |  |
93 pts | 5 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 5 | Neil Blake | |
89 pts | 5 | PB 93 |
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| ⇑1 | 6 | Simon Rutter |  |
88 pts | 5 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 7 | Samantha Myers |  |
85 pts | 4 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | = | Lorna Blake |  |
85 pts | 4 | PB 104 |
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| ⇑1 | 9 | Jenny McGinn | |
83 pts | 5 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 10 | Tom White |  |
82 pts | 4 | PB | ||
| ⇑2 | 11 | Matthew Frost | |
79 pts | 4 | PB 120 |
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| ⇑2 | 12 | Steph Foulkes | |
77 pts | 5 | PB 103 |
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| ⇓9 | 13 | Christina Dale | |
76 pts | 5 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 14 | Ross Turnbull |  |
72 pts | 4 | PB 78 |
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| ⇑2 | 15 | Håkan Wolgé | |
69 pts | 4 | PB 88 |
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| ⇑2 | 16 | Joseph Palmer |  |
67 pts | 3 | PB 71 |
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| ⇑2 | = | Chris Green | |
67 pts | 3 | PB | ||
| ⇑3 | 18 | Peter Smyth | |
66 pts | 3 | PB 79 |
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| ⇓7 | 19 | Ben Procter |  |
56 pts | 4 | PB 115 |
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| ⇓4 | 20 | Andrew Dale | |
46 pts | 4 | PB 54 |
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| ⇓3 | 21 | Sebastian Maudling | |
43 pts | 2 | PB 89 |
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| ⇓1 | 22 | Antony Brown | |
42 pts | 2 | PB 121 |
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| 23 | Emma Tuckey | |
41 pts | 3 | R | |||
| 24 | Michelle Mckay | |
40 pts | 4 | PB 108 |
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| ⇑14 | 25 | David Wilford | |
40 pts | 3 | PB | ||
| ⇓1 | 26 | Sean White | |
40 pts | 3 | PB 91 |
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| ⇑14 | 27 | Rich Davis | |
36 pts | 2 | R | ||
| ⇓2 | 28 | Dave Byrd | |
34 pts | 2 | PB 51 |
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| ⇓2 | = | Lorraine Craggs | |
34 pts | 2 | PB 39 |
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| ⇓2 | 30 | Hugo Yap | |
32 pts | 2 | PB | ||
| ⇓2 | 31 | Jade Baines |  |
32 pts | 2 | PB 58 |
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| ⇓2 | 32 | Andy Nicholls | |
31 pts | 2 | PB 45 |
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| ⇓2 | 33 | Veronica White | |
26 pts | 2 | PB 71 |
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| ⇑13 | 34 | Mike Krotosky | |
25 pts | 2 | PB 51 |
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| ⇓3 | 35 | William Keppel | |
23 pts | 1 | PB 69 |
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| ⇓3 | = | Rosie Wallbank | |
23 pts | 1 | R | ||
| ⇓3 | 37 | Gagandeep Singh Bharij | |
22 pts | 1 | PB 57 |
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| ⇓3 | = | Iain MacNaughton | |
22 pts | 1 | PB | ||
| ⇓3 | = | Lisa Seixas | |
22 pts | 1 | PB 58 |
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| ⇓3 | 40 | Simon Gosney | |
20 pts | 1 | R | ||
| ⇓3 | 41 | Simon Attwood | |
19 pts | 1 | PB 66 |
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| ⇓2 | 42 | Matt Nunn | |
14 pts | 1 | PB 69 |
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| ⇓1 | 43 | Wendy Scrivin | |
11 pts | 1 | PB 59 |
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| ⇓1 | = | Lord Byron VII | |
11 pts | 1 | PB 57 |
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| ⇓1 | = | Chris Davey | |
11 pts | 1 | PB 80 |
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| ⇓1 | 46 | Kevin Brown | |
6 pts | 1 | PB 69 |
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| ⇓1 | 47 | Damian Cook | |
3 pts | 1 | PB 85 |
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| SCORE | ||||||||
This year's teams' championship will be the same again - I'm interested in finding out which astrological star-sign is the best, so I'll be trying to coax your date of birth out of you shortly! Current standings:
| TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS | |||||||
| 1 | |
Aries | ×5 | 330 pts | |||
| 2 | |
Pisces | ×5 | 287 pts | |||
| 3 | |
Leo | ×6 | 284 pts | |||
| 4 | |
Gemini | ×5 | 267 pts | |||
| 5 | |
Taurus | ×5 | 222 pts | |||
| 6 | |
Cancer | ×7 | 215 pts | |||
| 7 | |
Scorpio | ×3 | 199 pts | |||
| 8 | |
Libra | ×5 | 168 pts | |||
| 9 | |
Capricorn | ×2 | 110 pts | |||
| 10 | |
Aquarius | ×2 | 93 pts | |||
| 11 | |
Sagittarius | ×1 | 85 pts | |||
| 12 | |
Virgo | ×1 | 32 pts | |||
| SCORE | |||||||
LATEST COMPETITION UPDATES: 
Items uncovered so far:
| 1 | Christmas Tree |
2 | Wreath | 3 | Toy Train | 4 | Reindeer | 5 | Snowman | 6 | Gift | ||
| 7 | Santa Hat | 8 | Star | 9 | Ice Skate | 10 | Santa | 11 | Stocking | 12 | Candle | ||
| 13 | Trumpet | 14 | Teddy | 15 | Drum | 16 | Cupcake | 17 | Reindeer | 18 | Stocking | ||
| 19 | Squirrel | 20 | Bell | 21 | Snowman | 22 | Angel | 23 | Cottage | 24 | Sack | ||
Decisions
All decisions (disciplinary etc.), other than those to award points, are detailed publically. Please visit our decisions repository.
Random Stats
| Number of players: | 47 | |
| Number of players who can/cannot still win: | 1 / 46 | |
| Number of players who have been invited but are yet to play: | 4 | e.g. Alfie Cochrane. Why, Alfie, why? :-( |
| Number of points remaining: | 0 |
And to end off this mammoth page, a few subnotes. Have a look at the all-time stats page. Not many stats mind you, just a constantly updating all-time performance table. Clicking a player name in either the current standings or the stats table gives you a player profile page, showing their past performances in the ACC and a little picture just cos. And finally the rules in full. Subject to change of course...