Hello and welcome to the 2020 Advent Calendar Challenge!
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 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.
And finally, please note that if you start the competition late then you will be deducted the number of points equivalent to how late you started, to encourage playing the whole game and to reward those that do.
Good Luck!
| CURRENT STANDINGS | ||||||||
| 1 | Simon Rutter |  |
146 pts | 9 | WR | |||
| 2 | Antony Brown |  |
121 pts | 7 | PB 121 |
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| 3 | Tom White |  |
121 pts | 6 | PB | |||
| 4 | Steph Coughlan |  |
111 pts | 6 | PB | |||
| 5 | Veronica White |  |
110 pts | 6 | PB | |||
| 6 | Ben Procter |  |
109 pts | 6 | PB 115 |
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| 7 | Håkan Wolgé |  |
104 pts | 5 | PB 135 |
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| 8 | Mark Coughlan | |
100 pts | 5 | PB | |||
| 9 | Aisling McCarthy |  |
95 pts | 5 | R | |||
| 10 | Chris Green |  |
92 pts | 5 | PB | |||
| 11 | Neil Blake |  |
90 pts | 6 | PB 93 |
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| 12 | Nina Dale | |
88 pts | 5 | PB | |||
| 13 | Andrew Dale | |
86 pts | 5 | PB | |||
| 14 | Samantha Scrivin |  |
85 pts | 5 | PB 85 |
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| ⇑1 | 15 | Kevin Brown | |
84 pts | 4 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 16 | Emma Tuckey | |
81 pts | 5 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 17 | Nigel White | |
77 pts | 4 | PB 98 |
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| ⇑1 | 18 | Tony Wilson | |
76 pts | 4 | R | ||
| ⇑1 | 19 | Matt Nunn | |
75 pts | 4 | PB 79 |
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| ⇑2 | 20 | Simon Gosney | |
68 pts | 4 | PB 72 |
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| ⇑2 | 21 | Joseph Palmer | |
67 pts | 4 | PB 71 |
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| ⇑3 | = | Rosie Wallbank | |
67 pts | 4 | PB | ||
| ⇑2 | 23 | Ross Turnbull | |
67 pts | 3 | PB 78 |
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| ⇑3 | 24 | Ed Coughlan | |
65 pts | 4 | PB 67 |
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| ⇑4 | 25 | Peter Smyth | |
63 pts | 4 | PB 79 |
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| ⇑4 | 26 | Lorna Blake |  |
62 pts | 4 | PB 104 |
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| ⇓12 | 27 | Edward Haslam | |
60 pts | 4 | PB 91 |
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| ⇑3 | 28 | Douglas Cameron | |
58 pts | 3 | PB 61 |
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| ⇑4 | 29 | Matt Foulkes | |
51 pts | 3 | PB 86 |
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| ⇓9 | 30 | Heather Haslam | |
45 pts | 3 | PB 55 |
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| ⇑7 | 31 | Lisa Seixas | |
45 pts | 2 | PB 58 |
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| ⇓6 | 32 | Gagandeep Singh Bharij | |
42 pts | 3 | PB 57 |
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| ⇓5 | 33 | Matthew Frost | |
39 pts | 3 | PB 120 |
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| ⇑6 | 34 | Mike Krotosky | |
37 pts | 2 | PB 65 |
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| ⇓3 | 35 | Damian Cook | |
32 pts | 2 | PB 85 |
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| ⇑7 | 36 | Chris Davey | |
29 pts | 2 | PB 80 |
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| ⇑7 | 37 | Sean White | |
26 pts | 2 | PB 91 |
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| ⇓4 | 38 | Andrew Chilcraft | |
26 pts | 2 | PB 131 |
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| ⇓4 | 39 | Mark Ouborg | |
23 pts | 1 | R | ||
| ⇓4 | 40 | David Wilford | |
22 pts | 1 | PB 47 |
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| ⇓4 | 41 | Peter Lupton | |
21 pts | 1 | PB | ||
| ⇓4 | 42 | Sergio Benis | |
21 pts | 1 | R | ||
| ⇓2 | 43 | Wendy Wilford | |
11 pts | 1 | PB 59 |
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| ⇓2 | 44 | Rich Davis | |
8 pts | 1 | PB 36 |
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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 | |
Gemini | 5 players | 218 pts | 23 | (407) | |||
| 2 | |
Taurus | 6 players | 217 pts | 22 | (443) | |||
| 3 | |
Pisces | 7 players | 213 pts | 24 | (426) | |||
| 4 | |
Aries | 5 players | 173 pts | 20 | (312) | |||
| 5 | |
Libra | 4 players | 169 pts | 13 | (231) | |||
| 6 | |
Leo | 6 players | 162 pts | 18 | (303) | |||
| 7 | |
Capricorn | 1 player | 146 pts | 9 | (146) | |||
| 8 | |
Cancer | 4 players | 145 pts | 12 | (196) | |||
| 9 | |
Aquarius | 2 players | 144 pts | 10 | (177) | |||
| 10 | |
Virgo | 2 players | 107 pts | 6 | (118) | |||
| 11 | |
Sagittarius | 1 player | 85 pts | 5 | (85) | |||
| 12 | |
Scorpio | 1 player | 62 pts | 4 | (62) | |||
| SCORE | |||||||||
LATEST COMPETITION UPDATES: 
Items uncovered so far:
| 1 | Cracker | 2 | Angel | 3 | Donkey | 4 | Holly | 5 | Star | 6 | Penguin | ||
| 7 | Bell | 8 | Teddy | 9 | Gingerbread Man | 10 | Wreath | 11 | Bauble | 12 | Robin | ||
| 13 | Tree | 14 | Snowman | 15 | Stocking | 16 | Reindeer | 17 | Gift | 18 | Santa | ||
| 19 | Star | 20 | 5 Days To Go | 21 | Pudding | 22 | Snowflake | 23 | Elf | 24 | Sleigh | ||
Decisions
All decisions (disciplinary etc.), other than those to award points, are detailed publically. Please visit our decisions repository.
Random Stats
| Number of players: | 44 | |
| Number of players who can/cannot still win: | 1 / 43 | |
| Number of players who have been invited but are yet to play: | 5 | e.g. Jade Baines. Why, Jade, 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...