Hello and welcome to the 2015 Advent Calendar Challenge!

The Advent Calendar Challenge is a fun yearly competition, and once again in 2015 players were invited to guess what the pictures behind the windows on my advent calendar were each day. Points were awarded (from 1 point on December 1st all the way up to 24 on Christmas Eve) for correctly guessing the picture, and the winner was simply the person who got the most points over the course of the competition.

There was one important rule change in 2015:

• Guesses were chosen from a list - that list contained all items that occur in the calendar (however many times they occur, they are listed only once), and ONLY those items, in a continuation of the named items trial that has been running for a few years.

		FINAL STANDINGS
		1	Antony Brown		121 pts	7	WR
		2	Neil Blake		93 pts	6	PB
	⇑1	3	Peter Smyth		79 pts	5	PB
	⇑2	4	Ross Turnbull		78 pts	4	PB
	⇑4	5	Simon Rutter		74 pts	4	PB 80
	⇑4	6	Lorna Blake		73 pts	5	PB 104
	⇑4	7	Sebastian Maudling		73 pts	4	R
	⇑4	8	Veronica White		71 pts	4	PB
	⇑4	9	Matt Nunn		69 pts	4	PB
	⇑4	=	William Keppel		69 pts	4	R
	⇑5	11	Samantha Myers		66 pts	4	PB
	⇑6	12	Mark Coughlan		63 pts	4	PB 82
	⇑6	13	Nigel White		61 pts	4	PB
	⇑6	14	Sean White		60 pts	3	PB 60
	⇑8	15	Damian Cook		57 pts	4	PB 85
	⇓13	16	Joseph Palmer		56 pts	4	PB
	⇓12	17	Al Brown		55 pts	3	PB
	⇓11	18	Matthew Frost		53 pts	3	PB
	⇓11	19	Mike Krotosky		51 pts	4	R
	⇑8	20	Dave Byrd		51 pts	3	R
	⇑8	21	Jenny McGinn		49 pts	3	R
	⇑10	22	Lisa Seixas		46 pts	2	PB 55
	⇓8	23	Geoff Marshall		43 pts	4	PB 70
	⇓7	24	Andrew Chilcraft		41 pts	3	PB 76
	⇓4	25	Jade Baines		35 pts	3	PB
	⇓4	26	Andrew Dale		35 pts	2	PB 54
	⇓3	27	Wendy Scrivin		33 pts	3	PB 59
	⇑18	28	Ben Procter		32 pts	2	PB 115
	⇓4	29	Lisa Turner		32 pts	2	R
	⇓4	30	Lorraine Craggs		29 pts	2	R
	⇓4	31	Gemma Morgan		29 pts	2	PB 74
	⇓2	32	Tom White		25 pts	2	PB 49
	⇓2	33	Chris Green		23 pts	2	PB 46
	⇓2	34	Steph Foulkes		22 pts	1	PB 56
	⇓2	=	David Wilford		22 pts	1	PB 29
	⇓2	=	Chris Davey		22 pts	1	PB
	⇓1	37	M. Asim Omar		21 pts	2	PB 43
	⇓1	38	Christina Dale		20 pts	1	PB 45
	⇓1	39	Alfie Cochrane		16 pts	1	PB
	⇓1	=	Vicki Pipe		16 pts	1	PB
	⇓1	41	Ruth Hardy		15 pts	2	R
	⇓1	42	Peter Lupton		15 pts	1	R
	⇓1	43	Gagandeep Singh Bharij		13 pts	2	PB 57
	⇓1	44	Håkan Wolgé		13 pts	2	PB 17
	⇓1	45	Mollie Warner		11 pts	1	R
	⇓1	46	Kevin Brown		10 pts	1	PB 63
		47	Andy Nicholls		2 pts	1	PB 45
		48	Ramani Armstrong		0 pts	0	PB 38
					SCORE

The teams' championship was once again based on astrological star-signs. Final standings:

	TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
	1		Leo	×7		322 pts
	2		Libra	×5		310 pts
	3		Pisces	×7		232 pts
	4		Cancer	×5		194 pts
	5		Taurus	×7		193 pts
	6		Aries	×3		187 pts
	7		Scorpio	×4		153 pts
	8		Gemini	×4		139 pts
	9		Aquarius	×2		127 pts
	10		Capricorn	×1		74 pts
	11		Sagittarius	×1		66 pts
	12		Virgo	×2		46 pts
						SCORE

Items uncovered:

Decisions

All decisions (disciplinary etc.), other than those to award points, are detailed publically. Please visit our decisions repository.

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...