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Hello and welcome to the 2012 Advent Calendar Challenge! If you are new to it all, let me explain.

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 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 competitions to see what went on.

  FINAL STANDINGS  
     1  Antony Brown 7 Libra 83 pts PB
109
 
     =  Grace Marson 18 Taurus 83 pts PB  
     =  Sarah O'Donnell 11 Cancer 83 pts PB  
     4  Simon Attwood 56 Cancer 66 pts PB  
     5  Tom White 25 Gemini 49 pts PB  
     6  Geoff Marshall 21 Leo 45 pts R  
     7  Matt Nunn 1 Taurus 43 pts PB
66
 
     8  Andy Nicholls 34 Scorpio 38 pts PB
45
 
     =  Ramani Armstrong 51 Taurus 38 pts R  
     10  Neil Blake 43 Aries 37 pts PB  
     11  Ornagh Higgins 47 Capricorn 29 pts R  
     12  Alex Turnbull 37 Gemini 23 pts PB
58
 
     13  Mark Coughlan 10 Taurus 17 pts PB
82
 
     14  Gagandeep Singh Bharij 28 Cancer 17 pts PB
57
 
     =  Ross Turnbull 41 Libra 17 pts PB
65
 
     =  Håkan Wolgé 53 Taurus 17 pts PB  
     17  Simon Rutter 16 Capricorn 16 pts PB
80
 
     =  Peter Smyth 46 Gemini 16 pts PB
34
 
     19  Matthew Scrivin 12 Gemini 14 pts PB
44
 
     20  Matthew Frost 48 Aries 3 pts PB
20
 
     21  Kate Henderson 40 Sagittarius 1 pt PB
13
 
     =  Anthony Smith 42 Cancer 1 pt PB
55
 
     =  Tony Nicholls 49 Pisces 1 pt PB  
     24  Christina Dale 4 Gemini 0 pts PB
45
 
     =  James Tong 5 Leo 0 pts PB
4
 
     =  Hayley Ahmad 6 Libra 0 pts R  
     =  Gemma Morgan 8 Scorpio 0 pts PB
54
 
     =  Andrew Dale 3 Pisces 0 pts PB
54
 
     =  Wendy Scrivin 14 Libra 0 pts PB
59
 
     =  Andrew Chilcraft 15 Aries 0 pts R  
     =  Kevin Brown 17 Taurus 0 pts PB
63
 
     =  Stephanie Foulkes 2 Pisces 0 pts PB
56
 
     =  Alessandro Turati 20 Cancer 0 pts PB
59
 
     =  Mike Stone 22 Taurus 0 pts PB
20
 
     =  Nigel White 23 Pisces 0 pts PB
0
 
     =  Glen Bryant 24 Virgo 0 pts PB
22
 
     =  Andy Green 30 Capricorn 0 pts PB
37
 
     =  Iain MacNaughton 33 Capricorn 0 pts R  
     =  Elizabeth Scrivin 36 Gemini 0 pts PB
45
 
     =  Katie Morgan 39 Virgo 0 pts PB
35
 
     =  Al Brown 45 Leo 0 pts PB
12
 
     =  Linda Nicholls 50 Taurus 0 pts PB
9
 
     =  Lorna Blake 52 Scorpio 0 pts PB
84
 
     =  Lisa Seixas 54 Leo 0 pts PB
21
 
     =  Stephen Armstrong 55 ? 0 pts R  
     =  Vicki Pipe 57 Taurus 0 pts R  
     =  Christine Turner 58 Gemini 0 pts PB
35
 
     =  Mark Rigg 59 Taurus 0 pts PB
44
 
     =  Sarah Scrivin 60 Aquarius 0 pts R  
     =  Ed Coughlan 61 Pisces 0 pts PB
39
 
  SCORE  
                 

For the team's championship I was interested in finding out which astrological star-sign is the best:

  FINAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS  
  1 Taurus  Taurus ×10 198 pts  
  2 Cancer  Cancer ×5 167 pts  
  3 Gemini  Gemini ×7 102 pts  
  4 Libra  Libra ×4 100 pts  
  5 Capricorn  Capricorn ×4 45 pts  
  = Leo  Leo ×5 45 pts  
  7 Aries  Aries ×3 40 pts  
  8 Scorpio  Scorpio ×3 38 pts  
  9 Pisces  Pisces ×5 1 pt  
  = Sagittarius  Sagittarius ×1 1 pt  
  11 Aquarius  Aquarius ×1 0 pts  
  = Virgo  Virgo ×2 0 pts  
  SCORE  

Items uncovered:

  1 Angel 2 Jack-in-the-box 3 Star 4 Apple 5 Rabbit 6 Chicken  
               
  7 Shooting Star 8 Carol Singer 9 Car 10 Angel 11 Hedgehog
&
Apple
12 Angel
&
Star
 
               
  13 Star 14 Teddy Bear 15 Teddy Bear 16 Snowman 17 Present 18 Squirrel  
               
  19 Two Birds 20 Heart 21 Bird
&
Present
22 Dog
&
Present
23 Mice
&
Present
24 Princess  
               

Decisions of the stewards

All decisions of the stewards, 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...