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		83 pts	PB 109
		=	Grace Marson	18		83 pts	PB
		=	Sarah O'Donnell	11		83 pts	PB
		4	Simon Attwood	56		66 pts	PB
		5	Tom White	25		49 pts	PB
		6	Geoff Marshall	21		45 pts	R
		7	Matt Nunn	1		43 pts	PB 66
		8	Andy Nicholls	34		38 pts	PB 45
		=	Ramani Armstrong	51		38 pts	R
		10	Neil Blake	43		37 pts	PB
		11	Ornagh Higgins	47		29 pts	R
		12	Alex Turnbull	37		23 pts	PB 58
		13	Mark Coughlan	10		17 pts	PB 82
		14	Gagandeep Singh Bharij	28		17 pts	PB 57
		=	Ross Turnbull	41		17 pts	PB 65
		=	Håkan Wolgé	53		17 pts	PB
		17	Simon Rutter	16		16 pts	PB 80
		=	Peter Smyth	46		16 pts	PB 34
		19	Matthew Scrivin	12		14 pts	PB 44
		20	Matthew Frost	48		3 pts	PB 20
		21	Kate Henderson	40		1 pt	PB 13
		=	Anthony Smith	42		1 pt	PB 55
		=	Tony Nicholls	49		1 pt	PB
		24	Christina Dale	4		0 pts	PB 45
		=	James Tong	5		0 pts	PB 4
		=	Hayley Ahmad	6		0 pts	R
		=	Gemma Morgan	8		0 pts	PB 54
		=	Andrew Dale	3		0 pts	PB 54
		=	Wendy Scrivin	14		0 pts	PB 59
		=	Andrew Chilcraft	15		0 pts	R
		=	Kevin Brown	17		0 pts	PB 63
		=	Stephanie Foulkes	2		0 pts	PB 56
		=	Alessandro Turati	20		0 pts	PB 59
		=	Mike Stone	22		0 pts	PB 20
		=	Nigel White	23		0 pts	PB 0
		=	Glen Bryant	24		0 pts	PB 22
		=	Andy Green	30		0 pts	PB 37
		=	Iain MacNaughton	33		0 pts	R
		=	Elizabeth Scrivin	36		0 pts	PB 45
		=	Katie Morgan	39		0 pts	PB 35
		=	Al Brown	45		0 pts	PB 12
		=	Linda Nicholls	50		0 pts	PB 9
		=	Lorna Blake	52		0 pts	PB 84
		=	Lisa Seixas	54		0 pts	PB 21
		=	Stephen Armstrong	55	?	0 pts	R
		=	Vicki Pipe	57		0 pts	R
		=	Christine Turner	58		0 pts	PB 35
		=	Mark Rigg	59		0 pts	PB 44
		=	Sarah Scrivin	60		0 pts	R
		=	Ed Coughlan	61		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	×10		198 pts
	2		Cancer	×5		167 pts
	3		Gemini	×7		102 pts
	4		Libra	×4		100 pts
	5		Capricorn	×4		45 pts
	=		Leo	×5		45 pts
	7		Aries	×3		40 pts
	8		Scorpio	×3		38 pts
	9		Pisces	×5		1 pt
	=		Sagittarius	×1		1 pt
	11		Aquarius	×1		0 pts
	=		Virgo	×2		0 pts
						SCORE

Items uncovered:

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...