Hello and welcome to the 2014 Advent Calendar Challenge!
The Advent Calendar Challenge is a fun yearly competition, in 2014 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 is simply the person who gets the most points over the course of the competition. Simple. Easy. Fun.
There was just one change for 2014:
- Guesses were chosen from a 30 (rather than 36) item list - the list contained all items that occured in the calendar (however many times they occur, they are listed only once) and however many items that were required to inflate the list to 30. This was to help mitigate against a random calendar destroying the competition!
| CURRENT STANDINGS | ||||||||
| 1 | Lorna Blake |  |
104 pts | 8 | PB | |||
| ⇑1 | 2 | Damian Cook |  |
85 pts | 4 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 3 | Anthony Smith |  |
78 pts | 5 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 4 | Andrew Chilcraft |  |
76 pts | 7 | PB | ||
| ⇓3 | 5 | Gemma Morgan | |
74 pts | 5 | PB | ||
| 6 | Ross Turnbull | |
74 pts | 4 | PB | |||
| ⇑1 | 7 | Sean White |  |
53 pts | 3 | PB 60 |
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| ⇑2 | = | Neil Blake | |
53 pts | 3 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 9 | Antony Brown | |
52 pts | 3 | PB 109 |
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| ⇑1 | 10 | Veronica White |  |
50 pts | 5 | PB | ||
| ⇑1 | 11 | Samantha Myers |  |
50 pts | 3 | R | ||
| ⇑3 | 12 | Nigel White |  |
46 pts | 4 | PB | ||
| ⇑4 | 13 | Chris Green | |
46 pts | 2 | R | ||
| ⇓7 | 14 | Christina Dale |  |
42 pts | 3 | PB 45 |
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| ⇑4 | 15 | Mark Coughlan |  |
42 pts | 2 | PB 82 |
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| ⇑7 | 16 | Hayley Ahmad | |
38 pts | 4 | PB | ||
| ⇑10 | 17 | Simon Rutter |  |
32 pts | 3 | PB 80 |
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| ⇑10 | 18 | Kevin Brown | |
32 pts | 2 | PB 63 |
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| ⇑16 | 19 | Steph Foulkes | |
25 pts | 2 | PB 56 |
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| ⇓7 | 20 | David Wilford | |
24 pts | 2 | PB 29 |
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| ⇓7 | 21 | Matthew Frost | |
23 pts | 2 | PB 36 |
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| ⇓6 | 22 | Andrew Dale | |
22 pts | 2 | PB 54 |
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| ⇓6 | 23 | Ed Coughlan | |
22 pts | 1 | PB 39 |
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| ⇓5 | 24 | Ramani Armstrong | |
18 pts | 1 | PB 38 |
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| ⇓4 | 25 | Gagandeep Singh Bharij | |
16 pts | 2 | PB 57 |
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| ⇓4 | 26 | Tony Nicholls | |
15 pts | 2 | PB | ||
| ⇓3 | 27 | Vicki Pipe | |
13 pts | 2 | PB | ||
| ⇓3 | 28 | Linda Nicholls | |
12 pts | 1 | PB 14 |
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| ⇓3 | 29 | Al Brown | |
11 pts | 1 | PB 23 |
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| ⇓1 | 30 | Wendy Scrivin | |
7 pts | 1 | PB 59 |
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| ⇓1 | = | Joseph Palmer | |
7 pts | 1 | R | ||
| ⇓1 | 32 | Andy Nicholls | |
6 pts | 1 | PB 45 |
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| ⇓1 | 33 | Grace Marson | |
2 pts | 1 | PB 83 |
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| ⇓1 | = | Ben Procter | |
2 pts | 1 | PB 115 |
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| ⇓1 | = | Lisa Seixas | |
2 pts | 1 | PB 55 |
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| ⇓1 | 36 | Kelly Loughnane | |
1 pt | 1 | R | ||
| ⇓1 | = | Simon Attwood | |
1 pt | 1 | PB 66 |
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| 38 | Geoff Marshall | |
0 pts | 0 | PB 70 |
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| = | Matt Nunn | |
0 pts | 0 | PB 66 |
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| = | Matthew Scrivin | |
0 pts | 0 | PB 44 |
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| = | Tom White | |
0 pts | 0 | PB 49 |
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| = | Jade Baines |  |
0 pts | 0 | R | |||
| = | Iain MacNaughton | |
0 pts | 0 | PB 3 |
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| = | Alfie Cochrane | |
0 pts | 0 | R | |||
| = | Joe Harper | |
0 pts | 0 | R | |||
| = | Chris Davey | |
0 pts | 0 | PB 0 |
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| = | Peter Smyth | |
0 pts | 0 | PB 34 |
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| SCORE | ||||||||
The teams' championship was the same again - astrological star-signs. Final standings:
| TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS | ||||||||
| 1 | |
Libra | ×5 | 256 pts | ||||
| 2 | |
Scorpio | ×3 | 184 pts | ||||
| 3 | |
Aries | ×3 | 152 pts | ||||
| 4 | |
Taurus | ×8 | 143 pts | ||||
| 5 | |
Pisces | ×6 | 130 pts | ||||
| 6 | |
Leo | ×7 | 112 pts | ||||
| 7 | |
Cancer | ×5 | 98 pts | ||||
| 8 | |
Aquarius | ×2 | 57 pts | ||||
| 9 | |
Sagittarius | ×1 | 50 pts | ||||
| 10 | |
Gemini | ×4 | 42 pts | ||||
| 11 | |
Capricorn | ×2 | 32 pts | ||||
| 12 | |
Virgo | ×1 | 0 pts | ||||
| SCORE | ||||||||
Items uncovered:
| 1 | Star, Bell & Holly |
2 | Candy Cane | 3 | Cottage | 4 | Snowflake | 5 | Wreath | 6 | Cracker | ||
| 7 | Santa & Gift |
8 | Stocking, Gift & Candy Cane |
9 | Woolly Hat & Holly |
10 | Carol Singer | 11 | Drum | 12 | Snowman & Children |
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| 13 | Santa Hat & Holly |
14 | Sledge & Children |
15 | Toy Train | 16 | Rocking Horse | 17 | Gift | 18 | Bauble | ||
| 19 | Robin & Santa Hat |
20 | Spinning Top | 21 | Holly | 22 | Xmas Tree | 23 | Star | 24 | Santa, Gift & Xmas Tree |
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Decisions of the stewards
All decisions (disciplinary etc.), other than those to award points, were detailed publically. Please visit the 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...