Hello and welcome to the 2017 Advent Calendar Challenge!

(This is the last year before I overhaul this page, honest!)

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 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 competitions to see what went on.

		FINAL STANDINGS
		1	Andrew Chilcraft		110 pts	7	PB
	⇑1	2	Al Brown		101 pts	5	PB
	⇓1	3	Nigel White		98 pts	6	PB
	⇑1	4	Mark Coughlan		93 pts	5	PB
	⇑1	5	Neil Blake		89 pts	5	PB 93
	⇑1	6	Simon Rutter		88 pts	5	PB
	⇑1	7	Samantha Scrivin		85 pts	4	PB
	⇑1	=	Lorna Blake		85 pts	4	PB 104
	⇑1	9	Jenny McGinn		83 pts	5	PB
	⇑1	10	Tom White		82 pts	4	PB
	⇑2	11	Matthew Frost		79 pts	4	PB 120
	⇑2	12	Steph Foulkes		77 pts	5	PB 103
	⇓9	13	Christina Dale		76 pts	5	PB
	⇑1	14	Ross Turnbull		72 pts	4	PB 78
	⇑2	15	Håkan Wolgé		69 pts	4	PB 88
	⇑2	16	Joseph Palmer		67 pts	3	PB 71
	⇑2	=	Chris Green		67 pts	3	PB
	⇑3	18	Peter Smyth		66 pts	3	PB 79
	⇓7	19	Ben Procter		56 pts	4	PB 115
	⇓4	20	Andrew Dale		46 pts	4	PB 54
	⇓3	21	Sebastian Maudling		43 pts	2	PB 89
	⇓1	22	Antony Brown		42 pts	2	PB 121
		23	Emma Tuckey		41 pts	3	R
		24	Michelle Mckay		40 pts	4	PB 108
	⇑14	25	David Wilford		40 pts	3	PB
	⇓1	26	Sean White		40 pts	3	PB 91
	⇑14	27	Rich Davis		36 pts	2	R
	⇓2	28	Dave Byrd		34 pts	2	PB 51
	⇓2	=	Lorraine Craggs		34 pts	2	PB 39
	⇓2	30	Hugo Yap		32 pts	2	PB
	⇓2	31	Jade Baines		32 pts	2	PB 58
	⇓2	32	Andy Nicholls		31 pts	2	PB 45
	⇓2	33	Veronica White		26 pts	2	PB 71
	⇑13	34	Mike Krotosky		25 pts	2	PB 51
	⇓3	35	William Keppel		23 pts	1	PB 69
	⇓3	=	Rosie Wallbank		23 pts	1	R
	⇓3	37	Gagandeep Singh Bharij		22 pts	1	PB 57
	⇓3	=	Iain MacNaughton		22 pts	1	PB
	⇓3	=	Lisa Seixas		22 pts	1	PB 58
	⇓3	40	Simon Gosney		20 pts	1	R
	⇓3	41	Simon Attwood		19 pts	1	PB 66
	⇓2	42	Matt Nunn		14 pts	1	PB 69
	⇓1	43	Wendy Scrivin		11 pts	1	PB 59
	⇓1	=	Lord Byron VII		11 pts	1	PB 57
	⇓1	=	Chris Davey		11 pts	1	PB 80
	⇓1	46	Kevin Brown		6 pts	1	PB 69
	⇓1	47	Damian Cook		3 pts	1	PB 85
					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		Aries	×5		330 pts
	2		Pisces	×5		287 pts
	3		Leo	×6		284 pts
	4		Gemini	×5		267 pts
	5		Taurus	×5		222 pts
	6		Cancer	×7		215 pts
	7		Scorpio	×3		199 pts
	8		Libra	×5		168 pts
	9		Capricorn	×2		110 pts
	10		Aquarius	×2		93 pts
	11		Sagittarius	×1		85 pts
	12		Virgo	×1		32 pts
						SCORE

Items uncovered:

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...