Hello and welcome to the 2018 Advent Calendar Challenge!

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 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 competitions to see what went on.

		FINAL STANDINGS
		1	Tom White		112 pts	7	PB
		2	Veronica White		101 pts	5	PB
		3	Edward Haslam		91 pts	5	R
		4	Matt Foulkes		86 pts	4	R
		5	Lorna Blake		83 pts	4	PB 104
		6	Steph Foulkes		81 pts	5	PB 103
	⇑1	=	Håkan Wolgé		81 pts	5	PB 88
		8	Simon Rutter		81 pts	4	PB 88
		9	Matt Nunn		79 pts	4	PB
	⇑1	10	Nigel White		76 pts	4	PB 98
	⇑1	11	Simon Gosney		72 pts	4	PB
	⇑3	12	Mark Coughlan		65 pts	3	PB 93
	⇑2	=	Mike Krotosky		65 pts	3	PB
	⇑4	14	Douglas Cameron		61 pts	3	R
	⇑7	15	Andrew Chilcraft		56 pts	4	PB 110
	⇑9	16	Peter Smyth		53 pts	4	PB 79
	⇑9	17	Neil Blake		53 pts	3	PB 93
	⇓8	18	Jenny McGinn		52 pts	4	PB 83
	⇑8	19	Sean White		51 pts	3	PB 91
	⇑9	=	Ben Procter		51 pts	3	PB 115
	⇑10	21	Nina Dale		46 pts	2	PB 76
	⇑10	=	Andrew Dale		46 pts	2	PB 54
	⇑10	=	Kevin Brown		46 pts	2	PB 69
	⇑10	=	Ross Turnbull		46 pts	2	PB 78
	⇑11	25	Matthew Frost		45 pts	2	PB 120
	⇑12	26	Chris Green		43 pts	2	PB 67
	⇓14	27	Samantha Scrivin		42 pts	2	PB 85
	⇓12	28	Chris Davey		39 pts	3	PB 80
	⇓12	29	Andy Nicholls		38 pts	3	PB 45
	⇑15	30	Antony Brown		36 pts	2	PB 121
	⇓12	31	Lorraine Craggs		35 pts	2	PB 39
	⇓12	32	William Keppel		33 pts	2	PB 69
	⇓12	=	Lisa Seixas		33 pts	2	PB 58
	⇓11	34	Glen Bryant		32 pts	3	PB
	⇓11	35	Emma Tuckey		30 pts	3	PB 41
	⇓7	36	Damian Cook		26 pts	2	PB 85
	⇓7	37	Jade Baines		23 pts	2	PB 58
	⇓7	38	Geoff Marshall		22 pts	1	PB 70
	⇓3	39	Chris Pratt		21 pts	1	PB 48
	⇓2	40	Wendy Wilford		19 pts	1	PB 59
	⇓1	41	David Wilford		17 pts	1	PB 40
	⇓1	=	Dave Byrd		17 pts	1	PB 51
	⇓1	43	Iain MacNaughton		15 pts	1	PB 22
	⇓1	44	Gagandeep Singh Bharij		13 pts	1	PB 57
	⇓1	=	Joseph Palmer		13 pts	1	PB 71
		46	Al Brown		8 pts	1	PB 101
		47	Rich Davis		0 pts	0	PB 36
					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		Leo	×8		373 pts
	2		Taurus	×6		349 pts
	3		Gemini	×4		283 pts
	4		Pisces	×4		220 pts
	5		Cancer	×6		197 pts
	6		Aries	×4		184 pts
	7		Scorpio	×3		173 pts
	8		Aquarius	×3		135 pts
	9		Libra	×4		127 pts
	10		Capricorn	×2		96 pts
	11		Virgo	×2		55 pts
	12		Sagittarius	×1		42 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...