Hello and welcome to the 2019 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 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 competitions to see what went on.

If you played last year you should get a PIN in your inbox automatically, and you can get started by submitting your guess in the form below! If you didn't play last year and want to play, apply for a PIN via the registration page. Once you have received your PIN, use the form below to submit your guess. You can change your guess as often as you like. The guess registered at the time of a window being opened is assessed for points on each day, and please note there is no need to sumbit a new guess every day as your guess remains in place until you change it or until it comes up, however long that may be! Your guess need not be unique. The eventual winner might win a top secret prize...

Two important points about choosing your guess:

• you HAVE to re-submit a guess after you score points, as scoring players have their guess wiped clean. You may, of course, re-set the same guess if you wish. This is to deter players from trying to set a lucky one-off guess and win despite never visiting the website again!
• guesses must be chosen from a list - this list contains all items that occur in the calendar (however many times they occur, they are listed only once), and only those items.

Good Luck!

		FINAL STANDINGS
		1	Håkan Wolgé		135 pts	7	WR
		2	Andrew Chilcraft		131 pts	7	PB
		3	Antony Brown		105 pts	6	PB 121
	⇑1	4	Emma Tuckey		71 pts	5	PB
	⇑1	5	Geoff Marshall		67 pts	4	PB 70
	⇑1	6	Ed Coughlan		67 pts	3	PB
	⇑1	7	Peter Smyth		66 pts	3	PB 79
	⇑1	8	Neil Blake		65 pts	3	PB 93
	⇑1	9	Simon Rutter		64 pts	5	PB 88
	⇑1	10	Matt Foulkes		64 pts	4	PB 86
	⇑2	11	Mike Krotosky		63 pts	3	PB 65
	⇑2	12	Chris Green		60 pts	4	PB 67
	⇑2	13	Steph Coughlan		57 pts	3	PB 103
	⇑3	14	Heather Haslam		55 pts	3	R
	⇑4	15	Mark Coughlan		53 pts	3	PB 93
	⇓12	16	Ben Procter		53 pts	3	PB 115
	⇑5	17	Jamie Appleby		52 pts	3	R
	⇑6	18	Samantha Scrivin		47 pts	2	PB 85
	⇑6	=	David Wilford		47 pts	2	PB
	⇑7	20	Ross Turnbull		46 pts	2	PB 78
	⇑7	=	Nigel White		46 pts	2	PB 98
	⇑7	22	Damian Cook		44 pts	2	PB 85
	⇑7	23	Tom White		43 pts	2	PB 112
	⇑7	24	Matthew Frost		42 pts	3	PB 120
	⇑7	25	Matt Nunn		41 pts	3	PB 79
	⇑7	26	Lisa Seixas		41 pts	2	PB 58
	⇓15	27	Nina Dale		40 pts	2	PB 76
	⇑6	28	Veronica White		38 pts	3	PB 101
	⇑6	29	Rosie Wallbank		38 pts	2	PB
	⇑6	=	Sean White		38 pts	2	PB 91
	⇑6	31	Lorna Blake		35 pts	2	PB 104
	⇓16	32	Edward Haslam		31 pts	3	PB 91
	⇓15	33	Jade Baines		30 pts	2	PB 58
	⇓15	34	Rich Davis		29 pts	2	PB 36
	⇑5	35	Wendy Wilford		28 pts	2	PB 59
	⇑5	=	Chris Davey		28 pts	2	PB 80
	⇑5	=	Douglas Cameron		28 pts	2	PB 61
	⇓17	38	Andrew Dale		28 pts	2	PB 54
	⇑4	39	Simon Gosney		24 pts	1	PB 72
	⇓17	40	Joseph Palmer		23 pts	2	PB 71
	⇓17	41	Kevin Brown		23 pts	1	PB 69
	⇓4	42	Gagandeep Singh Bharij		8 pts	1	PB 57
	⇓4	43	Chris Pratt		5 pts	1	PB 48
					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	7 players		329 pts
	2		Taurus	6 players		327 pts
	3		Aries	4 players		309 pts
	4		Pisces	5 players		253 pts
	5		Libra	4 players		223 pts
	6		Gemini	5 players		211 pts
	7		Cancer	4 players		153 pts
	8		Virgo	2 players		82 pts
	9		Aquarius	3 players		66 pts
	10		Capricorn	1 player		64 pts
	11		Sagittarius	1 player		47 pts
	12		Scorpio	1 player		35 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...