Hello and welcome to the 2020 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 2019, 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.

And finally, please note that if you start the competition late then you will be deducted the number of points equivalent to how late you started, to encourage playing the whole game and to reward those that do.

Good Luck!

		FINAL STANDINGS
		1	Simon Rutter		146 pts	9	WR
		2	Antony Brown		121 pts	7	PB 121
		3	Tom White		121 pts	6	PB
		4	Steph Coughlan		111 pts	6	PB
		5	Veronica White		110 pts	6	PB
		6	Ben Procter		109 pts	6	PB 115
		7	Håkan Wolgé		104 pts	5	PB 135
		8	Mark Coughlan		100 pts	5	PB
		9	Aisling McCarthy		95 pts	5	R
		10	Chris Green		92 pts	5	PB
		11	Neil Blake		90 pts	6	PB 93
		12	Nina Dale		88 pts	5	PB
		13	Andrew Dale		86 pts	5	PB
		14	Samantha Scrivin		85 pts	5	PB 85
	⇑1	15	Kevin Brown		84 pts	4	PB
	⇑1	16	Emma Tuckey		81 pts	5	PB
	⇑1	17	Nigel White		77 pts	4	PB 98
	⇑1	18	Tony Wilson		76 pts	4	R
	⇑1	19	Matt Nunn		75 pts	4	PB 79
	⇑2	20	Simon Gosney		68 pts	4	PB 72
	⇑2	21	Joseph Palmer		67 pts	4	PB 71
	⇑3	=	Rosie Wallbank		67 pts	4	PB
	⇑2	23	Ross Turnbull		67 pts	3	PB 78
	⇑3	24	Ed Coughlan		65 pts	4	PB 67
	⇑4	25	Peter Smyth		63 pts	4	PB 79
	⇑4	26	Lorna Blake		62 pts	4	PB 104
	⇓12	27	Edward Haslam		60 pts	4	PB 91
	⇑3	28	Douglas Cameron		58 pts	3	PB 61
	⇑4	29	Matt Foulkes		51 pts	3	PB 86
	⇓9	30	Heather Haslam		45 pts	3	PB 55
	⇑7	31	Lisa Seixas		45 pts	2	PB 58
	⇓6	32	Gagandeep Singh Bharij		42 pts	3	PB 57
	⇓5	33	Matthew Frost		39 pts	3	PB 120
	⇑6	34	Mike Krotosky		37 pts	2	PB 65
	⇓3	35	Damian Cook		32 pts	2	PB 85
	⇑7	36	Chris Davey		29 pts	2	PB 80
	⇑7	37	Sean White		26 pts	2	PB 91
	⇓4	38	Andrew Chilcraft		26 pts	2	PB 131
	⇓4	39	Mark Ouborg		23 pts	1	R
	⇓4	40	David Wilford		22 pts	1	PB 47
	⇓4	41	Peter Lupton		21 pts	1	PB
	⇓4	42	Sergio Benis		21 pts	1	R
	⇓2	43	Wendy Wilford		11 pts	1	PB 59
	⇓2	44	Rich Davis		8 pts	1	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
	1		Gemini	5 players		218 pts	23	(407)
	2		Taurus	6 players		217 pts	22	(443)
	3		Pisces	7 players		213 pts	24	(426)
	4		Aries	5 players		173 pts	20	(312)
	5		Libra	4 players		169 pts	13	(231)
	6		Leo	6 players		162 pts	18	(303)
	7		Capricorn	1 player		146 pts	9	(146)
	8		Cancer	4 players		145 pts	12	(196)
	9		Aquarius	2 players		144 pts	10	(177)
	10		Virgo	2 players		107 pts	6	(118)
	11		Sagittarius	1 player		85 pts	5	(85)
	12		Scorpio	1 player		62 pts	4	(62)
						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...