Hello and welcome to the 2023 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 2022, 2021, 2020, 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

	Pos	Player / Team		Score
	1	Eleda Johnson		117 (6)	R	2 in a row!
	2	Joseph Palmer		116 (6)	PB	5 in a row!
	3	Samantha Scrivin		115 (6)	PB 183	2 in a row!
	4	Chris Davey		110 (6)	PB	2 in a row!
	5	Neil Blake		109 (6)	PB 157	4 in a row!
	6	Kevin Brown		108 (6)	PB	3 in a row!
	7	Nigel White		106 (5)	PB 133	3 in a row!
	8	Lorna Blake		105 (6)	PB	3 in a row!
	9	Ross Turnbull		105 (5)	PB 109	4 in a row!
	10	Ben Procter		100 (5)	PB 164	4 in a row!
	11	Mark Coughlan		99 (6)	PB 123	3 in a row!
	12	Simon Gosney		97 (6)	PB 106	3 in a row!
	13	Nina Dale		93 (6)	PB	2 in a row!
	14	Andrew Chilcraft		91 (5)	PB 131	4 in a row!
⇑1	15	James Laughlin		88 (5)	PB 174	3 in a row!
⇑1	=	Matt Nunn		88 (5)	PB	3 in a row!
⇑1	17	Simon Rutter		87 (4)	PB 146	3 in a row!
⇑1	18	Steph Coughlan		86 (4)	PB 139	2 in a row!
⇑1	19	Chris Green		85 (5)	PB 92	3 in a row!
⇑1	20	Peter Smyth		83 (5)	PB 156	2 in a row!
⇑1	21	Geoff Marshall		82 (5)	PB	3 in a row!
⇑1	=	Matt Foulkes		82 (5)	PB 140	2 in a row!
⇑1	23	Veronica White		74 (5)	PB 135	3 in a row!
⇓10	24	Tony Wilson		67 (4)	PB 116
⇑1	25	Antony Brown		60 (3)	PB 121
⇑1	=	Tom White		60 (3)	PB 121
⇑3	27	Jen Fegan		55 (3)	PB
⇑3	28	Laz Kay		51 (4)	PB 68
⇑3	29	Håkan Wolgé		46 (3)	PB 162
⇓5	30	Matthew Frost		45 (4)	PB 172
⇑5	31	Sean White		38 (2)	PB 163
⇓4	32	Emma Tuckey		34 (3)	PB 81
⇓4	33	Andrew Dale		32 (2)	PB 131
⇓1	34	Cassie Laughlin		21 (2)	PB 111
⇓1	35	Damian Cook		21 (1)	PB 139
⇓1	36	Rosie Wallbank		15 (1)	PB 91
	37	Douglas Cameron		3 (1)	PB 126
	38	Mike Krotosky		2 (1)	PB 80
	39	Gagandeep Singh Bharij		-1 (0)	PB 57

This year's teams' championship was be the same again - I'm interested in finding out which astrological star-sign is the best!

Final Team Championship Standings

	Pos		Team	# players	Score
⇑1	1		Leo	6 players	220 (26)	+58
⇓1	2		Aries	6 players	217 (27)	+44
	3		Taurus	5 players	201 (21)	+50
	4		Gemini	5 players	190 (21)	+50
	5		Cancer	4 players	168 (12)	+36
	6		Pisces	3 players	160 (11)	+36
⇑1	7		Libra	4 players	158 (13)	+44
⇓1	8		Aquarius	2 players	153 (11)	+36
	9		Sagittarius	1 player	115 (6)	+24
	10		Scorpio	1 player	105 (6)	+24
	11		Capricorn	1 player	87 (4)	+24
	12		Virgo	1 player	21 (2)

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