It\u2019s nuts to think that this year, if I bring it back, will be the 20th running of this weird little pre-Christmas competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m definitely bringing it back, by the way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For some it\u2019s a thing that they enter just out of a strange sense of loyalty, for others it\u2019s full on part of their festive tradition, and there\u2019s no doubt the full spectrum in-between. We\u2019ve had 125 different people play it over the years. Only two players have played in every edition, and there\u2019s a whole load of people for whom once was enough. It\u2019d be nice if we could mark the milestone by having as many players return as possible, but, well. It\u2019s tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The easiest way to try and get a crazy huge field of people would be to email everyone who has ever played and invite them back, explain my thinking, etc etc, but I am very keen to not do this. Worried about bombarding people with emails about a thing they most likely don\u2019t care about, it has always been my policy to email player details only to those people who actively played (that is, registered a guess) the previous year. There\u2019s no mailing list, as such, but if you can\u2019t be bothered with it just ignore the email one year and you won\u2019t hear from the challenge again, unless you pro-actively email in yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I cannot bring myself to change that, so this blog post is going to have to be the way. I\u2019ll lazily tweet and FB this post a few times in the next four weeks up to starting day. Pass it on, if you know someone who has previously played but DIDN\u2019T LAST YEAR give them a gentle poke so it\u2019s not me who\u2019s bothering them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year is the 20th running of the Advent Calendar Challenge, and to mark this crazy occasion I\u2019m looking to welcome as many returning players (and indeed new ones) as possible. If you have played in the past but didn\u2019t play last year, get in touch and I\u2019ll get you entered for this year. Thanks all, and I look forward to hearing from you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you haven\u2019t played before, and I know you, also get in touch. New players traditionally do very well for some reason, so this could be your best shot at winning! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s see how unsuccessful this campaign is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s nuts to think that this year, if I bring it back, will be the 20th running of this weird little pre-Christmas competition. I\u2019m definitely bringing it back, by the way! For some it\u2019s a thing that they enter just out of a strange sense of loyalty, for others it\u2019s full on part of their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website","content","has-not-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}