Hannah.

Oh oh! From the pre-games press release...
Does this mean my wish is going to come true?! Are they FINALLY going to update her bio and the commentators blurbs so they no longer go on about her lack of experience when she's been playing for Shenkuu for A DECADE...
Or am I well into the realm of wishful thinking here?

Shenkuu for me, this will be just my third AC, but Shenkuu was who I picked initially and I'm sticking with them.

i miss the old yellow bar and the old Neopets art ... like the original Halloween Lupe and Tyrannian Krawk ... 
 

I'll tell you what I totally DON'T miss...
Landing on the ? on the Wheel of Excitement and always getting just 37NP!

I'd say the Viacom Era was more of a middle of the road deal over true Old School. Old School would be back when Adam and Donna ran the site, and I can't speak for it because I wasn't around during that time. From the Viacom Era, I would say I miss stuff like the Wheel of Slime, Keyquest, and Habitarium the most. I also miss the Abandoned Attic, I know it wasn't completely removed, but it's been glitched since 2014 to no longer stock, and since it hasn't been addressed, I'd say it's probably good and gone now.
Another thing I miss is plots. I have no idea if we'll ever see more plots come into play now, the Viacom Era really gave way to some interesting ones. My favorite, to this day, is the Neovia one, and Bruno still remains one of my favorite characters; and the reason I love monstrous characters in the first place. (Ignore this if they have released plots, last I remember was the Faerie Ruin Plot, but I thought that was like the end of the Viacom Era. Not sure if that was actually a JumpStart Era plot.)
Most of all though, I miss the contests and the like. Some still are active, but a lot now seem to be put on an indefinite hiatus. It's sad a lot of the content is now just barely paid attention now.
JumpStart I think may still have time to be a great era, especially since they expressed the reason they purchased Neopets was to focus on the site's now older demographic. But for now, it feels like they still have a long way to go to usurper the Viacom Era.

I'm just a bit miffed that the participation medal is exactly the same as last years. That feels like...I dunno...they're saying, "hey if you're too lazy to do more than just participate, then we can't be bothered to do more than badly edit last years medal for you".
And TNT's idea of a "nice" site theme differ wildly to mine, *pokes all the smug Chadleys in the eye*  Don't think I'll be using that one any time soon.
Despite the fact that I may be sounding like a total grouch here, lol, I enjoyed DD.

I also tend to hoard stamps (and books) in my SDB. They're consumable, so my logic is that the value is bound to rise if you wait long enough. 

took me 2 hours but I beat Chadley's score in Internet Explorer and it still won't show up for Daily Dare. 

I completed all of the challenges!  I beat Chadley for every one!  Congrats to everyone else who participated!  Some of those scores were really tough!
Good luck, Mouseykins! And I hope you can submit your Barf Boat score, d_artemiss! I would be so frustrated if I were in your shoes!

I completed all of the challenges!  I beat Chadley for every one!  Congrats to everyone else who participated!  Some of those scores were really tough!
Good luck, Mouseykins! And I hope you can submit your Barf Boat score, d_artemiss! I would be so frustrated if I were in your shoes!

I completed all of the challenges!  I beat Chadley for every one!  Congrats to everyone else who participated!  Some of those scores were really tough!
Good luck, Mouseykins! And I hope you can submit your Barf Boat score, d_artemiss! I would be so frustrated if I were in your shoes!

I did it! I beat Chadley every day! Congratulations to everyone else who completed the DD and earned whatever trophy they got as well!
Super surprised about all the low scores on games this year but I am not complaining because I will have a shiny gold trophy on my userlookup now! ;) 

I haven't had much time to play the games this time around so I'm lagging behind. I have 6 challenges to complete right now and I'm hoping to be able to beat Chadley for all of them, but if it comes down to it at 11:00pm NST I'll just start challenging Abigail to get them completed. Really hoping I can squeeze out a gold.
Currently I have Days 3, 4, 6, 12, 17, and of course 18 to complete.

After two hours of playing, I have FINALLY beat Chadley's score.  I was really worried that this challenge would cause me to get silver! 
I really should have been doing my coursework... If only I could give that the same determination as I do Daily Dare...

I agree that a gold medal should involve beating AAA/Chadley every day, but I think that there should be more levels of trophy - like in GMC.  Like the next level could be beating AAA/Chadley more than half of the days and Abigail the rest, beating AAA/Chadley less than half of the days and beating Abigail the rest, etc.   Or even making it so that a person doesn't need to play all of the days to get a silver trophy if they have mostly AAA/Chadley wins. It's a really harsh punishment to go from Gold Medal to participant by forgetting to play on the last day.  The event is 20 days long!   More levels of prizes/more nuance of prize levels could really help the event.
Years ago, the AAA Daily Dare scores seemed so out of reach! And now, they are usually under my highest score for the game prior to the event.  
Assignment 53 has been the hardest game for me to get the score so far! (Kou Jong took a while, but it was relatively low stress).  Kiko Racing was also tough, but I got into a groove eventually.

I played around with the links and found this year's trophies. Gonna link them and not post the images directly in case you want to be surprised
Gold
Silver
Bronze
I think they look pretty cool. Way better than last year's. What about you guys?
Couldn't find the participation medal.
EDIT:
Some users on the forums found the participation trophy and a couple of prizes. Credits to boundingwarfs and minnesotan:
Participation medal
Prize 1
Prize 2
 
 

So, see that sticky note that says "Chemistry" on the main page of DD? Apparently, the rest of the sticky notes have been uploaded and we can now know what the games for the next challenges are. Here they are in order:
Kou-jong (ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!)
Bruno's Backwoods Breakaway
Tubular Kiko Racing
Mop 'n' Bop
Cooty Wars
Korbat's Lab
Whirlpool
Usul Suspects
Lost City Lanes
Toy Box Escape
Hungry Skeith
Hot Dog Hero
Revel Roundup
Cave Glider
Jubble Bubble
Assignment 53
Barf Boat
Wheeler's Wild Ride
AAA's Revenge
I'm extremely worried about Kou-Jong and Tubular Kiko Racing. I'm terrible at those games.
 
 

Haha xD
Maybe TNT can dream up an event where you get trophies for being the most lazy? I could totally nail it if you got a big shiny trophy for NOT winning a single game.

I agree that a gold medal should involve beating AAA/Chadley every day, but I think that there should be more levels of trophy - like in GMC.  Like the next level could be beating AAA/Chadley more than half of the days and Abigail the rest, beating AAA/Chadley less than half of the days and beating Abigail the rest, etc.   Or even making it so that a person doesn't need to play all of the days to get a silver trophy if they have mostly AAA/Chadley wins. It's a really harsh punishment to go from Gold Medal to participant by forgetting to play on the last day.  The event is 20 days long!   More levels of prizes/more nuance of prize levels could really help the event.
Years ago, the AAA Daily Dare scores seemed so out of reach! And now, they are usually under my highest score for the game prior to the event.  
Assignment 53 has been the hardest game for me to get the score so far! (Kou Jong took a while, but it was relatively low stress).  Kiko Racing was also tough, but I got into a groove eventually.

I'm gonna have to politely disagree. It's true that lots of players don't have the time or skills to beat AAA/Chadley's scores, but that's exactly why TNT introduced Abigail in the first place, so everyone can take part in the event. It's the entire point of her as a character. AAA and Chadley are supposed to be there for people who can and are willing to put their time and effort into besting them. If TNT just starts lowering their scores and makes them ridiculously easy because of the fact that some players are busy, have slow computers, or are just not good at games... then what's the point of Daily Dare? It wouldn't be that different from a giveaway event.
 Also, Daily Dare is not and has never been stressful. If a player is having trouble beating AAA/Chadley, they can just challenge Abigail or skip the challenge altogether. At the end of the day it's just a game and players are the ones who shouldn't let it become stressful.
 Sorry if I sounded rude.

Yeah, Hannah and Hanso have got it, it definitely SHOULD need you to beat Chadley every time to get gold, or what's the pointing of it being a gold trophy?
Gold trophies are meant to be hard to earn, they are the pinnacle of achievement. They are for being the absolute best, after all, not almost the best, not the best on some days. So if you can't be the absolute best, for whatever reason, you just got to suck it up and move on. Work on your moves for next time, or cut your losses if that isn't possible.
Let's take a look at my achievements so far:
Chadley beaten 7 times - Abigail beaten 3 times - 6 days total fail from me... I'll get a participation trophy and because I've not scored on a number of the days that's just as it should be, but it's a bit of a kick in the teeth for people who only fail on one day...hmm, but then again...is that really any different to feeling entitled to a gold trophy because you nearly beat Chadley every day? Not really...
I can see why TNT didn't muddy the water with trophies for different levels of winning/participation and so on, because where do you stop? It would cause more trouble and confusion than it was worth, because there's always going to be some people who aren't happy with how things turn out for them, no matter what.

I agree that a gold medal should involve beating AAA/Chadley every day, but I think that there should be more levels of trophy - like in GMC.  Like the next level could be beating AAA/Chadley more than half of the days and Abigail the rest, beating AAA/Chadley less than half of the days and beating Abigail the rest, etc.   Or even making it so that a person doesn't need to play all of the days to get a silver trophy if they have mostly AAA/Chadley wins. It's a really harsh punishment to go from Gold Medal to participant by forgetting to play on the last day.  The event is 20 days long!   More levels of prizes/more nuance of prize levels could really help the event.
Years ago, the AAA Daily Dare scores seemed so out of reach! And now, they are usually under my highest score for the game prior to the event.  
Assignment 53 has been the hardest game for me to get the score so far! (Kou Jong took a while, but it was relatively low stress).  Kiko Racing was also tough, but I got into a groove eventually.

I agree that a gold medal should involve beating AAA/Chadley every day, but I think that there should be more levels of trophy - like in GMC.  Like the next level could be beating AAA/Chadley more than half of the days and Abigail the rest, beating AAA/Chadley less than half of the days and beating Abigail the rest, etc.   Or even making it so that a person doesn't need to play all of the days to get a silver trophy if they have mostly AAA/Chadley wins. It's a really harsh punishment to go from Gold Medal to participant by forgetting to play on the last day.  The event is 20 days long!   More levels of prizes/more nuance of prize levels could really help the event.
Years ago, the AAA Daily Dare scores seemed so out of reach! And now, they are usually under my highest score for the game prior to the event.  
Assignment 53 has been the hardest game for me to get the score so far! (Kou Jong took a while, but it was relatively low stress).  Kiko Racing was also tough, but I got into a groove eventually.

im starting to think having a silver trophy in this event is going to be the RARE one
most people will be getting gold due to the easy challenges (not me though)

Everything has been pretty easy for me so far, I think the most "difficult" one was Kou-Jong (which I'd say is actually more tedious than difficult). However I'm really dreading AAA's Revenge, since I have a whooping 18 as my high score (it used to be 10 but I'm practising, lol). Does anyone have any predictions as to what Chadley's score might be? I know the avatar score is 1,000 so Chadley's has to be lower than that, but I guess that for someone who hasn't scored over 20, any score they decide will be nearly impossible to achieve... Come to think of it, I might not even beat Abigail