A steady week: 671 captions from 48 captioneers (682 from 47 last week), and 964 votes cast, up a little from 943.
Caption Champion
@Stephen_Bean is back on top with 115 votes from 59 captions, and he wrote the week’s top caption too.
@Al_Overy is second on 75 votes from just seven captions (more on that below), and @Dave_Bryan third on 67 from 25.
Top Captions
25 votes · @Stephen_Bean
22 votes · @Al_Overy
21 votes · @KT_A
Quality Award
@Al_Overy, with 10.71 votes per caption from seven captions. The only other time anyone has averaged that much from seven or more captions was Al himself, in March 2023, with exactly the same 75 votes from seven.
@Karen_McDonald is second with 2.85 from 13, and her two photo wins this week took her past 100 #1 captions in all. @John_Harrison is third with 2.75 from eight.
Most #1 Captions
@Al_Overy won five photos. @Lara_Holly, @Scrijjy_Doo, @Stephen_Bean, @Karen_McDonald and @John_Llamas won two each. Twelve different captioneers won photos this week.
Community Spirit
@James_Lennox was #3 finder, with 30 finder points from 7 discoveries, and placed 35 votes. @Kathleen_Ralph placed 46 and made more discoveries than anyone (29). And a welcome to James Martinez, three weeks in, who placed 38 votes across 23 different captioneers and finished with positive finder points.
Thanks, everyone, and good luck with the new week. The photos are already up.