Busier all round this week: 712 captions from 44 captioneers (up from 680), and the voting picked up even more. 1,097 votes landed, up 16% on last week and back over the thousand mark.
Caption Champion
@Stephen_Bean finishes top again, on 106 votes from 54 captions.
@C_CaMel takes 2nd on 88, and was busy at the other end too: he was the week’s #3 finder, with 25 finder points from 11 discoveries.
@Karen_McDonald rounds out the top three on 83, and it was quite a week for her. She wrote the site’s top caption (below), placed the third-most votes on the site (65), and along the way passed 7,000 career caption votes.
Top Captions
24 votes · @Karen_McDonald (her tenth week holding the site’s top caption)
22 votes · @Tony_S
22 votes · @Al_Overy
Quality Award
@Mark_England, 5.08 votes per caption over 12 captions. That’s top of the quality table for the second week running, and it put him 5th on the leaderboard from only 12 captions.
Also sharp: @Al_Overy (3.95 from 20, 4th overall, plus one of the top three captions above) and @KT_A (3.55 from 11).
Most #1 Captions
No runaway this week. There’s a six-way tie on two wins each: @Ian_Skelding, @Tony_S, @James_Lennox, @John_Harrison, @Al_Overy and @Stephen_Bean. Altogether 15 different captioneers won the 21 photos that closed this week.
September Prize
The September £50 goes to @James_Lennox for the caption that topped the votes in the week ending 20 September:
Congratulations, James, and thank you to everyone who chips in to the prize pot.
Community Spirit
@Karyn_Harrison placed 44 votes and was the week’s #2 finder, with 36 finder points from 15 discoveries. She’s consistently first to the good ones.
Thanks, everyone, for a lively week. The new week’s photos are already up. See you on the scoreboard.