Caption Awards are awarded to the band (or bands) that presented an outstanding performance in a specific category. Essentially, each judge can select a band or bands that was the most outstanding for the category which they were judging (see below for judges and captions). For example, a Music Judge can choose which band had the best Music performance of the event. They can award a few Caption Awards (often just called ‘Captions’), or none at all, at their discretion. There is no direct correlation to the score from that judge. At an early-season show, a band may receive ‘Good’ scores, but also receive Captions. This means in that event, that band (or bands) was the outstanding performers of the day in that caption.
Note: These Captions can be awarded even in a non-competitive, Festival event. So, in the normal human nature to be competitive, it is often possible to guess at who had the best score of the day, even when bands get the same Rating. If 6 bands received Superior ratings, but one of them received 4 or 5 Captions while the others did not, then you might presume which band ‘won’ the ‘non-competitive’ event. In reality, this may not always be true, as the judges and captions are weighted differently, and the final math may not be as obvious as it seems!