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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Car­ni­val 2014

How the Soca Monarch is decided

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One of the fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions about the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion is what is the judg­ing cri­te­ria? Peo­ple of­ten won­der how much crowd re­sponse ac­tu­al­ly mat­ters.

Here's the judg­ing cri­te­ria along with the list of judges and oth­er key bits of in­for­ma­tion about Fan­tas­tic Fri­day.

If you're on Twit­ter, you can use the of­fi­cial hash­tag, #ISM2014, and the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch Twit­ter han­dle @intl­so­ca­monarch.

judg­ing cri­te­ria

Dig­i­cel GROOVY SO­CA Monarch

Melody 25

Lyrics 25

Arrange­ment 25

Groove 10

Per­for­mance 10

Crowd re­sponse 5

Play Whe POW­ER SO­CA Monarch

Melody 25

Lyrics 20

Arrange­ment 20

Per­for­mance 20

Crowd re­sponse 10

ad­ju­di­ca­tors

Chief ad­ju­di­ca­tor: Josephine Tor­rel

Groovy cat­e­go­ry: Paul Massy, Mar­cia Mi­ran­da, Mark Not­ting­ham, Christo­pher Seon, Al­li­son Seep­aul

Pow­er cat­e­go­ry: Mar­va New­ton, Steve Sealy, Mar­vin George, Eve­lyn Cae­sar Munro, John Bar­ry

Tab­u­la­tors: Pa­t­ri­na Tor­rel and Tr­isha Layne


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