Just two days be­fore the semi­fi­nal round of the Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­on takes place live in San Fer­nan­do, it was an­nounced that award-win­ning so­ca artiste Iw­er George has ex­it­ed the com­pe­ti­tion.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the or­gan­is­ers of the new so­ca con­test said George opt­ed not to give a spe­cif­ic rea­son for his with­draw­al.

Ef­forts by Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day to speak with George about his de­ci­sion to leave the com­pe­ti­tion were un­suc­cess­ful.

The or­gan­is­ers, in the state­ment, said they re­spect­ed George’s de­ci­sion to step away from the com­pe­ti­tion and thanked him for his par­tic­i­pa­tion. They said with his de­par­ture, Tril­la-G from Do­mini­ca, with his hit song Some­one Else (Lit­tle­boy ft Quan & Tril­la-G) has ac­cept­ed the op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­claim their po­si­tion in the com­pe­ti­tion, set­ting the stage for an “elec­tri­fy­ing” semi­fi­nal round, ac­cord­ing to or­gan­is­ers. Tril­la-G al­so with­drew from the con­test.

Ear­li­er this week, Kern Joseph, known as Trinidad Kil­la, al­so had to ex­it the com­pe­ti­tion af­ter his idea to per­form vir­tu­al­ly dur­ing the semi­fi­nal of the Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­on (USC) com­pe­ti­tion was re­ject­ed by the event’s or­gan­is­ers.

They said the rules of the com­pe­ti­tion on­ly al­lowed for video sub­mis­sions and vir­tu­al per­for­mances dur­ing the au­di­tion phase but con­tes­tants had to be present for the semi­fi­nals and fi­nals.

Joseph is out of the coun­try. He had planned to do a holo­gram per­for­mance.

Mean­while, or­gan­is­ers re­vealed that Am­ri­ka Mutroo has been se­lect­ed as a “Wild Card” en­trant, earn­ing a spot in the semi­fi­nals af­ter over­whelm­ing fan sup­port and will per­form in po­si­tion num­ber one on Sun­day.

The Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­on will re­ceive a $1 mil­lion prize.