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2010 saw over 300 contestants in the preliminary round of competition for the coveted crowns.
From 43 Semifinalists for the International Soca Monarch, (Power) dubbed this year the Blackberry International Soca Monarch, 13 made it to the finals.
For the 2010 International Groovy Soca Monarch, aka Play Whe Groovy Soca Monarch, 39 made it to the semi-final round and from there 12 won a spot in the finals to be joined by the winner of Synergy Soca Star.
The following were the contenders for the International Soca Monarch finals on Fantastic Friday, held on Friday 12 February, 2010 at the Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Power soca category finalists (in order of their scheduled performance position).
’Ready or Not’ Daddy Chess (Dominica)
’Soca Rebel'Tian Winter
'Template’ Sugar Jigga TC
’Police’ Shal Marshall & Screws
’The Beast Let Go’ Skinny Fabulous
’Swing It Away’ Mr Killa
’Wicked Jab’ Tallpree
’I Pay Fuh Dis’ Farmer Nappy
Fay Ann Lyons (defending Champion) 'True Lies'
’Party Hard’ Iwer George
'Palance' Blaze & JW
'Zombie' Blaxx
’While U Can’ KMC and Ronnie McIntosh
Groovy Soca category finalists (in scheduled performance order)
’Bawl Out’ Ainsley King
’Survivor’ Nnika Francis
'Streets of Trinidad' Metro
’Barman’ Rikki Jai
’Wuk It’ Patrice Roberts
'Drifin' Mr. Chucky
’Murdah’ Shurwayne Winchester
"Start Winin'" Fay Ann Lyons (Defending Groovy Soca Monarch)
’Pavement’ Kerwin Du Bois and Farmer Nappy
’Hot Sun and Rhythm’ TC
’Nah Bad Talk Man’ KMC
’More Water’ Zoelah
'Careful’ Lil Bitts
A new feature was added to the 2010 International Soca Monarch - text voting. Fans could text the relevant code to 7622 in the Caribbean and 78247 in US & Canada to vote for their favorite Artiste - text voting accounted for 35% of the artiste's final score. Text messaging platforms: TSTT - Trinidad and Tobago, Lime - Caribbean, All major carriers - USA & Canada.
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