11 Soca Monarch finalists named Wednesday 3 February 2021 Dexter "Blaxx" Stewart in performance at the 2019 Dimanche Gras show at Queen's Park Savannah. Blaxx has registered to compete in The Monarch, a virtual competition replacing the International Soca Monarch for 2021 owing to the covid19 pandemica. File photo - ELEVEN finalists for The Monarch contest have been named and will be competing for $300,000 in cash and prizes on February 12. The 11 rose to the top out of some 60 entrants in the renamed International Soca Monarch. The winner will not be recorded as one of the country's Soca Monarch winners but will have the perk of automatically qualifying for the 2022 Soca Monarch finals. Initially there were supposed to be ten finalists, but there was a tie and the organisers extended the number to include the additional winner. Newsday was not told who tied.