Con­grat­u­la­tions are due to Pow­er So­ca Monarch, Machel Mon­tano, mak­ing a re­turn to this stage af­ter 16 years and Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller, win­ning his first Groovy So­ca Monarch ti­tle. As a broad­cast, there were few hic­cups but much to con­sid­er in the way the show was pre­sent­ed for a view­ing au­di­ence which did not have the ad­van­tage of the con­sid­er­able crowd in­ter­ac­tion and en­gage­ment to tide them over long paus­es like the one that bridged the Groovy So­ca Monarch and Pow­er So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tions. As a show, though, this year's In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion re­ward­ed its au­di­ence with a de­fin­i­tive ac­count­ing of all that was best in so­ca for 2011. Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed is proud to have been as­so­ci­at­ed with this cul­tur­al as­say­ing of the most pop­u­lar mu­sic in Trinidad and To­ba­go's Car­ni­val and to have done its part in bring­ing this unique and still evolv­ing form of lo­cal cre­ative ex­pres­sion to the wider world.