It was billed as the clash of the is­lands.

And when the re­sults were an­nounced ear­ly this morn­ing Grena­da came out on top.

Grena­di­an So­ca artiste Mr Kil­la (Hol­lice Mapp) claimed the mil­lion-dol­lar ti­tle of this year's In­ter­na­tion­al Pow­er So­ca Monarch. His coun­try­man Mr Legz (Hec­tor Thomas) placed third in the Pow­er So­ca cat­e­go­ry.

Grena­da al­so fea­tured in the In­ter­na­tion­al Groovy So­ca Monarch, with V'ghn (Je­vaugh John) plac­ing third.

Those three were among five acts from Grena­da to par­tic­i­pate in the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.

The oth­er mem­bers of the Grena­da con­tin­gent Lil Nat­ty and Thun­da (Din­gaan Hen­ry and Nyelon Williams) and Man­del­la linkz al­so gave cred­i­ble per­for­mances.

T&T, which had the most rep­re­sen­ta­tives in the com­pe­ti­tion and the home field ad­van­tage, man­aged to place sec­ond in the Pow­er So­ca cat­e­go­ry with vet­er­an Neil "Iw­er" George.

Swap­pi (Mar­vin Davis) won the In­ter­na­tion­al Groovy So­ca Monarch ti­tle and the $500,000 prize.

St Lu­cia al­so fea­tured in the win­ners' row with Ted­dyson John plac­ing sec­ond in the Groovy cat­e­go­ry.

The In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion was yes­ter­day held in its first year un­der the chair­man­ship of Fayann Lyons-Al­varez.

It was a fan­tas­tic first show­ing.

The show be­gan 90 min­utes lat­er than an­tic­i­pat­ed but moved smooth­ly once it got start­ed.

It be­gan with a trib­ute to icon Shad­ow (Win­ston Bai­ley) who passed away last year.

Neval Chate­lal and Nishard Mayhroo per­formed their song Fyah for Change which won them the Chut­ney So­ca Monarch ti­tle a cou­ple of weeks ago.

The Pro­duc­ers Pick cat­e­go­ry was the first com­pet­i­tive as­pect of the show to take place.

Lin­coln won that cat­e­go­ry with his song You Bad Too.

Then the Groovy So­ca cat­e­go­ry start­ed.

Swap­pi's win­ning per­for­mance was a lov­ing trib­ute to Shad­ow.

He and his dancers wore all-black out­fits as­so­ci­at­ed with the Shad­ow.

Fol­low­ing the Groovy cat­e­go­ry, how­ev­er, a young man climbed the So­ca Monarch stage to tell host Sun­ny Bling (Ker­ron Sealy) that peo­ple were pick­ing pock­ets and steal­ing phones.

One of his friends was a vic­tim, he said.

Af­ter that warn­ing, it was lat­er an­nounced that an­oth­er pa­tron had lost two iPhones and was will­ing to pay $3,000 on the spot for their re­turn.

The Pow­er So­ca cat­e­go­ry on­ly re­al­ly came alive when con­tes­tant num­ber six, Mr Kil­la touched the stage.

And as has be­come the norm when Mr Kil­la's song Run Wid It was played through­out the sea­son the crowd were worked in­to a fren­zy.

Among the things that were lift­ed up through the crowd was a "cas­ket", a toi­let bowl, and an in­flat­able dol­phin.

Mr Kil­la end­ed his per­for­mance by board­ing a makeshift boat that was lift­ed through the crowd be­fore it re­turned to stage.

Iw­er who be­fore the com­pe­ti­tion was per­ceived as Mr Kil­la's on­ly re­al threat to the ti­tle per­formed af­ter him.

Iw­er, dressed as Aqua­man, al­so worked the crowd in­to a fren­zy as they were splashed with wa­ter.

Mr Legz per­formed af­ter Iw­er, and en­hanced his per­for­mance by bring­ing out Denise Bel­fon.

Mr Kil­la, Iw­er and Mr Legz were the last three Pow­er So­ca com­peti­tors.

And the re­sults placed them in the same or­der they com­pet­ed.

The last three Pow­er So­ca com­peti­tors placed one, two and three.

Around 3.30 am the re­sults were an­nounced.

Swap­pi was the on­ly one of the win­ners not present.

The Grena­da con­tin­gent cel­e­brat­ed with Mr Kil­la.

Nu­mer­ous Grena­da flags were seen wav­ing in the crowd.