While of­fi­cials of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) re­mained mum last evening on which song was in the lead for the Road March, based on what Guardian Me­dia heard at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, down­town Port-of-Spain and in San Fer­nan­do, Machel Mon­tano may have his twelfth ti­tle but was be­ing hot­ly pur­sued by Aaron “Voice” St Louis.

For the bands that crossed the judg­ing point in Port-of-Spain, Mon­tano’s En­core earned a eu­phor­ic re­sponse that oth­ers did not. Be­tween mid­day and five 5 pm, based on Guardian Me­dia’s count, a close sec­ond was Voice’s Cyah Be­have, with Ian “Bun­ji Gar­lin” Al­varez’s Still A Road Man a dis­tant third.

For the most part, those stomp­ing the stage yes­ter­day could not be both­ered, as they wined, chipped, drank and mis­be­haved them­selves across the stages.