It might be the closest thing fans will get to the klopse carnival this year, however the historic virtual Jive Culture Shock competition ended on a sour note over the weekend.
The grand finale of the first ever online Klopse and Malay Choir event, which was directed by Loukmaan Adams, took place at the Artscape Theatre on Saturday, but not everyone was happy with the results.
Mense dragged the show on their Facebook page about incorrect results posted on the live feeds and questioned why a winner wasn’t named.
One of the four producers of Culture Shock, Ayesha Anthony, has since apologised for the “mistake and typing error” of the results they released to the public.
The Jive Culture Shock - Jingles and Karinkles Online competition was streamed weekly and the series included story inserts, guest judges, viewer videos, and the competition between the teams battling it out to reach the finale.
A panel of judges, as well as the viewers, decided the winner from each episode by way of an online voting ballot.
The judges included Armien Vardien, Omar Adams, Marc Lottering and David Kramer among others.
Monday there was confusion about which team had won the R25 000 grand prize, after Alchemy Cultural Entertainers and Hats for Africa PSV had tied for first place.
Mense took to the Oddball Concept Cultural Facebook page to ask questions.
Junaid Boltman asked: “So who won the R25k?”
Shameer Samuels suggested: “If it was a ‘tie’ then please add all the votes throughout the season for both teams and you will have your overall winner. Or don’t you guys want a certain team to carry the title they so rightfully deserve?”
Loukmaan says he doesn’t know where the confusion came in: “The prize for each item was R5000, which in total comes to R25 000.
“Maybe the public wasn’t aware of this, but the team captains knew. We obviously couldn’t have a meeting with all 80 audience members about this.”
The categories were: Nederlandse Liedjie, Afrikaanse Moppie, Junior Solo and English Comic.
With regards to the incorrect scores on the live feed, she said this was human error and apologised.
In addition, judges had 10% voting power during the episodes, but in the final they had 30%, which may have confused some audience members.
Ayesha says two teams also dropped out before the finale, which influenced the scoring.
“One team withdrew because of not being able to attend all Finale Shoot days and dropped out after winning their episode.
“The other team withdrew as they felt the model designed to engage the audience for their input was not what they had signed up for and felt it was negatively going to impact their participation, they dropped out after losing their episode.”
According to the official results, Nederlands Liedjie winner was Alchemy Cultural Entertainers, who also took Afrikaans Moppie and English Comic.
Hats for Africa PSV were the Junior Solo winners.