Whatever, the judges can come in, criticize the criticism. That's within their rights.
Hell, everyone can get together and have one big cluster ---fudgesicle--- for all that it matters.
That's circle jerk. Or Roundhouse ---fudgesicle---, maybe.
I think one or more of the mamey judges aren't impartial. I forget which one(s). And he/they didn't hide their preferences. The issue is said preferences had a hand in guiding judgement of the entries.
That could be me.
No. It wasn't you who said they didn't like LED eye candy, so they voted no because of that. MC I think. Or like the Metroid bar top. I never even played that game and know next to nothing about it - but I thought it was pretty cool. OKAY, IT WAS PURPLE - I'm just a little biased. Not really, because for example I didn't go for the colors of McCoy's cab, and I was in the middle about the black with no side art, but the build impressed me.