I guess its just frustration. Musicians love to win and are a competitive bunch, but most of all we want be understood and felt through our music. When you are judged and dont make the cut it hits your ego a bit.
But as you said, this is based on subjective expiriences of each judge. After these 3 weeks you can see a pattern of preferences for some of the judges and the balance is struck by diversifying those preferences. This week you and verbal-d had me as no 1. Picks while for the other two judges i wasnt even in their Top 10..
Am i supposed to try and understand them now?
"I have 2 first picks and im not even in the top 10-20 for you guys? How?"
Thats the beauty of music. We feel things differently. Its the ego you should fear not the opinions of a few judges.