All of the above. I've seen quilts do well at one show and bomb out at another. Sometimes the venue is wrong for the quilt. A gorgeous Balto ore Album quilt was wrong for an machine quilters expo. So if you put art or more modern quilts is a small town show, I would suspect wrong place for them. Fix the binding and reenter at another place and then see what happens. If you made it thru one round, keep going. Tell yourself you have talent and keep going forward.