I'm from Southwest and we really felt like we got butchered with our scoring too, I'm not complaining about not making finals but that was definitely better than 16th even our director was taken back with the 16th place we got after the run we had, and our scoring was quite inconsistent so that makes it harder to know exactly what happened, sometimes it feels like the judges just throw a random score down when they aren't sure, one judge has us at 9 musically and another had us at 20, while visually we had 13 and 23, just a little jarring.