If everyone who was there would go take a close look at all the winners at this year's Cirque show (all of which can be viewed on the CR site, I believe), it's pretty clear the judges did a first-class job of judging a very-high-quality field. Some of us might have quibbles about various individual choices, but it's hard to argue with the overall result.
It's a hard thing to do well, and it's clear to me the judges put a lot of thought into the winning bikes.
Charles Andrews SoCal
"The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them."
--Galileo Galilei
"There is no society in recorded history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. "
-- Sam Harris