Despite what you think, American judges aren't as bias towards Americans as just bias towards stars. Other countries are way worse when it comes to judging for their countrymen. America is huge. If one person is from California and another from New York, they really don't care about each other. They are on opposite sides of the country and are completely different.

So in reality, I'm more surprised that they scored it for brook since porter is supposed to be the next big thing.