People have been saying for several years that NHC is not the place to go if you're looking for feedback but that message doesn't seem to be getting through.
I would agree that my understanding is that national is more of an arena for experienced brewers to compete for medals, but people also look at the score as a yardstick on their brewing execution. If this is the first year they dropped giving a score, somebody needs to rethink that decision. Entering 3 beers and getting 42, 35 and 31 would mean something...vs "2/4". Many people did not get stars marked (or got confusing marks on the stars) and got very limited comments. The feedback on @khannon example seems well done.