Sweet sauce is its own lane and plenty of teams have built a name on it, so one judge telling you to go vinegar doesn't mean the whole recipe is broke. What matters more is whether that one card was an outlier or a pattern, because a single 7th place finish out of 32 isn't enough data to blow up your whole thing. If you look back at your last few contests and sweet keeps showing up as the knock, then yeah, maybe dial the brown sugar back a touch and add some heat or acid to balance it instead of throwing out the base. But if this is the first time anyone said it, I'd cook your ribs one more time and let the next table decide before you change who you are. Chasing every scorecard is how you end up with a sauce that tastes like nothing and pleases nobody, including you.