I was there and judged. I'd guess that we had as many or more high-ranking judges as any other site-I personally judged with two national judges,hung out with a Master judge between sessions, and judged at a table with Gary Glass so I'm pretty confident you can trust the results as much as(or probably more than) the other sites.
True enough that things could have happened in a more timely manner but we basically did at one location, mostly in one day, what most of the other centers did over the course of several days, at several sites. The folks at Alewife were very generous in letting us use their site and it's a great bar but due to size limitations, etc not ideal for comps (but few places here are).
As to your comment about the "level of incompetence," I think the issues have less to do with "incompetence" and more to do with two things unique to NYC (as opposed to the other judging centers). First, space here is at a premium, much more so than any other place in the country. There are an awful lot of people here who live in glorified walk-in closets and the situation is no different for businesses. A business with limited space (read ALL businesses in the city) that VOLUNTEERS to accept a huge number of deliveries of homebrews, the delivery day of which it has no control, is absolutely justified in asking for those packages be redelivered another day if they've just received a load of product that they actually make money on (and thus can't accommodate the homebrew at that moment) or are too busy actually doing business to deal with a massive homebrew delivery at that moment.
The second thing unique to NYC (and a lot of people aren't going to like hearing this one but it IS true) is that, in general, most folks here are a lot busier than folks elsewhere. I was born and raised in TX, graduated from UT, have lived in and visited plenty of other cities and I can tell you that the average person in NYC has a lot more going on than the majority of folks other places. I know almost no one up here who has time to sit around and watch tv, etc. yet some of these same people have VOLUNTEERED to take on, in what little spare time they have, an enormous administrative task in processing all of the paperwork, score sheets, etc that goes along with the NHC.
Is three weeks a while to wait? Sure. And it's great that some folks were able to get their results back from other sites so quickly. However, I'd like to point out that we're still a full week away from the date that is clearly stated on the registration site as a deadline for results so, really, your complaints are utterly baseless.
I'd suggest that if you don't appreciate the hours and days and weeks and months of work that VOLUNTEERS put into this competition then don't enter.
I had to ask since you wrote 'contaminated'. 
