The embarrassment factor, even if slight, has a splitting effect on the crowd. Some in the audience don't feel as comfortable cheering for someone with any amount of hesitation in their performance like that. Others absolutely feed on it, and cheer even louder. It's hard to say if it ultimately won the thing for her, but she does well enough.

Tenkohime, at least, appreciates beauty when she sees it, and feels no qualms offering Enty a cash prize for her participation.