I don't care so much about ranking (who won) but the rates themselves (how well was my entry receive)... ;)
A jam like this one is not so much about "winning" but about getting feedback, after all...
This was my first jam, and I agree, the feedback was super helpful, giving me ideas on what to fix to make the game decent and hopefully fun. It definitely beats coding in a vacuum. Also just the pressure to get a complete game done quickly is great. Since this isn't my job, I have a lot of games that I've started that just sit when life interrupts. I'll have to rethink how I approach some of those.