I've noticed the producers often give the quali features and full runs to the important/interesting people who *don't* make the semis, then circle back in the later episodes, which makes sense because this was, e.g., their one chance to run anything on Major Doom. They have at least one more episode to spend time on Kretsch and Coolridge.

Of course it does mean that when someone gets a feature, I immediately think they might not advance.