I support skiing being different.  I support the freedom to do all manners of things, no matter what they are.  Do I like the badass, controversial stuff?   Sure.   However, that is irrelevant to this situation.
The Pilot Project is set up to be a mixture of the community's voice, and a small panel of judges balanced between Epic Planks, Newschoolers and the previous year's winner.   This means that it is not my decision, but rather a decision of all of those people.   This is the Pilot Project, and it is awesome, but only one part of the whole puzzle.
I will be honest with you, I think you're being overly critical of Westward.   I actually quite like it, though it isn't 'badass and hardcore' they do a great job telling a story and mixing in some development of characters and a small storyline.   I have been noticing that series that do more of this seem to be attracting attention.   They're a good fit for Epic Planks as a sponsor, who were very happy with the performance of Family Vacation.
I would also like to question your logic that this means I don't support 'badass' stuff.   I mean who do you think signed the contract for 4bi9 house?
What we're building at NSTV must have diversity to be interesting.   So one by one as the program expands, we reach further and further to get producers or series that are a good fit.
What I'd be curious to hear is what part of you thought exploding like this was a good idea?   I mean for christ's sake, this is one contest at the very start of the year.   It has a specific set of rules, and we follow them.   You didn't win.   We have an entire season of NSTV to plan, and I'll be dead honest with you anyone that performs well in any contest we do gets to the top of our list to become a supported series.    So until this post, your series was really on my radar as something that I wanted NS to work with.   Any series that is popular has a chance of being picked up - and we plan to pick up many more over time.   Producers just have to keep working on promoting themselves to us, and to the newschoolers community as a whole.
If you're dead set on leaving in a hissy fit, then I'm afraid I'd agree you should go.   I'd encourage you not to though, and instead re-think your actions and keep making a good web series.   There's a market for these, and the ones that stay popular are going to go places.