I think an exception can be made in this case. These are the rules, as stated in the first post (which should be read before submitting anything).

Effort:

This is on a scale of 0 to 13 points.

0 is a crudely done drawing where stick figures and circles for Pokemon are abundant. (Please don't bother if you do that.)
2 is a colourless sketch of a Pokemon, period. That's it.
4 is a piece that took some time but was quickly submitted after a few minutes of work. (I usually gauge this by how the Pokemon look. Did it seem like you looked up what the Pokemon looks like? Was there a background? Etc...)
7 is basically what 4 is but with colors thrown in and a bit more effort.
13 is a piece where EVERYTHING in the drawing has been worked on; Pokemon, shading, brightness, colors, background, etc... And yes, you can get in between these values.
It may seem unfair that her picture was not graded with the full 13 points, but the fact is that there's a very clear rubric in the first post. In fact, according to this rubric, the drawing was up-graded because it was great. (7 points for colour, but there was no colour and she got 10.) That's not Dragon Master Mike's fault. He's just following the grading system that someone created years ago. xD

Perhaps it needs to be changed a bit, but the 10 effort points was due to the fact that there was no colour.