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    Posted: 02 Dec 2022 at 10:12am
Do writers ever get the same genre in different rounds of a contest? For example, drawing Sci-Fi in both R1 and R2 (or R3) of the Short Story competition? 

I've only been at this for a year, but it has yet to happen to me. I know the groups are randomly assigned, but I wondered if some magical NYCM algorithm prevented writers from being assigned the same genre twice in the same contest. 
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I can't find the link to the second round... any chance you could help?
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Group placement is random, so yes, it can happen. The only time you're guaranteed to have a different genre is between challenges one and two in the competitions where everyone writes twice (that's Flash Fiction and one of the screenwriting comps).

@douglas, are you talking about the Rhyming Competition? If you've qualified for round two you should have had an email with the link. But the assignments are here - https://www.nycmidnight.com/rsc/2022-2ndroundassignments

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Originally posted by theinquisitor theinquisitor wrote:

Group placement is random, so yes, it can happen. The only time you're guaranteed to have a different genre is between challenges one and two in the competitions where everyone writes twice (that's Flash Fiction and one of the screenwriting comps).
Ah. Okay. I thought we were guaranteed non-repeats in R1 & R2 Flash and Short SW, but I wasn't sure about the others. I know some people have lamented being on genre streaks, but I couldn't recall anyone saying it had happened to them within the same contest. 


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