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How Often Do You Place?

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Topic: How Often Do You Place?

Posted By: andrelb
Subject: How Often Do You Place?
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2026 at 8:48pm

Just curious, for those who have done several of these NYC Midnight competitions, how often would you say you place and move onto the next round?

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Posted By: snuffles
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2026 at 8:08am

After about three years, this is my third time advancing

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Posted By: PeterPK
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2026 at 7:53pm

I've entered 3 times and advanced to Round 2 twice (including today). Never made it past Round 2 (though here's hoping for this one!)

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Posted By: Reasonably_Crazy
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2026 at 7:33pm

I just went back and looked over all my results. I've done 11 contests off-and-on since 2016, and advanced in 9 of them. The only times I didn't make it to at least the second round (or third in Flash Fiction, in which everyone did the first two rounds until recently) were in the 100 word microfiction contests.

If it matters, I'm a high school English teacher, so I've had a lot of education when it comes to writing & literature. I'm not a published writer by any means (unless you count my high school fanfiction.net account, which I wouldn't).

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Posted By: Rhenn
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2026 at 12:38pm

I've entered six 250MF's and one 100MF.

Went nowhere in the 100.

Six placements in the 250 with one first place (!), and two HM's. Made it into the finals twice, and got an HM last year for my story, Intaglio. (It was pretty darn exciting to see my name listed!)

Not a professional writer in any way.

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Posted By: anthonyh92
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2026 at 11:56pm

Oo really interesting question. I've had a generally bittersweet experience with NYC Midnight.

Out of 8 challenges, I advanced to round two in 5 of them, with HMs for 2 of the remaining 3. So in that sense, there's only been 1 of 8 which went absolutely nowhere in terms of placement.

That said, I'm yet to crack the final round for ANY of the challenges 😬 And, what's more, have never yet attained even a HM for my round two entries 😂 I don't know if it's because it's a smaller, higher quality pool I'm up against? Or stricter marking. Or just bad luck. But it'll be a good day when I finally see my name on that round two leaderboard 🏆