lovecraft68
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I'm sorry but I disagree unless you have numbers to back it up. I know of at least four and possible one more that have been won from last minute entries this year alone.
Three by the same author BTW.
Valentines 2015
Summer loving 2015(two other stories were released as well, all last minute)
April Fools 2016
Further proving the fact this is deliberate is this author only entered contests in which they were eligible. Unlike most of the steady authors here who have won and enter all of them anyway.
The fourth which was this past nude day, I think was a sincere case of not finishing until the last minute, but when someone does it three times that's not circumstance, that's a plan. In fairness to them, this wasn't something they came up with, they're repeating a ploy made popular by someone else several years ago.
There were additional little tweaks in the first three that helped in addition to the last minute, let's avoid 75% of the trolling and only get one sweep, so there's no time for return trolls strategy.
As we both know there is more involved than just the 11:59 submission, but all we're talking about here is timing.
As for the other things, the best way to make a theory into fact is to put it to the test. We know whose done that and we know the results.