You may not believe this, but I entered and won second* in an acro growing contest earlier this year that was held by a Niagara area group. The asterisk is because there were only three of us with a living frag at the end, but that was part of the challenge. I believe the colony that was chopped up wasn't looking so hot before hand, and I made sure I was the first one to pick up a frag.
I think for this to work, we need a relatively fast growing coral (birds of paradise, ponape birdsnest, forest fire digi) and a period of 3-5 months.