The phrase "an automatic winner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that is guaranteed to succeed or win without any doubt.
Example: "With her impressive track record and skills, she is truly an automatic winner in this competition."
Alternatives: "a guaranteed success" or "a sure thing".
Nor is every project an automatic winner.
That's not to say, though, that same-sex marriage would now be an automatic winner at the ballot box.
But let's be honest ― her red carpet look has already made her an automatic winner. .
If this strategy is truly an automatic winner, you might ask, why doesn't everyone use it?
He described Brooklyn as quite low key, about somebody very ordinary and not a book that would be considered as an automatic prize winner.
I still put myself in the category of the trier, not the automatic winner - just like when I was playing basketball on the street and picking the worst players to make a game of it.
The move recalled especially dire previous seasons, as when "Sunset Boulevard" was the lone nominee — and hence the automatic winner — in 1995, or in 1989, when the category was eliminated entirely.
At this point, their only hope is to stop Trump from getting 1,237 delegates, the magic number that would make him the automatic winner.
An appeal to give up the pursuit of wealth isn't an automatic vote-winner.
And the late-night programs, led by "The Tonight Show," that have been a perennial source of strength for NBC are no longer the automatic winners against their CBS competition.
"It may be that the fiscal crisis will finally move some of these ideas over the finish line," said Lori Grange, a senior officer at the Pew Center on the States, a nonpartisan research group, "but it's also a testament to how tough some of these proposals are that even in this climate they aren't automatic winners".
