Tyler:
Fact: You can not fly your airplane safely and successfully outside its limitations.
Doesn’t matter if it’s a highly modified STOL home built or a 747. Doesn’t matter if it’s in a STOL competition or, grabbing a $100 hamburger.
The nature of the mission does not add an extra few degrees to critical AOA.
Hence, the STOL competition is no factor. How the airplane is flown, is a factor.