I can understand it from pats point of view , he wants an edge in the contest no one else has , but i can also see it from the other side , where everyone just wants a working application.

Its true that i am in the contest , hell i was doing some shots today , and wanted to finish off with a nice fly cam pan around the level , but if thats not possible for some people , then we can just do it in devmode , most of my old videos where done in Dev , and they are not all bad , so i am sure if this is something that will not be released until after the contest then everyone else can cope with dev mode.