Simulated Samurai also get more bonuses than players that are not posted for on monday.
Realistically, I have very little inkling of what your skill levels are. I'm not one of your previous GMs, and I'm not in your head understanding your mental image of your character as you see it. In general, anyone whom posted gave me an impression of competency - though likely my impression is not as L33T as some of you would hope.
You are also not used to my kind of arbitration, I'd surmise. Though again, I'd point out that defeating you with simulated samurai was not a punishment for doing anything wrong (aside from not posting). I'd be the first to claim it's not a particularily fair situation to be in.
I'm using "Apex predators" against you - which is kind of a highly unfair skill level to bestow upon anyone. Part of this is, however, following Nick's lead. He wanted a simulation against Ketsurui Samurai. I'm indulging that. Kotori, though, had other ideas and she had her reasons for thinking differently. That doesn't mean we can't keep going with this idea - in the long run Nick's idea might be the best one. But it has consequences.
You want your actions to have consequences, right?
In the end, the training is essentially to have your characters acclimate to each other as a team, for your roleplayers to build some team chemistry, for me to gauge just how your characters perform under adversity, for you guys to get used to me, and for you to prepare for fighting what will be a challenging opponent later once you get to them.