Haha, I'm far from a sensei at this point. I lost a great deal of my mojo after Vanilla. It was fun though man. Akira lives on even without me or Galen around.
Generally not indeed. I'll rarely get a 4 and typically a 3, but even then it's subject to drop to 2 during the actual match. I only ever had 5 bars with one guy, and that was subject to drop to 1 during actual matches. Sad.