I recall defeating Stiletto and Jippo in that level some while back, and more recently, Salamander smacked me around a bit in a duel there. Sal broke my spirit. Then I owned Sal in checkers and refused a rematch (revenge is sweet). Anyway, the level is probably more biased towards one team or something; I can't tell for sure. And Stiletto is probably better now, assuming he still doesn't take all of the slow routes, and I rubbed off some of my tactics to Jippo. At least that's what I think.