I don't think it was too far to assume when your response to my saying I didn't want to do anything that might result in fatalities was basically "Why do you care about that when it would let us win."

Secondly, your plan assumes highly trained, disciplined and experienced superheroes who were specifically selected both for this exercise and to train the people participating in it in the future would fall for what's nearly the oldest trick in the book and wouldn't just say, stop when you tried to get them to hit each other or literally anything else.