The game is pretty miserable to play all round at the moment but at least it's not like two years ago at Christmas when one of the Europe servers was broken for 3 weeks and half the matches were completely unplayable with crazy rubber banding for all 5 players, and the other half were Knights making the game last for 45 minutes by 3 genning!

the mistletoes are bugged? in what way?

I played for around 4 1/2 hrs yesterday and in that time only 2 matches actually had everyone using either the mistletoe or BPS or some kind of BP offering what benefits everyone. Every other match consisted of Map offerings (Eyrie, RPD, Badham were the most commonly used), Spawn hooks further away, hatch spawn at main building and purple mist as well as commonly used Iridescent syringe, brand new parts all with decked out full meta builds. Easily yesterday is the most sweatiest I have seen this game playout in a LONG time, ive come across my fair share of sweat here and there but back to back to back to back no. What I find strange is apparently there is no MMR linked to Event modes so my question is over the course of nearly 5 hrs how did nearly all my matches feel like comp tryouts?

The whole event is trash, the main gimmick of moving snowman doesn't even work due to how laggy they are, otherwise just reused event from last year, pocket snowman sounded fun but you don't get much use of them at all due to how people play. Literally the only good part are the snowskulls.

The new map is cool but you have like a 1% chance of getting it, playing the event every day and got it like thrice.