Hurray, I'm not the only one that thinks this mode is utter garbage.
Hate the melee stance, hate the useless snowballs, hate the crappy lag.
PvP on peer-to-peer networking is awful. It should never have been part of an event. It never should have been allowed into the game in the first place, but I know people were clamoring years ago, "Aahhh, we want PvP!" even though the game was designed from day one to be co-op.