I'm pretty sure they even half said in the design intentions during liveletters prior to CC release that "just making kills for the sake of kills don't necessarily win games in this mode", implying heavily that they didn't want the mode to only be focused on pure pvp fight. I kinda feel that's not a goal that's been achieved in the new mode either way, and it would be probably as well suited to a simple TDM mode, but they have been shying away from that kind of pvp since the very beginning except in feast/the fold.