They're just artificial game lengthener that waste time between matches and it's just more salt in the woound when you sweat out top of the leaderboard and then get commended by the players that say lost 15 motes or didn't capture points in iron banner. I mean if the system was even worth it and even thought out enough to have commendations like best dressed or something then sure whatever, but in this iteration it's just another awful system all around.