In terms of playing, this map got old very fast and the gifts were more of a problem because so many gifts, spawn points so close to each other... this map begged for gift farming mods (like skial's autoqueue servers) and people were more interested in griefing than defeating Mono. Maybe mono's death should result in gifts given to the people who killed him (or caused most damage).
Once I learned at least some of the manor spawn points were, I was able to get the mask gifts... not with ease but I did manage to get ~20 in the course of a week. Of course I did play many, many hours.
I hope they do the gift thing again next year but hope they offer fewer different items. 27+ is too many.