"...or being the first to reach X amount of points."
This ! I've been waiting for this for ages. That's the thing that will clearly change all the striking/nograb mods for the best.
Forcing players to engage and reach a fixed amount of points would annihilate running ; you could still camp and play defensively but you don't get to avoid fighting anymore, being defensive is a totally legit playstyle as long as you get to actually fight.
It would be even cooler if there were a way to keep your points over the next set of fights until the fixed limit is reached. Like lets say the amount of points required to trigger the win is 100k, if no player reaches the amount of points during the first fight, it ends as a draw but both players keep their points over the next fight(s) and keep fighting until one of them gets 100k points.
I can't think of any better competition format for striking mod : that's fair, action intensive, no running involved etc...