Is there anyone else that not only is having their Trinkets not pop up and also have played a lot and not seen a single event case, or any kind of christmas card? Because myself i havent seen anything for event cases, i have a buddy that has gotten 3 of them in one day. Sadly all i ever get from cases is lead cards and have to trade up to anything else i really want. i think ive gotten maybe 1 gold ever, 2 silver, and a few bronze cards but 99% of the time its just lead cards.
Event cases and Cases in general..
That’s RNG, mate. Sometimes it’ll give you the world, the other times it’ll knock you out and spit on you.
Dunno about the Trinkets.
There are a few bugs with the trinkets. For some people they show up and for others they don’t. But don’t be afraid, the game tracks your actual playtime so you’ll get your trinket as soon as they’ve sorted out the bugs. 
As for the RNG, I know what you’re feeling. I’ve never gotten a CW event case and not a single Christmas case Event until now. I was lucky enough to get 1 CW card via a normal case but that’s about it (never a single cobalt or gold card). 3 silvers and about 7 or 8 bronze cards out of the 250+ cases that I’ve opened.
It’s RNG sometimes you’re lucky and sometimes you just have bad luck.
I opened 1167 normal cases at the CW event and played 109 games during the meltdown.
And now I’m just sitting here and chuckling if people say they didn’t see any event cards.
i got 2 event cases and a event loudout from a normal case so far. i got my lantern, 20 more hours and i will be rocking a snowman on my gun.
It’s RNG and grinding.
Be nice if the playtime augmented the RNG, like every hour you play they add 1% to the rng for a special loadout and reset it back if you get one.
A scaling probability based on time with a reset would be the best of both worlds: people with high play time would more or less be guaranteed a drop eventually but those who don’t invest as much time could still get lucky.
I opened so many cases for both events and the best I have gotten is a couple of leads NEXT to the event loadouts