How relevant are Capture the flags for SOC Analysts? And others trainings in my company

My company is having session on different topics including advisory emulation and all, for the first day we had CTFs, we didn't know what to do, we were asked to do MAD20 certifications but we just didn't find time to learn anything and write the tests and at the end they are going to give a demo on caldera Is my company giving us the right training, how relevant is it for a SOC Analyst... They are teaching how to investigate cloud related alerts, identifying gaps in data detection and training miter and all, these I get, but not sure how CTFs help us