it teaches boys that it's not shameful to lose against a girl and it teaches girls that they can beat the boys if they try. both of these things undo the remnant christian cultural programming which is proving very stubborn and hard to abolish.
it also teaches both boys and girls to work together in ways that transcend gender segregation, by building alliances with the opposite gender to defeat members of their own gender. this undoes the damaging gender war mentality constantly enforced by the culture and media.
that's an ideal, it's equality, and recent regressive policies are showing that it's going to be necessary to enforce that kind of equality through aggressive brown v board style mixing because the culture is too ignorant and too stupid to get there on it's own.