Scandal in Apex Legends: pro-players from big teams caught datamining maps

A major scandal is gaining momentum in the Apex Legends professional community. A number of people in the scene and the community have found out that some professional players from big teams, including TSM, are datamining maps to determine where certain zones end, and also hiring special people for this. As a result, players gain a competitive advantage by knowing in advance where the end zone will stop.

It all started with DROPPED from Spacestation Gaming and sweetdreams from NRG Esports, who talked during a live stream about how some of the analysts and coaches on the scene are accessing game files to determine the end zones.

Zone datamining is supposedly a workflow in Apex Legends and I think it should be talked about and made more publicly known. As it has been explained, basically you can find in the game code in each update which certain zones can and cannot appear. It's too much of an advantage for the teams that have access to it and the other teams don't even know what it is.

First, the TSM team fell under the accusations. At the same time, multiple champions admitted that they used data-mined zone information after Raven went to stream NRG Esports star Sweet.

However, ImperialHal followed up by tweeting about several other teams supposedly involved in datamining. In particular, he blamed Alliance, FURIA, FaZe Clan and Team Liquid.

However, actual evidence that teams are using datamining for profit has not actually been presented publicly. And now the next step is up to EA, which can dot all this dispute.

There are provisions in the ALGS rulebook prohibiting access to and manipulation of the game, which are clearly designed to discourage any form of cheating. However, it is unclear whether the detection of forbidden zones in public files is some kind of violation of these rules. In any case, the players expect the organizers to make a decision on this issue in the near future.