As a new player and solo queuing, Just become champion and I have to say, I got the best type of team mates to get champion.
This was basically it:
Didn't jump in a hot zone with 10 other squads and dying in the first minute.
No gun fight was solo, every fight was a 3v3 which was just so refreshing as most times, there's that one dude who just runs off alone and tries to kill 3 people and dies and leaves.
Engaged in fights only if it blocked our path or was blocking where we went. A lot of people just run into distant crossfire seeing one person and gets killed because they have no idea where all 3 people are.
Getting to high ground before the ring closed. I can see why a lot of people are always perched on top of something in the map in end game.
I guess a lot of people don't want to become champion, but instead they seem to be going for number of kills most of the time.
P. S : Special thanks to the caustic main whose traps blinded his team mates at the end. I didn't know you can shoot the gas trap to turn it on.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/ewwsot/all_it_took_was_staying_together_and_only/