Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) – a competitive Apex Legends tournament – a Respawn developer has responded to the request for the shields to be changed in ranked matches.Initially, the gold/legendary knockdown shield was removed from both private matches and the ALGS as teams who were fully knocked with a gold shield would end up placing higher in the leaderboard than a team eliminated after them.Cloud 9’s Jamison ‘PVPX’ Moore tweeted about removing the gold shield in Ranked matches as well,