I always thought that the game 'Champion' announced before the drop was the player with the highest KD, or the highest level player that was put in the game with you.
But yesterday I got a guy that was the champion who was level 4 with 2 kills. So I'm now wondering: Is there any logic for the game champion? Or does it take a random player and makes him the marked man for the game?
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From my personal in game experience it seems to be whoever had the best standing the round before. Placement seems to be the thing that decides it but sometimes there will be multiple people who won from the last round where it then checks for Points (Respawns, Kills, Revives, ect.)
This link has an answer from someone backing up what I said but also saying that Distance Traveled and Weapon Accuracy might come into play.
There isn't any official source saying what determines the champion squad so the only way to get an answer would be to experiment in game but that would still be hard with there being 60 players per game with no way to tell how the champion did last round.