Hosted lobbies
The schedule.
A hosted lobby is a scheduled event with a field, scored by where you finish. Placements are mutually exclusive — only one entrant can be first — so the field checks itself rather than resting on two people who disagree.
Nothing is scheduled
No lobby has been scheduled yet. Nothing is hidden and nothing is being withheld — this page reads the schedule directly, and the schedule is empty.
Apex Legends is in the catalogue, on PlayStation, Xbox and PC. What is not built yet is entering a lobby and reporting a placement — so a lobby scheduled today would be one nobody could join. It will appear here when that is no longer true, and not before.
The head-to-head board works now. Open a contest if you would rather not wait.
How a placement is settled
Corroborated
You say you were fifth, and four other entrants have claimed first through fourth uncontested. The arithmetic confirms it and it settles. Nobody read a screenshot.
Unclaimed above you
Somebody silent may have finished higher. That is the one-sided case, so it takes the one-sided answer: evidence is required and a response window runs.
Contradicted
Two entrants claim the same place. It opens a dispute — an evidence window, one extension each, and a person decides.
Placements are mutually exclusive: only one entrant can be first. That is what makes a field its own cross-check, and it is why a lobby needs no verification model a head-to-head contest does not already have.