I'm going to ignore the comments about f2p and focus on the 22-1 side of things.
Without discrediting the amount of work Apex as a collective have put into their p2p game, I have considered the past year of prepping to be some of the weakest in terms of skill level in my time playing. FOE have been bad at p2p for about a year, FI/IR/SUP's historical weirdness about preps, eop never being a clw capable clan....Apex was and is the clan willing to go the distance(in p2p clw at least), and while I respect that there have been no clans actively trying to put the work in to improve themselves.