Sucks that it looks like Acecody dropped his team after the game.
Somehow I beat Minnesota with my team playing straight up without the cheat in our first matchup. He didn't get any successful blocks which helped, otherwise I'm sure he would have beat me. But, I think I am in agreement with LuckyNumber at this point. Everyone should just play the Minnesota games by his rules.
He's definitely getting inflated wins against the AI too, but at least it wouldn't be as maddening watching the direct matchups :).