I suspect some people are able to see orders. People with a huge 1v1 win % and they play the same way. They stall EVERY TIME after like turn 3, waiting for me to put in my orders. They'll wait until like 5 seconds are left if I also wait. Even when they have trivial decisions that take 15 seconds to decide and input. What other reason is there to do that?
Yeah he's good, but as Billy Walsh said, he plays like everyone else with those win-rates. They just end up stalling after they realize they lost and go back to farm noobs.
One time at least 5 players joined the Autogame at ONCE. Weird circumstances butI happen to know Rasputin was one of them, so at least he doesn't stick to just the RoR team games.
I noted that Rasputin creates own games and since he do that continuously, I hesitated to join his games, as I expect that he is at home at these games (usually manual distribution is set, can't remember if no luck cyclic order is locked or not), so in advantage over people who join.
As stated above, cheating is possible, but only if he has alt in opposite team, or if settings are done in such way that they don't allow freedom in expansion (I played one such game, and game creator made only 5 possible starting positions and invited 20 people - one of my first games I played).
ROR is the most played map, save ladder Earth maps, and moves are on such maps easy to predict, so one must outwit opponent rather than pure expansion, and that is what I expect that game creator on higher level has in mind when creating the game - nobody will create game with setting where he feels bad or is not familiar with consequences of bad first turns.
Save Rasputin, I noted few other players that create games with settings that are suit for their way of playing, so they end better than players who randomly join such games. So, if you think Rasputin is cheating, invite him to same map, but do settings adapted to your way of playing and see result. If you win, then Rasputin is not that good in different settings, but that doesn't mean he is cheating.