Personally, I don't really believe that the player Valenok is cheating (though it can't be ruled out), it's just that if a person plays at an average level or lower, searching for logic in their actions is sometimes pointless; you can't always find it there. For example, he took the conservatory (the one in the screenshot), then cast DD, saw that there was somewhere to jump, and just went there on a whim. He got lucky once; next time he might not.

Although generally speaking, his actions as a whole are far more suspicious (including ignoring non-secondary resources). Although again, why would someone with such obvious tells contact the AC.

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Albertas, you should probably learn how to play first, and then you can evaluate whether it was possible to play like that without knowing the map or not.

Specifically to Vik:

Jumping over the rocks to the lift is a reasonable action; I could easily have done that myself. The goal here is clear — break the chain, catch the father on the move, disrupt the opponent's plans, etc.

But ! Going toward the Dragon Utopia is a heavily negative move (if you can't see the Dragon Utopia). Running across the wilderness when there are unexplored roads is not very strategic at all, and running the father across the wilderness where "everything has already been stolen before us," and without prior scouting on top of that, is complete nonsense. Or a cheat. A normal move here would be either to continue along the road or portal home.

You seem to admit that jumping to the opponent is understandable, but it's unclear where it is written on the map that everything in the treasury has allegedly already been stolen. On the mini-nostalgia template, a player has three treasury zones. If the opponent isn't demonstrating particularly strong play, it's reasonable to assume that one of them is either uncleared or only just being explored. But portaling home while having an imp with 1000+ and money for buyouts is indeed a strictly negative move.