Cheating is not allowed actually.. and API doesn't give you the information it shouldn't. The goal is creating a strong AI players (not necessarily human-like) that win without cheating.

It's restarted after every 10 games and does offline for like 2 minutes intentionally. Btw, it had 270 viewers few minutes ago - that's the most viewed Brood War steram on TeamLiquid and most viewed of all the streams on HitBox.tv ;)

Some of the bots played a bit on ICCup around ranks C-D or so. They still lose to professionals at this time.

Dont worry. It's been around since 2011 and I'm not planning to leave it.

Nope, that's not allowed. I guess it's just the supply of enemy units it has seen so far. There's only one thing that bots have access to and humans don't - unique Unit IDs. Nut that doesn't help much.