This submission deserves more attention that it is getting!
I don't buy the "not moving" part either. If they were using NN, then there's no reason they'd include / train connections to scores - only to current environment. NN with any kind of randomisation added between games (to get out of local maxs) would not stand still either.
TL;DR - screenshot is not a proof, ...chan boards are not reliable news services.
Computational intelligence / nature inspired computing tends first of all to reveal flaws in the problem statement.