It's the old game that he's trying to preserve. It's time to move on to the new game. When the landscape shifts beneath you, its very low probability that the existing structures on the landscape are a good fit for the new landscape, and the structures on the new landscape must be rethought from first principles.

He did move to a new game, which is what confirmed they'd been cheating.

Pretty funny - cheating so bad that even a blind man can see it.