Noticed February 2017 HoF has been finalized and Palacio is not Rank #1 as he should be.
From the stats it appears pretty clear that Zain(Luft) and Mzlogs pushed together for Luft to be Rank #1.
These were the last games on Zain's (Luft's) nick (he won 5-0 against mzlogs, which is to be expected since he is a far better player than mzlogs), but 3 of these 5 games were shorter than 3 minutes:
But on Mzlogs stats it can be seen that Luft seemingly gave wins to Mzlogs, prior to being pushed to Rank #1:
In these games (on Little Big Lake) it seems that Luft didn't even bother making a War Factory:
As you can see from this screenshot, Luft jut made 2 Refineries in a row and didn't even bother mining the Gems on the cliff:
There's no damage marks on the ground so no building has been killed yet, which proves that Luft went 2 Refineries instead of building a War Factory, which does not make any sense as the game started with $10k.