1) Rules are rules. If he’s ineligible, he’s ineligible. period.
2) However, since he used his father’s email to register, I don’t see why ESPN doesn’t take the least PR-damaging move and declare the father the winner, with the wink-and-a-nod that the father actually submitted the entry and just had his kid make the picks. Unless there’s a legal issue I’m not aware of, that is.
I can’t believe that adults of both sexes are whining and equating “lack of age” with cheating.
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That’s quite a stretch.
That was the most obvious solution to me as well.