Thanks to Olawale Ibrahim for participating in the FORCE 2020 competition, so now we have a solution in Python and sklearn that attains the highest score on the blind test.
Link to the writeup: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VuXv09yvDMz_5vzbBbcfQz9E6gWoSC2FcA9FHTDY-K4/edit
Link to the LinkedIn post