if a bot can submit after a game has started, so can a human

That should have been the ideal case, but because that didn't happen, it was annoying to most users. I can personally confirm you it happened to me twice. One time my team was not accepted at 09 seconds but the bot's was in the right next or a few games later.

Just a day before the final day of the season the bot submitted at 06 seconds which counted and it didn't count for me at 06 seconds which in the end turned out to be the title decider. So that is UNFAIR. All the evidence is on the chain.