What does this mean on Poker Stars?

[Michael]

For Aug. 18, for four different tournaments, there were the following names registered in each tournament over an hour prior to when registration was open to the general public: #1FaN$#1Fan, Melicious, WildFreak, YankeeinPA. All four
names were in each of the following tournaments at the same time and were all preregistered for Tournament #'s: 57898506, 57898517,57898525,57898531. So, are
these BOTs? Are they house players? Why all four in the exact same tournaments all prior to the opening of registration?

[FourthWin]

Strange, but possibly satellite winners. Huge coincidence, but those things happen among 100,000 plus individuals.

[Fermion5]

wild freak is no bot.

[Michael]

These were $5 and $2 buy-in tournaments.

[Greg Miller]

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names were in each of the following tournaments at the same time and were all preregistered for Tournament #'s: 57898506, 57898517,57898525,57898531. So, are
these BOTs? Are they house players? Why all four in the exact same tournaments all prior to the opening of registration?

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Why would PokerStars give bots any special preregistration privileges? The fact that they were preregistered seems like strong evidence that none of them are bots.

[SmartBugger]

Probably nothing. Maybe pstars is testing things out. They are always working out bugs. May also be pstars employees or some VIP benefit (I know supernovas can register first for some events, may apply to all events).

[Jiganti]

They are bots. Didn't you know that bots can autoregisterfor any tournament they want, even if it's just "announced"?