i so far have whichbot and rcbot installed. the problem is the game will only let me create one bot, saying the maximum number of players has been reached. However, i set the max players to 20. How come this is so?

your in won right (refering to your previous topic). for some reason the max players in the normal window doesn't work, but in advanced options when starting a lan game, theres another max players setting. change that to twenty, and your good to go. if your still in steam, i can't help u

try setting:
mp_limitteams 15

or some really high limit. This will allow the teams to be uneven and let you add more bots than you have real players.