I highly doubt people are botting Gukumatz. It seems like such a complete waste, especially since most 'claim bots' work by synchronizing and staggering the claims of a large number of people. One person running a bot isn't going to outclaim an attentive player.

Losing claim sucks. It happens to all of us sometimes. Sometimes it happens a lot back to back. That doesn't mean the competition is botting. I'm a hardcore player, but I have absolutely no intention of risking my account using bots; especially over something like Gukumatz. That's just plain dumb.
It maybe dumb but if the bot is on their pc and using it means they lock others out of that NM on the 4-5 claims they want in a row you think they aren't firing it up? As for risking their accounts, well so many did it on HNM i don't think anyone is really worried about that.