Potentially, but I once tried something absurd with Empires (like 1920x640 or something) and it just fisheyed really bad. I don't know exactly how far you can push it with source before it starts to do shit like that, but it is potentially worth a try. I'll test it out next time I'm home on my main PC.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Field_of_View well its marked as cheat, so its no option anyway. i played q3 at a fov of 120. looked shit and completely distorted but helped alot - i fully understand why it got marked ...
Bots don't know how to create avatars. Somebody manually created that account and then set it on auto pilot.