Table trying to store nil when told not to

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  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!

    I want a table “playertable” to store the current players that are sitting

  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

    It keeps telling me that I am trying to store a nil value, even though the 2 players that got printed are obviously not nil!

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  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?

    I’m not even sure how to fix this, I just simply have no idea as the error itself makes no sense to me

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Player1 = seat5.Occupant
			Player2 = seat1.Occupant
			Player3 = seat7.Occupant
		    Player4 = seat2.Occupant
			Player5 = seat4.Occupant
			Player6 = seat3.Occupant
			Player7 = seat6.Occupant
			Player8 = seat8.Occupant         --getting each player from their given seats
			local playertable = {}
			local playerseat = {}
				if Player1 ~= nil then
					plr1 = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Player1.Parent)   --getting character from each player to display it
					print(plr1.Name)
				end
				if Player2 ~= nil then
					plr2 = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Player2.Parent)	
					print(plr2.Name)
				end
				if Player3 ~= nil then
					plr3 = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Player3.Parent)
					print(plr3.Name)
				end
				if Player4 ~= nil then
					plr4 = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Player4.Parent)
					print(plr4.Name)
				end
				if Player5 ~= nil then
					plr5 = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Player5.Parent)
					print(plr5.Name)
				end
				if Player6 ~= nil then
					plr6 = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Player6.Parent)
					print(plr6.Name)
				end
				if Player7 ~= nil then
					plr7 = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Player7.Parent)
					print(plr7)
				end
				if Player8 ~= nil then
					plr8 = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Player8.Parent)
					print(plr8)
				end
			
			if plr1 ~= nil then                     --Saving the characters in a table to not use the y variable; OUTDATED METHOD
				table.insert(playertable,plr1)  --Where the problem occurs, which makes no sense to me as plr1 is nil, which means the table shouldn't insert anything
			end
				if plr2 ~= nil then
				table.insert(playertable,plr2)
			end
				if plr3 ~= nil then
				table.insert(playertable,plr3)
			end
				if plr4 ~= nil then
				table.insert(playertable,plr4)
			end
				if plr5 ~= nil then
				table.insert(playertable,plr5)
			end
				if plr6 ~= nil then
				table.insert(playertable,plr6)
			end
				if plr7 ~= nil then
				table.insert(playertable,plr7)
			end
				if plr8 ~= nil then
				table.insert(playertable,plr8)
			end

The only ones getting printed are Player8 and Player6 as they are the only ones sitting. I have no idea how or why even after being told that if the player is not nil, dont save him, the table is trying to save Player1, Player2… and so on
Edit: Setting the plr1 to plr8 values to nil at the beginning doesn’t help

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