Yeah thats because Nexuiz does use an other way to get bots working.
I have not yet done it myself but it seem you will have to load your map into Nexuiz, enable the way point editor mode (g_waypointeditor 1) and then you can add way points with g_waypointeditor_spawn and i think later you need to do g_waypointeditor_relinkall and g_waypointeditor_saveall to save finally save them .. Do not worry about the long names, you can use tab to complete those long names.
As bots were changed again and again for Nexuiz (think the current ones are the 4th different type

) the current way point system is not described anywhere. Or did i miss anything?