Is there any other ways of making this AFK button work or how can I fix this ?

I have already made everything and im not asking someone to just plain out give me the code but what ive tried is taking the humanoidrootpart away from the player and putting it in lighting right before the round starts and it still teleports the player to the map. I also tried putting a value inside a player to check if they have a vale of 1 which would mean they are AFK.

This is my games main script.

local repilcatedstorage = game.ReplicatedStorage
local status = game.ReplicatedStorage.InfoValue
local mapstorage = game.Workspace.mapStorage

while true do
	
while game.Players.NumPlayers < 2 do
 status.Value = 'There needs to be 2 or more players to begin'
 repeat wait(2) until game.Players.NumPlayers >= 2
end

for i = 90,0,-1 do
 status.Value = 'Intermission '..i
 wait(1) 
end

_G.gameplayers = {}
for i, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do

if v then
 table.insert(_G.gameplayers, v.Name)
end

end

local mapsinserverstorage = game.ServerStorage:GetChildren()
local chosenmap = mapsinserverstorage[math.random(1, #mapsinserverstorage)]
chosenmap:Clone().Parent = mapstorage
status.Value = 'Round Beginning!'
wait(3)
local spawns = chosenmap:WaitForChild('Spawns'):GetChildren()
for _, player in pairs (game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
	if player and #spawns > 0 then
 		local torso = player.Character:WaitForChild('HumanoidRootPart')
  		local allspawns = math.random(1, #spawns)
  		local randomspawn = spawns[allspawns]
-- This right here is what I tried but still spawned the player into the map.
if game.Players.LocalPlayer.AFK.Value == 1 then
	local torso = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character:WaitForChild('HumanoidRootPart')
	torso.Parent = game.Lighting
	wait(1)
end

		
   		if randomspawn  and torso then
   			table.remove(spawns, allspawns)
   		torso.CFrame = CFrame.new(randomspawn.Position + Vector3.new(0,2,0))
local gun = game.ReplicatedStorage.Handgun
local newgun = gun:clone()
newgun.Parent = player.Backpack

		end
	end
end

for i = 120, 0, -1 do
	if i == 0 then
		status.Value = 'Round over!'
		break
	end

	wait(1)
	if #_G.gameplayers == 1 then
		for i, v in pairs(_G.gameplayers) do
			if v ~= nil then
				status.Value = v..' is the winner!'
				game.Players[v].leaderstats.Points.Value = game.Players[v].leaderstats.Points.Value + 50
				--game.Players[v].leaderstats.Exp.Value = game.Players[v].leaderstats.Exp.Value + 50
				break
			end
		end
		break
	else 
		status.Value = i..' seconds remaining!'
	end
end
mapstorage:ClearAllChildren()
wait(5)
end

From the looks of your script, I don't see anything that teleports the player- so we're probably missing a bunch of stuff from other scripts that we'd need to correctly answer this. But I'll try to answer your question as best as possible.

Somewhere, you have a script that is teleporting players to the map when the game starts. If you move the player before that happens, it won't affect anything, the teleport will still go through. The only thing you can do here (as you said) is to have some sort of variable that you check to see if the player is afk. A number value with 0 for playing and 1 for afk would work perfectly fine, but wherever your script is teleporting players you need to make sure you have a check for that number value as well.

Add a string value or something like that to the player. Have the afk button change that value to "afk" or "ak". When the round starts, have it check each players afk value to see if they are afk or not.