i don't know. i just saw the movie "idiocracy" and i wonder how many of all the basketball fans in the u.s. could actually, you know, play this game. i know they can jump up and down rythhmically, and paint blue letters on their emaciated chests, that is, when they are not turning their bodies into billboards for mom and metallica and da boyz in da hood, but i wonder how many can, you know, follow a text-based strategy game where there are no 360 degree dunks.
i don't know. this is a great, vast country, with well over 300 million people, so i suppose it is not impossible to find 20,000 people that do anything (within reason -- i doubt if we graduate 20,000 PhDs in the sciences in a decade), so i can see a day where this game reaches that level in the u.s. -- but we still won't rule bb-land, and will complain about the all advantages the little countries (i.e. the rest of the world) get.