Any players outside of europe and north america?

Well - it's short term for Britney Spears.
And who wants to get called like that?

;-P

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As mentioned above, TONS of Australian folks and the Japanese guys had their own Cup [Link above].
I've also seen Kiwis (New Zealand folks), one or two Mexicans iirc, a guy from Venezuela, Estonia ... ...
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and on
and on
and on
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so yes, not only EU and NA folks are playing.