I've watched mainly three esports over the years. Warcraft 3, starcraft 2 and counter-strike. Best player ever in wc3 is Happy(Russian), sc2 is Serral(Finnish), cs2 is Astralis(all danish team). USA does seem to have solid players in many things but in the things ive watched its always Europeans that can match or sometimes exceed Koreans where USA doesnt seem to be able. Americans seem to be good at speedrunning games though which takes high intelligence.

EU/Russia has been the most dominant in multiplayer FPS gaming since the beginning. I'm talking about the shareware release of Quake in the mid 90s on dial-up. These guys are on the level of the extreme top of that esport. I wrote earlier about Rapha still being able to defeat these guys at times but the pure community, rivalvry and sheer talent these guys in Europe display is incredible imho. I only mention Quake as it's the highest skill ceiling game in the world to me besides something like Chess. It's *the* definitive First Person Shooter and is simply known as a game you will spend 5-10 years just to get anywhere. Europe though purely because of low ping times, has an amazing competitive scene within esports. It's a known fact that 90% of chat will support EU in a "EU vs NA" match purely because of past stats. But don't get me wrong that American's aren't the best, because Rapha is a freak of nature and also represents the esport so hard I would consider him ambassador of Quake if such a thing existed 😂