In regards to this this sport.

A great and fantastic sport, no doubt. I love it.
But take a look at "World Rankings". Notice anything unusual?

The list, look at the list and think about the fact that the sport makes you basically run in jungles / swamps / bushes / forests, constantly. You probably wouldn't want to do that in let's say Canada where you could meet some wild bear, wouldn't you?
In that sense it makes sense that there's only EU countries.
And not all of them, like for example you couldn't ask in Poland to run in a forest with a map and compass when they don't have any forests left to speak of.

Only NZ and Australia are 2 countries that I see in that list that are not EU. Idk much about NZ.

But Australia? Of all places? Yeah take a map and a compass and go run in that swamp/bush/jungle/forest over there. There's definitely nothing that could kill you there.

It's just strange to me, to have this sport in Australia of all places.